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I think it's a great pity that the older, leak free, siphon flush systems have now been eliminated from all new toilet installations. Siphons went out of favour when water companies succeeded in getting cistern volumes reduced significantly in a bid to save water. The reduced volume meant that...

I agree with terryplumb. The fact that if you run the HW for long enough it does get properly hot indicates that the flow around the HW tank heating circuit is slower than it ought to be, which suggests the motorised valve in this circuit is not opening fully some of the time. The Honeywell...

If you can get access to the base of the cistern where the fill valve connects to the feed pipe (it looks from your picture that you can) then no, you don't have to remove the cistern. You will have to drain it of its water, though, which means turning off the water feed, flushing the toilet...

If it's sold new then it has to be serviceable, otherwise take it back for a refund. If it's a valve already in use but with a fault, then you need to describe the fault before we can advise on repair or replacement

No wall plugs are, as the name suggests, for fixing screws into masonry walls. I don't think they'd actually work in chipboard.

If you've already drilled holes in the chipboard to accommodate the plugs then the screws won't bite into the chipboard. Your best bet now is to use butterfly cavity fasteners which spring out behind the chipboard.

Be careful when sourcing brass screws that you're not sold "brassed" ones. These are ordinary mild steel but covered with something that makes them look like brass and with a rip-off price to match!

I suspect you won't find a valve that matches your old one. As I previously said, the new valve you've got is designed to be pushed through the tank wall and secured by a nut outside, so you may have to remove you existing pipe that goes through the tank wall and substitute the new one.

I'm not clear how your existing old valve threads through the tank wall. The bit with threads on in your picture, which presumably connects to the water supply pipe, looks to be too short to go through the tank wall, be secured by a nut on the outside of the tank and then be secured to the water...

"Immersion heater not working properly switches on at wall both day and night timers green light on boiler is on.." I'm not clear why you are referring to the boiler when your question is apparently about your immersion heater. If, as is usual, the boiler heats the hot water cylinder via a...

One of the reasons brass fittings have shot up in price is because the price of copper has risen very sharply over the last year. Demand for copper has increased a lot - EVs, wind turbines and expansion of the electricity grid has led to highly increased demand. In fact there is some doubt...

But to get to the base nuts, the OP will have to take the toilet completely off the wall. The only way I can think of avoiding that is to see if you can prise the part of the mounting on top of the toilet far enough away from the toilet to get a saw or multi tool in to cut it off. The base nuts...

An alternative is to use a pipe freezing kit just upstream from the valve you want to change. You do of course need to drain the radiator first.

Yes you may get a coating of what looks like corrosion on brass or chromed brass. However, there is a phenomenum called "de-zincification" which certain water supplies have caused on brass fittings containing more than about 15% zinc, where the zinc preferentially leaches out of the brass...

Maybe grout is not the best sealant - you could use white silicone instead

At the risk of being pedantic, your flush is not via a siphon but instead is by the bellows operated flush valve, which is effectively just a flap at the bottom of the cistern which opens to flush and closes again to allow the cistern to refill.

It's good he is coming back to sort this out. As for "give it time to settle", that's akin to salespeople in clothes shops when you try on something that's obviously too big saying "it'll ride up with wear sir"!

I assume the batteries you replaced were in the thermostat-transmitter. This has a small icon in its display when it's calling for heat, and when this is on, the green pilot light on the receiver should be on also. If the icon on the transmitter isn't on, then it's a problem with that. If the...

Do you really need to remove the radiator to decorate? Is there enough room behind the radiator to use a suitably cranked small brush to paint the wall behind it (at least the visible part) It seems an awful lot of trouble to remove the radiator and you may well get leaks from the joints when...

The main part of the radiator appears to have just surface rust, but the bit where the valve tail screws in does look quite serious. I would be concerned about this leaking - it'll probably only be a weep at first, but I would get the towel rad changed reasonably soon. If you want to avoid...