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Spoke too soon as usual - now leaking from the seal between the basin and drain. I remember tearing my hair out on here 5 or 6 years ago when I fitted a new tap and drain to this sink, as I couldn't get it to seal. I'm no plumber, but a normal human being should be able to tighten a simple...

Aye trouble is, people like me don't know that (I do now :rolleyes:) - I imagine those pipes have been like that since the house was built in 1994, so you kind of assume things are all OK :sleep: All reassembled now with a new bit of pipe, isolating valve etc. Seems OK so far. On the up side...

Well, soaked up as much water as I could (some has already soaked into the chipboard cabinet - don't know how long the leak's been there FFS), and everything shut down for the night. SF in the morning for some 15mm pipe, and hope I can lash it all up again. Chances of getting a plumber this...

Thanks - yeah, already did that. But I think it's the hot one - just to be sure, can you confirm that the left pipe on a mixer is going to be the hot one please?

Yeah... thanks, I'd already turned them off, but the tiny spray just kept coming... soaking the place out of all proportion to its size. It has now finally stopped - I guess it must just have been the head above it, up to the tap. So the bathroom cabinet beneath the sink is probably ruined, but...

Just found the bathroom floor wet, and there seems to be a pinhole leak in one of the risers to the handbasin. My mind isn't at its best under pressure, so... is the left hand pipe normally the hot one to the mixer tap? It feels slightly warm, but the hot water hasn't been on today. So I...

Last year I spent a day pressure washing my paths, made of concrete flags, which were dark and slippery. It did a great job, but 5 minutes later (OK, a few weeks) they were as if I hadn't bothered. I've read through every thread I can find, and the popular answer seems to be bleach, which is...

Aye quite right, but this is a young mother, and realistically, unless I can make it REALLY easy (like a gauge), I'll be down bleeding the oil line again in a couple of months :cautious:

Thanks Andrew - well, I managed to get a refund for the gauge, but this is a charity job so I don't fancy lashing out on an expensive unit. I'll buy her a big long bamboo! There's a non-working Watchman on eBay for a few quid, and part of me thinks maybe take a chance on it just being the...

Ah, I see... that's the top of the tank, so is horizontal, but I was standing in an awkward place, so it just looks like it's sloped.

What's this thing? I don't suppose there's a 1½" hole under it perchance... Access is awkward (there's a fence in the way) and I didn't have a screwdriver, so couldn't investigate...

I bought this cheap gauge to help a friend out (I have a Watchman myself, but my generosity doesn't stretch that far), but can't figure out the best way to fit it. It has a threaded neck, but no kind of nut or anything to tighten from inside the tank. The instructions simply say it fits a 1½BSP...

Thanks everybody, I ended up watching a Youtube video, and loosened the Allen screw in the end of (8) above slightly - worked well, she has heat again :mrgreen:

Hi all, trying to help a single mother out. She let her oil tank run dry (lack of funds), and now it's locked out. She got a delivery of oil today, but it still won't fire up, even if she resets it. I'm assuming there's an airlock in the fuel pipe, and it needs to be bled? Unfortunately, though...

Thanks... do you mean here?

Morning everybody from icy N Ireland... it occurs to me that I might have to get access to the external water main stopcock, but the last time I did this was decades ago, and the big key thing I've had since then doesn't fit in the kind of cover I have at this house. Could anybody please tell...

Right, I see. OK think I understand things now - thanks so much for your help. Way I see it is, there's no happy ending either way - I don't think I could face having the frames dug out again and replaced. But I'll be phoning him tomorrow, and will report back when he's been to examine them.

Ah, they're called mullions, aren't they... I've taken a pic, but it's not easy to take a decent one with one hand. It’s actually a little more complicated than I’ve said – there are two windows, one he installed 2 years ago, and one on Thursday. I first noticed it on the new one late on...

Actually, what they do here in N Ireland is for crooks from Eire to get number plates made with typical random NI numbers, stick them on their builders’ vans etc in Dublin, speed freely, park in disabled spots, and drive through tolls without paying. So, I might choose TRZ4988, at random –...

Then I read that there can be internal and external lintels, so thought I'd better go outside and check that there's something above the actual windows... does this look like a steel lintel to you?