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I just had a quick look on Ebay - you can buy just the handle you broke, its called a key. Looks like a fancy radiator key. It's probably designed to break before the valve. In the meantime squirt a little wd40 over several hours to let it soak in. Then try your radiator key, back and forth a...

How on earth was that awning put up with a whole row of gas boilers discharging under it?

Steel pipes are threaded at the ends and joined by screwing joints onto them. You'd have to unscrew it at a joint then screw on a threaded f cap or threaded m plug.

My son just bought a house with the boiler in the loft and its 14 years old - it is a pain. A filling loop and pressure guage has been installed in the old airing cupboard where all the pipes come down - that helps to keep an eye on the pressure. A good point is that the water is clean up there...

Any switch needs to be outside the bathroom ( or a pull switch). The outside switch could be a time switch. I think the thermostat is internal to prevent overheating, no room temperature control as such.

You could look at the electric meter to see the increase in wattage.

A full tank flush creates more pressure so causes leak. When you take the cistern off you will find the the large round doughnut shaped washer that seals between the two.

i.e. If the hot tank is over-heated it can set up a convection current to the cold tank depending on the pipe runs. This would explain the warmed cold tank.

Try running the shower cold and listen. Then try with hot water. If you get the sound with hot only then its plastic expansion sound - like gutters whenthe sun comes out.

Give it a light tap with a hammer to get it to bite.

Just stripped one of our bedrooms, it was pink roses ! We are now going for plain emulsion but i think will need lining paper to even things up as there are various colours and plaster underneath. Is traditional lining paper best or the Fibreliner paper ? As its a small room cost is not an...

Make sure you can turn the gas off at the meter in case you do have a leak ! The cooker connector turns off inside as you press in and twist the outlet part.

Once you have cut the cast iron, measure the internal diameter 80, 85 or 90mm and get the connector of the size and length required. Search for "cast iron toilet connector". As the outlet slopes downward, you mayneed another flexi like the one you have.

Toilet connectors fit inside the cast iron pipe so the old collar can be cut off. You will probably need a new connector of the right size. Angle grinder will throw up dust. We did one with a hacksaw - we got a packet of new blades and me and my son took shifts of 10 minutes or so. Took 2-3...

Try the bubble test on the valve - soap bubbles will show up the leak. As a test, you could put a cap on it to see if that fixes it or slows it down. You can change the insert on the shraeder valve if its the same as a car valve - have to de-pressurise the system. Get some valve inserts from...

Push a long strip of carboard or newspaper in there for a couple of days to see if it gets damp.

Go get an electrician !

Female to Female BSP Coupler 3/4" Brass Socket - Coupling - if you have room !

Could be the bottle trap can' t cope with the flow so backs up causing the leak higher up. I prefer P or S traps (so called u bends) which don't block so easily. Try cleaning the bottle trap just improve things while you are looking for the seal.

We had smart meter from SSE a year ago. It is SMETS2. Switched to EDF and they can' t read it! I give them meter readings when needed but i can read them off the remote display , gas & electric. In fact smart meters are more difficult to read manually because you have to cycle through the...