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Hi Had this boiler fitted last year. Not the combie but a system boiler attached to the conventional CH and HW system. YOu can now tell I am a novice! - Great through winter. Now I want hot water and NO CH. My understanding is that I could turn off the CH and have HW only, so when I turn...

Hi Due to a cock up I am left with a rather large gap between my shower tray and my first tile. Dont ask how or why, I just have!! The gap is approx 12-15mm; too big to grout I think and too small to fit a cut tile - I think? Is there a waterproof filler, white in colour that I could...

Bloody Hell! Just finsihed installing a new close coupled bog - leaks! It looks like its leaking from the main connection between pan and cistern and possibly via joining bolts too. Also, and this is the pain, between the outlet and the soil pipe. As slightly different bog I invested in...

I have aquired an easy plumb tray 760 x 900. Its on 5 legs and is proving difficult to get level in all directions. Anyway, no instructions with the tray, but it has a curved side panel to allow access to plumbing. So, how does it fit and stay put? Obviously you cant allow the tray to weigh on...

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I'm thick! I'm fitting new basin taps in the bathroom and thinking of using a flexible push fit tap connector to link the taps to the 15mm hot & cold supply pipes. Screwfix appear to do a range, but which fits the basin taps? Surely all basin taps are the same thread?

Hi My local plummers merchant gave the Mrs. out shopping for me a 15 to 8mm reducing kit for the 15mm trv, as no 8mm trvs available. Of course he did not explain how it fits and I am afraid it aint obvious to me. I have two brass turned parts and long one and a very short one. I have an...

So I take it the timer is OK to use? Is there a max W for the element I should use? Also, how do I know if the bonding strips are actually all connected and doing the job they should? Is there some kind of test? B

HI, I am intending to install a wet towel rad with an electric heating elemnt for summer use. I know that the element needs connecting through a fused spur. I want to connect the element also to a timer so that I can control when its on. My local electrical suppiler sold me a timer and the...

Why do most / all shaver sockets have both 230 and 110 output? What use is the 110V :?:

its really nice when you get honest, straight forward, helpful advice. Thanks Corgiman - you're a gent!

Hi. My DIY book tells me that there should be about a 10 degree difference between the flow and the return pipes on a rad. I have a rad that has no hand valve covers on top so I dont really know which is the lockshield and which is the regulator. My rad thermometers tell me that the...

This might help. My dad once owned a small boat that had a table attached to a pole. You could riase it to any height and lower it at it bcame part of a double bunk. When clamped at the height you wanted it was very secure. The boat was a Pegasus, made by Pegasus yachts in Oulton Board...

Hi. My lounge floor is very cold, feet become icy cold at this time of year. I've pulled the carpet up and some floorboards too. I was staggered to find that there is about 4 feet between the joists and the ground, and by God was it cold down there! What this means is I can get in and...

Hi all, Often the floor area of my lounge is cold, and I mean cold. It can be that your ankles and noticeably cold to the enxtent sometime we sit with our feet up, not because we like to but because its b****y cold! The foloor is traditional timber on joists. There is underlay and...

Hi all, Often the floor area of my lounge is cold, and I mean cold. It can be that your ankles and noticeably cold to the enxtent sometime we sit with our feet up, not because we like to but because its bloody cold! The foloor is traditional timber on joists. There is underlay and carpet...

Just had a new boiler fitted. Outside wall tyrolean (i think), but now with a horrible ceement square in way of old boiler vent. Can I DIY tyrolean a repair or something like?

Hi Just changed lighting in kitchen and have 3 holes in plasterboard in way of old lights. I have rough filled holes, but now want to try and match the textured finish. Someone said its artex. Can I get "repair packs" to do this?

Hi Just fitted 16 downlighters - LV 50W. All are controlled via a 2 gang 400w dimmer - 8 on each gang. Dimmer gets warm and buzzes after prolonged use and does not control the dimming properly. One of the downlighters switches off for a while, again after prolonged use, them comes back on...