We are having a workshop area with wet UFH. Can the final screed be sealed and painted or is it too fragile to be used as the top floor covering?...
Bad news.... the new clear ones do blister. I've just changed one.
I've just discovered yet another leaking bottom flush pipe seal on a concealed Geberit cistern, which is especially annoying as we are about to...
You'll get 25% off the sewerage treatment part of your bill.
The way it works is that the family scrapes together the cash needed to send a husband or a child to the UK where they will earn prodigious...
Two wind turbines were standing on a hill and one said to the other: "Do you like pop music?" "Yes," replied the other, "I'm a huge metal fan!"
Ask the plumber to fit a drain cock at the lowest point in the system if there isn't one, for ease of use in the future.
Have you actually measured the temperature of the water at the tap? It should be around 60c.
Have you actually measured the temperature of the water at the tap?
Close the valves at both ends of the rads, loosen the fittings, open the bleed, drain the water, then close the bleed and lift the rad off its...
Fernox won't clear out blocked rads, it's just a soap that makes the water alkaline so that it doesn't oxidise the insides of steel rads. Sounds...
Apologies, I posted about this a couple of weeks ago and got one reply suggesting it's not a DIY job because air flow needs to be checked but the...
How do you know it's air and not hydrogen from internal oxidation of the steel radiators? Did you try the test somebody suggested a few posts up?...
Okay thanks, now I understand. I've identified the part and it costs something like £18, and having opened the control box it looks like a simple...
I haven't seen it yet as I'm at work but Mrs RR says the engineer has placed an "advisory" on the boiler because the plastic control box hinges...
Another groan. That's the typical unthinking jobsworth blame culture reaction. Anybody with half a brain can see that it's a lath & plaster...
Surely the simple answer is to get a cat?
Well I cleaned all the hairs out of the shower trap last night - disgusting job - and poured some bleach down the bath and sink wastes and this...
Why has it started doing this in the last few weeks? The trap gurgles as you shower and then the next time you enter the bathroom it stinks of...
When I did it for some rads I just wrapped the pipes in masking tape. I think it's because cold pipes can collect condensation even through...
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