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Bathroom installation query: Walls - ceramic tiles Floor - 20mm Wedi board + cable heating element + ceramic tiles. Question: Should I tile the walls first then install the floor, or should I do the floor first then tile the walls? Or does it make no difference? Advice would be appreciated.

Excellent! :-)) As regards PRV, mine also dripped during the summer. The drips came out of the discharge pipe outside. Various people told me I needed a new PRV, which I fitted myself quite easily (whole thing, not just the innards) - but it still dripped from the pipe. Then, a local guy...

Woops, sorry Zipper. My bl**dy internet access packed up. Tiscali decided to change my login details without telling me. Anyway, thanks for your response. I did a bit of research (someone else's PC) and found that most of the "non-operation" faults that occur with Zanussi machines of whatever...

Help! Came back from holiday over Christmas and when I press 'green' start/pause button, it bleeps but nothing else happens, regardless of which programe is selected. I've cleaned out fluff filter, checked water supply to valve, and checked connections between the "controls" PCB and the...

As I understand it, Part H requires soil vent pipe stack to be 900mm above nearest opening window. In my case, the soil vent pipe will emerge through the roof near to (about 800mm but not quite sure yet exactly how far from) a new opening Velux window. If I make the stack 900mm high it will (a)...

mlh07 if you're still bothering to read this: Get a couple of quotes for a correctly designed system giving you the features that you want - not what the plumber wants to fit (because he gets a good discount on a particular combi boiler) or what he thinks you want (because he hasn't asked you...

OK, what about the various people around here (elderly, B&B activities, those with children) who want to retain an airing cupboard? Plumber comes along, recommends combi as best solution and hey presto, no airing cupboard, because the plumber didn't bother to find out the cutomer's needs. We...

Now, now. Calm down, girls. George B'well is correct in one respect. I might not be a fully qualified plumber, but I happen to have a lot of customers who have been misled into the perceived benefits of combis, resulting in me modifying things to give the customer what he/she wants (e.g. an...

Megaflow (or similar) every time for anything larger than a retirement bungalow. Each of my 3 kids have combis (and 2 children) and their systems are rubbish: low HW flow rates, inconsistent temperature, wasting loads of water waiting for the hot to come through, physically large size of...

There's more to this than meets the eye, what with technicalities of "buffering limitations", "chase-recording", "bit-rates", and all sorts of other difficult-to-understand terms, but thanks to your comments and excellent link to AV forum (which I hadn't found before) I've made a decision: I'm...

Guys, brilliant. Thanks. Exactly what I wanted: some genuine experience. I will research the links you gave in more detail. As far as giving up telly is concerened, that's a no-no. Even the dog would lynch me! At the end of the day, I just want to watch (and record) the basic channels - at...

Anyone out there had experience of DVD and digital TV recording? Any digital TV buffs out there?? I have a good quality analogue telly which I do not want to replace. Trouble is, we go digital on 8th April. Do I: (a) buy a set top box for the TV and a Sony HXD HXD890 DVD/HDD recorder (with...

We had same query 2 years ago: 1950s house, standard chimney - with kink, used previously with no apparent faults. Decided to line it anyway, just in case, and very pleased we did. Unlike a standard brick chimney, the metal liner heats up very quickly when you light the fire, with immediate...

Is there any real performance difference between the latest USB2 rated extension cables, and older USB1.1 cables?

Q1. Is it possible to make a walk-in shower former (for timber floor)? (Must surely be cheaper than buying ready made version). Q2. If so, how? Q3. Is it practical or even sensible to make one's own shower former?

Excellent. Local Maplin has exact match - even to the bolt on the end that fixes it to the motor - for £3.96. I'll pick one up tomorrow, and all things being equal, be up and running for Christmas. Why do I need it for Christmas? Because me and my offspring are doing a "Boxing Day Sea Walk"...

Hmmmmm... Thanks for that. Now I'm faced with the dilemma of whether it's worth shelling out 30-40 odd quid for a capacitor (as quoted on various spares websites) plus an hour of my valuable time, only to find that something else goes wrong,...or... by a new machine for £150 with a 2 year...

Motor won't start on its own unless you manually twiddle it to get it going. Everything works fine until it reverses direction, then it won't start again unless you twiddle the motor shaft. Disconnecting the drum drive band makes no difference: you still have to twiddle the motor shaft to get...

The problem here is that the pointy bit has a sort of knuckle on it, rather than a straight point, and that gets in the way when you try and scribe around difficult sections. Hence the need for on older style with straight point (which reaches the parts other compasses cannot reach).