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Resurrecting this thread as I've re-removed the shower valve and remembered what the problem was. As you can see from the attached photo, after removing the valve, I'm left with pipes with nuts. The nuts are held captive by an olive. The pipes are 15mm, but the nuts are the wrong size /...

Thanks Terryplumb. No, this is a solid masonry wall unfortunately. I attached a pic of the valve in-situ with my original post, but can't take pics of the exposed pipework yet, as the shower is in daily use, so I don't want to dismantle it until I've got the replacement. Yes, confirmed...

Need a bit of help replacing an old leaking exposed shower valve, specifically finding something to replace it with. It's a round type of valve (old Bristan Pisa) rather than a bar-shaped valve, see attached pic. The inlet pipe centres appear to be about 155mm. I bought a new valve before...

Short & sweet. Thanks Woody.

Hi guys, Is precedent relevant in loss of light planning issues? E.g. If similar details with the same loss of light (or worse) exist in the immediately adjacent properties, would this be taken into consideration and the proposal therefore allowed on this basis? Thanks all.

Peter, did you find a solution to this? I have the same problem, and have searched and searched, but can't find anything.

No, you're right of course. And thanks for the tips. I think what I'm trying to say is that I've learnt over the past couple of days that boilers need to be at a certain pressure to run well, and that it can cause off problems if you try and run them below 0.5 bar. In my case, that low...

Guess what? I answered my own question! Hopefully this post can help someone else instead of me! I looked in the cupboard below the boiler and I found this in there, which connects to the "Cold" pipe. I turned this black tap on, and it started filling. The pressure is now at 1.3...

Hi, Sorry to ask dumb questions but I'm struggling. I have an old Worcester 230 boiler (c 1994 I believe). I have recently been having to bleed the radiators almost daily, and some searching around on the web suggested that this might be caused by low boiler pressure. I checked the...

Brilliant, thanks for the replies. So is the standard procedure to have the garage as uninsulated space, with the walls between it and the house insulated instead? I guess so, as garage doors are not famous for their insulating properties! In that case, the insulated walls between the...

Hi, I'm going to build an extension to include an integral garage, and I'm confused about the DPM detail. I understand that the garage FFL has to be at least 100mm below the FFL of the rest of the house. This means that the garage FFL will also be 100mm below the DPC in the walls. Am I...