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...Until you release the trigger on the washer, then the heater will overheat and cut out.

Does your wife's aunt use or even have an ADSL modem?

A Residual Current Circuit Breaker (RCCB) is also known a Residual Current Device (RCD). Were the electrics in your old house covered by a RCD? If not, the RCD may be reacting to a latent fault that may well have gone undetected in your previous house if the electrics were protected by MCBs...

A space saver waste kit may help. It adds a couple of extra bends, allowing the waste trap to sit flat against the wall at the back of the cabinet, freeing up the space under both sink outlets. Just trim the horizontal and vertical pipes to suit your requirements.

I once added a similar tapping to a replacement cylinder. It was the return for gravity circulation around a hot water loop feeding a bathroom on the other side of the house. It worked well too. Hot towel warmer and instant hot water in the bathroom without a pump (and warm floorboards the...

That is a cut or split in the hose, not a leak from a joint, so it isn't really repairable. A replacement hose will probably cost you less than a tube of leak sealer anyway.

I had similar probs with a courtesy light door switch on a Renault. The cheap 'n' cheerful plastic switch had fallen apart. Usual eye-watering sort of price for a replacement from a main stealer, but the local scrappy was happy to give one away. If it's a 'pick your own' yard, get one from the...

Have you considered kickspace heaters fitted under the kitchen units?

How about getting yourself a chrome plated brass sink or basin waste fitting. Drop it into the hole as a reducer, and fit the backnut underneath. Then mount your new mixer on that? Most of the brass ones have some form of grid at the top, but it should be relatively easy to remove with a...

You will need to fit a trap somewhere along the waste run, unless you want a washing machine that smells of .... er.... 'sewer gases'. The normal alternative to running the washing machine waste into the sink trap is to run a seperate 40mm waste behind / below the kitchen base units with an...

'Powerful' and 'Electric Shower' are terms that will never sit together comfortably in the same sentence. Limiting yourself to a 30 Amp supply is a mistake. That limits your choice to a maximum of 7 KiloWatt - about the weakest, weediest showers on the market. 10 KW units provide a...

It may be that your electrics were installed to an earlier edition of the wiring regs that were in force BEFORE running earth wires everywhere and bonding every bit of metalwork in sight came into fashion. Sometimes adding supplementary bonding to an electrical installation without FULLY...

£1 to a pinch of s*** says your nominal 40mm pipe isn't actually 40mm OD. and a chance to win your money back - another £1 says the hole won't finish dead on 50mm either. If the hole isn't looking dead square at the pipe run you'll be glad of a bit of clearance anyway.

The water level may rise with expansion, but the ball valve float doesn't move because the valve is already closed. The level just rises around the float. If the water level does drop, usually just through evaporation from the header tank in a healthy system, the float only has to drop a...

If it's supposed to be a thermostatic mixer, and the hot and cold feeds are reversed it will respond in about the way you describe. What boiler do you have? It wouldn't be the first time a combi boiler has been installed, but the bathroom cold feed has been left connected to an old gravity...

A common mistake is expecting the top and bottom rows of terminals of switches like your old one to correspond to the two switch units, but they usually don't. Have a close look at the back of the old switch and you will probably see a diagonal line moulded into the plastic, probably...

Some ignition circuits featurd a voltage dropping resistor in the coil circuit which was bypassed when the starter was cranking. The coil normally worked on about 6 - 8 volts, so there was enough reserve to allow for the voltage drop when the battery was cranking the starter. The resistor...

:!: Just a thought - Have you considered an inset caravan sink, set in a shelf mounted on drawer runners? IIRC they usually use flexible hosepipe for the waste outlet that you could drop into a washing machine waste trap. A couple of longish flexis should be able to take care of the water...

They shouldn't 'rust', but they may discolour, or the lacquer finish may discolour through contact with chemical laden moisture wicked up from the plaster or paint. Most fitting manufacturers used to recommend allowing plaster and paintwork to fully dry / cure for several weeks before...

If you can get your head and a tape measure in the cupboard under the sink you should be able to measure, or at least get a close 'guesstimate' at the size of the cutout in the worktop. Armed with that and the overall measurements of your existing sink, you should be able to select a...