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Did you fit any isolation valves on the kitchen tap? Trouble is they are not designed to reduce flow and increases the water 'hiss'. I read somewhere that fitting a non return valve on the pipe underneath the tap would halt the 'shockwave' and stop the water hammer. Does anyone know if...

Wow, and I was just about to suggest if you had a large potted house plant with its rootball starting to rot!!! :D

Have you bled all the vent points in the airing cupboard? It will be trapped air somewhere. It takes a brave man to backfill his system untill it pours out of the F&E overflow!!

I read somewhere on a forum (maybe this one?) that these designer rads are very fussy about having the flow and return reversed, I'm sure this guy swapped them round and it worked. First try cracking open the union on the return and drawing some water off and see if that works. Ideal job...

How much of a mess has it made of your ceiling? Its the easiest job in the world for a plumber and will take all of 5 mins tell him. What a disgusting slob of a neigbour. :x :evil:

Of course this is a wind up! No one could be that illiterate!

Yes, lets not all jump on the op, there's alot of this on forums and many posters are ridiculed and almost slagged off by forum members who lets face it only have very basic facts and don't know the poster. Although a few cases the poster (not necessarily chuggypig) needs only type a few...

http://www.newteamshowers.com/ntpages/sfnPumps1.pdf/$FILE/ShowerForcePumps1.pdf Your shower pump instructions state that the pump must not be installed in a loft (know yours isn't) so for that reason it says nothing about air vents although it does sound like trapped air so maybe they wont go...

Hi chuggypig, sorry to hear of your problems. You say you've had 8 quotes for this job, what kind of price fluctuations did that bring on and how did the chosen installer fit into that? basically was he the cheapest? This lie he told you about the boiler falling off the back of a lorry...

I'm no flush expert but I would have thought it would weaken the flush.

Heat and short sharp shocks with a hammer are the answer here. If the cylinder is foam lagged then be careful with the flame, you may want the connect something to it and heat that instead thermal conduction will heat the joint. When its hot put your spanner back on and put pressure on it...

Hi elcaro sorrk to hear about the disaster, typical it should happen when you're away! I'm interested about the condition of the overflow, as a diy'er I'm no expert but can a plumber confirm that an overflow (if fitted) should actually carry away all the water and not just alert you to the...

One of these toilet plungers will sort it out, I have one and they are fantastic. http://www.bes.co.uk/ Search for item 17693.

Do all booster pumps come with a plug on the end? I have cut it off and hard wired it into a 5 amp FCU. I know Salamander are strict regarding warranty, I hope I haven't voided it?

As a curious DIY'er, what does 15/50, 15/60 mean?

I had this problem at our old house, the wall tilted back about 3 feet. I used plastic spacers of increasing thicknesses to pack out the wall bracket and then neatly siliconed it.

I've ordered a few bits from here recently and saved a fortune over merchants prices. An example is this fitting at £1.06 + VAT, I bought this recently from my local merchants for £7.45 inc VAT, I feel robbed now. Surely you plumbers can't buy basic stock cheaper at the merchants...

Are you talking about the PHEX Agile? I may turn the boiler iso's down to confirm, the landlord is likely to let this drag on for ages, he was told weeks ago and the problem has gotten worse.

While we were round at my mothers this morning her freind was there and she was telling me she's got a problem with her combi boiler. Its a Vokera and the pressure has to be topped up 4 times a day! I topped it up while I was there and a fair amount went in before the needle started to move...

Why can't you plumbers ever seem to cut a pipe straight and deburr?? :? :)