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Yes, the system water is still open vented but the hot water is now mains pressure with an expansion vessel. It meets the regulations here and in fact the plumbers merchants don't even stock parts for open vented plumbing.

Sometimes if plaster is stale it sets more rapidly than normal. I don't throw it out, I keep it for jobs like this, where you want the box to be firm before completing the wiring.

You could put a furniture cup under that foot and adjust the other foot to level.

Yes, it has a worm drive but the parts are metal and not stripped. The other machine does have a plastic gear that has stripped it's teeth but that is the main reduction gear for the chain drive sprocket.

Around 2018 I moved to Croatia but I had owned the house for a while as a renovation project. I designed and installed a solid fuel central heating system. It used pumped central heating with gravity hot water. That design was chosen so the hot water cylinder could act as a heat sink in the...

My Zanussi kettle. I live in a very hard water area and even when making instant coffee I use a tea strainer to catch the flakes of limescale. The spout of the kettle has a filter mesh but that quickly gets blocked, making it pour badly. If I use it with the mesh removed it boils for ages before...

I have an MTD electric chainsaw which I've had for about 10 years but has been slightly faulty for most of that time. It was just the plastic hose to the chain oil tank that was split but not an easy repair, as the whole machine has to be stripped to access the oil pump end of the pipe. I used...

Thanks for the reply. I think I know what happened now I've looked in the fusebox. There are relays and fuses for low speed and high speed fans. The low speed fuse was OK but the high speed one had blown. When it got hot enough for the high speed fan to operate there would be no fan because of...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did stir it for about 2 minutes. Since I posted the question I tried applying an extra coat of the yacht varnish to one of the pine internal doors which had already been varnished with this product. Again it has stayed tacky so I now think it is just a bad batch...

I have had my 2008 Chevrolet Spark for 11 years and it has been super reliable but on Wednesday it overheated on a hot day in a motorway traffic jam. I removed the thermostat, put in some water and I did complete my journey. I didn't think it was the thermostat but it was an easy thing to try...

I have a pine desk which I have had for 20 years or so. It was flat pack but I assumed it had some kind of matt varnish as it was not shiny. Over the years I realised it must have been bare wood as parts would get grubby looking. I finally got round to dismantling it, sanding off stains etc and...

I am thinking of changing from a woodburning cooking range with boiler to a pellet stove which will be in the utility room adjacent to the kitchen. House is a 3 bedroom bungalow. I can't afford a new pellet stove but have seen one secondhand, a Ferroli GN1 N05, maximum output: 58.1 kW. I...

I'm in Croatia and have done my bathroom floor with Sinteros vinyl flooring which I think is made in Poland. I also want to cover the plywood bath panels with the same vinyl. I initially did the end panel with double sided tape but it started falling off after a couple of days. It stuck to the...

Thanks, I tried "big red GTO " -Sinitta -he's -got. It did exclude the song I didn't want but failed to find the song I did want. I thought there was an advanced search facility but Google does not routinely offer it as an option.

Often when I try to search for something on Google the results I need are swamped by irrelevant stuff. This is partly because I'm from UK and the internet is largely USA populated. Is there a way to exclude certain results using keywords? For example, today I was trying to look up a song...

I found a UK supplier of these water heaters and asked the same question. They say the Ariston does include a pressure vessel. It could be that the one in my unit is faulty though. https://electricaldealsdirect.co.uk/water-heating/ariston-water-heaters.html

Not sure if anyone here has dealings with continental water heaters but here goes. I'm from UK but living in Croatia. I have no gas here but plenty of forests so I put in a woodburning central heating system. I used a UK type indirect cylinder for the hot water and the system was pumped CH...

My PC was full of building dust so I dismantled it and blew the parts clean with an airline. I thought everything on the motherboard was labelled and it mostly is but the single socket for the 4 plugs to HDD led, Power Led, Power button and reset button is confusing. It is right at the bottom of...

I posted recently about problems with a shower pump. One of the replies suggested that the hot water might be too hot for the pump. The water has been getting very hot lately so I tried turning down the immersion heater thermostat. The thermostat has never worked since then. The water gets...

The cold tank was sitting on the concrete floor of the loft, which I had thought should be adequate as the house has high ceilings. Today I raised it by about 0.6 m and I just tried the shower pump again. It made no difference, it still shut off after a short time. The water was still cold so it...