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We have a Mira Excel mixer shower in our spare room. The max temperature seems to have recently stuck at lukewarm. It works fine between cold and lukewarm! The shower is rarely used. As a new cartridge looks like costing me around £100 I'm keen to know if there is something I might do to fix it...

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I need to disconnect the washing machine in my mother's house but one tap won't close properly. Mum's gone into a home and we're selling the house. The new owners will be sending the builders in to extend the kitchen rather than moving in so I only need to seal the connection. Can I get a cap...

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A friend had an oil leak in her Arga which has left a smell from the oil that got onto the concrete plinth. Is there anything that can be done to remove the oil/smell?

We flooded slightly in the recent deluge. The water didn't get above the door thresholds but appears to have risen around two of the soil pipes which go down into the floor. One of the pipes is easily accessible the other is buried in an external wall with an external blockwork protrusion which...

I've had some internal work done which involved removing a toilet. The builder left me with this plug in the soil pipe. I now want to put a sink unit here and connect the wastepipe where the plug is. What's the best way to do this?

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I've bought a ladder style radiator and a Danfoss RAS-D2 Combi valve set. I'm not sure about connecting the two together and the instructions for both skip this part. It looks as if the radiator has a parallel thread and the valve fitting is tapered. Do I need to put anything on the thread...

We've bought a house with many downlighters installed in the ceilings. We want to replace them but many of the holes have been damaged by previous removal and re-insertions. Some of them are considerably oversize or not round. What's the best way to repair these? Is there a way of making the...

Thanks, that's great.

Simple question; can I mix compression and welded waste pipe fittings? Are the pipe diameters the same? Some of the items (on Screwfix say) are marked as not suitable for use with one or other type.

OK, thanks for the advice.

We rather like the high pressure! But my wife can hardly turn the valve at the moment so I've got to do something. Is 3bar a reasonable pressure?

Our water company recently changed the source of our water in order to raise the pressure for those at the top of the village who had problems because of very low pressure. We are at the bottom of the village and the pressure, which is now 7.5bar, is too much for the two Mira Excel mixer valves...

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess if I make a tidy job in marine ply I can finish it with yacht varnish and forget the tiles! Seriously, why is a waterproof material necessary? If the tiles/grout/fillet leak won't I eventually get water down below? In this case the CU is directly...

First question - does anyone recognise these tiles and better still can tell me where to get some more? The colour on screen looks pretty accurate and they have slightly wavy edges. Secondly, I've had to remove the existing tiles because water had got underneath the tiles on the top of...

We have this small loo with copper heating pipes running around all four walls. They enter at A on the west wall and run around to B on the south wall, with a tee off at C. I need to move the tee to a new position at D and would also like to put isolating valves at E. Because the pipes run so...

Just to say thanks mapj - been away for a few days.

I'd already decided that the TLC Direct type would only be appropriate on an unplastered wall - the Saren ones look like an excellent solution. This assumes, of course, that I achieve a reasonably neat channel in both the plaster and block. From what I've read in this forum, that may be...