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It didn't occur to me that / that could be the issue! I'll fork out for another one then :)

This may be time for a new machine I am not sure. . . My 12 year old trusty WFO2840 stopped heating water a year or so back and I replaced the heating element in the bottom with a genuine Bosh item. It worked for a few days without a problem and then started to wash cold again. The new...

I found out the tap is a Damixa unit with the £108.00 cartridges from Lunns. So now I am planning to replace the entire unit with a 1901 Bristan article at around £95 - offering 15L pm at 0.2 bar this should be perfectly adequate. Thanks once more.

So I went to a few plumbers merchants today (as I was passing) and they all said that kitchen monoblock cross head taps can be a little bit tricky to revive and I should contact the manufacturer for a new cartridge. I was wondering if that's cobblers in the forums opinion - and if it is valid...

Thanks for the answers - I'll check out the reviver's - cheers.

I have two taps that do this and after 12 years I am fed up with taking them apart and putting them back together - what the heck is the cause ?? The two taps are on gravity fed HW - so they get opened all the way on each use, to get the required flow. Since our cold water pressure is high...

Yes you are right - it's not particularly cheap and there are the associated maintainence issues - but I am happy as larry! Thank you so much Steve - you star!

Hi forum, I am after something so do the following. In my living room I will exclusively use lighting by lamps. Having just re-plastered, I really don't want to chase it all out to wire up what I am after. I realise I have overlooked this in planning somewhat. I want to be able to activate...

Thanks for that.

I have spent a massive amount of time and energy, (4 months) painstakingly installing a solid oak strip floor. Which is as we speak curing the top coat of Polyx. In a few days I'll buff and wax it. (Just to make it leathal you understand). I am really keen to cover parts of it up while the...

Thanks Mac... Another question... I appear (now the light has changed) to have cocked up some of the edge sanding. (Followed some poor advice from the sanding delivery guy) I can see a few scratches (Only in direct sunlight at the right angle, not in artificial light). I have returned all the...

Hi folks, I have just completed sanding my new oak floor with a Trio. The finish is superlative I have to say! I have wiped the whole thing with a soft old 'T' shirt which seems to have pulled out most of the 120 grade dust that the vacuum system on the sander did not catch... But...

Hire please :)

Anyone know of a company (anywhere to start with) that does a compressed air driven nailer? Ta.

Did you find a compressed air nailer?? - I am after hiring one as well. Seems that no one does them, they are all the manual variety.

This saga ended recently... and for others who might need in the information here is what I did. I tried to pull the post down as per the previous post, but that failed. Then I put the post back and remade the brickwork under it. So back to square one. I had decided the sisters was the...

For anyone else searching this post - if your not adding sisters for structural strength reasons (as I am not doing) - then the thing you need are "Timber Drive Screws" I used 4" screws at 600mm centres. Any old timber with a reasonable overlap is sufficient. I used 150 X 47. As advised by a...

I am sure there is a BS table for this operation I need to find - but I can't find it... :) I have a 3.7m span floor at 320mm centers, spanned with 50 X 175 timber. It's already over engineered. I just need to level the thing out since it's crowned as the walls dropped over the years and...

Hi Mac. I really appriciate the guidance and pointers. I'll have a go shortly.

I get it now - that's much clearer. The front and rear floors are separate items. The front floor is 4" joists on 4" wall plates and is flat, with the exception of one corner which can be easily sorted with the method you describe. The rear floor 4.2m x 3.2m is onto a wallplate one end - the...