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Thanks for the reply. Yes, the bits are all present and correct. The plastic nut from the Marley trap will not screw onto the McAlpine trap and vice versa. It's only by fractions but it won't go. The McAlpine one is just slightly bigger. As we put in Marley waste pipes and traps I'm sure...

To update on this one. I purchased a standard McAlpine bottle trap, connected it to the basin and lo and behold the waste pipe wil not grip in the trap. It has the usual plastic nut, plastic washer and rubber seal but the compression fitting will not hold the waste pipe. Both traps say 32mm /...

This trap doesn't seem to have an external valve - please see the link below. So I'm not sure how it's supposed to work. http://www.marleyplumbinganddrainage.com/specifier/catalogue/1515/1679/traps.html dal5band - it's in a vanity unit so running it into a bucket wouldn't be easy. They...

Many thanks for the replies. Bahco - Replacing the pipework is not really practical. The tiled floor has only been down a year - would be a bit of a nightmare to do. Clf-gas - how does the anti syphon work and why is it not letting air in? Reading some of the posts on here the...

Thanks for the quick reply. The basin waste drops vertically (about 0.8m) and then runs under the floor and outside into the soil sack. The overall length of the pipe is about 5m in total with a steady fall. I've had a look in the inspection chamber for the stack and all appears to be...

Hello All As the title says my bathroom basin is taking an age to drain. It's been in about a year and for 9 months worked fine however the last 3 it's started to drain slower and slower and slower. A blockage I hear you say. Well I've chucked various cleaning products down it with little...

Hello All Fairly recently moved into a new house (old house but new to us). The garden is well established with mature shrubs, bushes etc. I found out from the neighbours that until recently the garden had an old eating apple tree but the previous occupiers saw fit to chop it down. I...

Hello all I have a Potterton Performa 28 which can't be more than 6 years old at the most. I'm with BG homecare and the boiler has recently had to have a new PCB. If I dug out my old Sinclair Spectrum (circa 1981) I'm pretty sure it would work without a problem. The printed circuit...

I've got a Potterton Performa 28 which kept failing to operate giving me the fan/flue neon error - ChrisR correctly diagnosed a PCB fault. I'm with BG homecare - the engineer who came tried a new aps but after several other checks concurred with what Chris had said and ordered a new PCB. It...

Yes, I've seen several threads to do with curving radiators - however I'd still prefer to keep it where it is if possible, under the bay window. I'm guessing though that it's not possible to curve a double rad - one would need to be longer than the other?? Thanks again for all responses -...

Yes existing rad is a single. Many thanks again for the quick and very informative answers. Matthew

Thanks for the quick response. Yes the outside wall is north facing. Do you think the size of the existing rad is adequate?

Window is 1m high x 3.2m wide (measured round the bay).

The house is a semi and was built in 1929. There's one outside wall in the room - no insulation in the cavity and the ceiling height is 2.6m.

Hi We have recently moved and I'm in the process of decorating our bedroom. I removed the radiator in order to strip the paper but now part way through decorating I'm wondering if the radiator is big enough to heat the room effectively. The radiator I've taken off is a curved one under the...

Many thanks again for the advice.

Many thanks Zampa - great advice. We were going to use a blown vinyl on the ceiling and frieze and then line and normal vinyl the walls. As you mentioned the ceiling does move when some of the cracks are pressed - do you think a blown vinyl without lining first would be up to the job after...

Hi I've stripped all the paper from our bedroom walls and ceiling (it had a variety of painted textured papers - and paper) using a steamer. Anyway, I'm now down to the original plaster. The house was built in 1929 and the plaster is obviously cracking in places. We are going to re-paper...

An update on this and top marks to ChrisR for the diagnosis. In the end I got BG in to do it on one of their homecare deals. The engineer first changed the air pressure switch with no difference and after a considerable time checking various things concluded it was the PCB - something to do...

Jon - No, it's a Performa 28. It is refusing on occasions to start up when the timer cuts in. The fan/flue (50) neon flashes. However after resetting it/ switching off and on it runs okay. I've had various diagnoses from different people including the PCB, air pressure switch, venturi etc...