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Hi, I have a slight leak on my central heating pipework. whilst I was lifting some flooring a solder joint must have been dislodged and now there is a drip. The joint is where my 15mm pipework joins some 10mm pipework. Is there such a thing as a flexi pushfit hose with a 15mm connector on...

Hi, I have a 4" inline fan fitted for my bathroom, it is currently ducted with approx 2.5m flexible hose. I would like to duct it with some solid pipe so any build up of condensation will run down rather than sit in the ducting. I would like to use something like soil pipe but am a little...

All getting a bit too complicated for me. I've now replaced the faulty towel heater element and everything is working OK, well the RCD isn't tripping and I don't get a shock when I touch the towel rail, if that means anything. I was just a little concerned when I had a short between live and...

Just a normal meter for measuring, Volts, Amps and Resistance.

I haven't actually isolated anything. Just turned the mains off via RCD. I had a problem with a heated towel rail element which I'm 99% certain was the cause of my RCD tripping. When this was removed everything operated fine but I was doing a quick check by measuring resistance between earth and...

Will the figure be affected by appliances on the ringmain. The worrying thing is the ringmain is working perfectly well and not tripping the RCD and yet the resistance between earth and live is virtually zero and about 40ohm between Neutral and Earth. I can't easily remove all the appliances on...

Hi, Can someone tell me what the resistance should be between earth and live and earth neutral when measured with a meter, obviously measured with the supply off on a 32A ring main.

Hi, My heated towel rail is tripping the main RCD. I'm trying to determine if its the electrical element at fault or something wrong with the wiring. I have disconnected the the Live and Neutral supply to the element and the resistance between earth and Live is approx. 0.5meg ohm, the...

Hi, I've just had a close couple WC installed, and although the back of the pan touches the wall at its base the cistern is about 2 inches off the wall at the top. The installer said its because the floor is slopping (even though he just laid the floor with new tiling). Anyway I'd like to...

Yes I've read the installation procedure for the Devi mat and I don't see any problem with the underfloor heating side of things, it will still be sat on ply and you don't have to put any insulation down if you don't want to. I do take all the points though about 12 & 6 mm ply screwed toghether...

Why won't the heating work, he is only going to sandwich the insulation between the ply not the actual matting. The heating matt will sit on top of the play. I take your point about the 6mm on top of 12mm not being very effective though.

Mrs just back home to find all tiles ripped up and heating matt screwed up in a ball. Fitter arrived back and just spoke to him on phone. He lifted 1 tile this morning and found that the insulation was not stuck to the ply ( he didn't read the instructions on how to stick it correctly)...

Well theres no way I'm paying for new tiles and heating mat. To be honest I'm not completely sure its the ply thats actually moving, not yet anyway. I can move some of the tiles just by putting pressure on two cormers of the tile with my fingers, I would need more pressure than that to move the...

Hi, Yes I'm sure he used 12mm ply straight onto the joists. I even said to him at the time that 12mm was a bit thin and I thought 18mm was the bare min. He assured me it would be OK because the joists were close together and it was only a small area. I've paid him a £275 for materials out...

Hi, I have just had my ensuite done. I've had electric underfloor heating installed and used Vysal 3mm insulation ( a bit like thin polystyrene) under the heating mat. The installer used flexible adhesive and grout but there is a lot of movement in the tiles, you can see the tiles moving at...

Hi, I am looking for some advice on the best type of carpet underlay. I want a soft luxurious feeling to my new bedroom carpet. Are there any pro and cons to the 2 basic types i.e rubber or PU. At the moment I am leaning towards the Tredaire Dreamwalk 11mm PU Luxury but have no...

I'm having my bathroom re-fitted and am having a plumbed chrome towel rad that also has an electrical element. All the pipe work is copper. I know all exposed metal within the bathroon needs to be cross bonded. I am looking at the best way of bonding the towel rad in the most discrete manner...

Hi, I have chrome towel radiator with an electrical element fitted. I have been leaving the electrical element on all the time even when the central heating comes on. Is there any potential damage I may be causing to the radiator or element by doing this. Thanks

After a bit of research it looks like some trays do actually have 90mm holes, so i presume the fast flow wastes are not suitable for my tray Can anyone tell me what the standard size hole is for a shower tray, so hopefully there are only 2 sizes of shower tray waste holes. I didn't realise...

Hi, I am having a new shower tray fitted and would like some advice on a waste for the tray. I am thinking of buying one of these: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/90mm-MEGAFLOW-SHOWER-WASTE-AND-TRAP-WITH-FLEXI-OUTLET_W0QQitemZ300170527887QQihZ020QQcategoryZ57212QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem...