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Thanks - does it normally take long to drain? I left a hot bathroom tap on for several minutes and it didn't stop. I had assumed that since the hot water feed from the cylinder emerged from the top of the cylinder, then as soon as the supply to the cylinder was cut, then the water would stop...

I ripped up the tiles in my bathroom and the T&G chipboard beneath is very loose and there's loads of movement. Also, the cracks in the tiles do indeed follow the joins in the chipboard panels. What I did however notice was a damp stain in the corner by the bath (photo below). There are some...

How do I turn off the water to the hot taps? :oops: In my airing cupboard there's loads of valves and I found the one that feeds from the header tank to the cold taps, but I couldn't find one that feeds from the top of the hot water cylinder to the hot taps. I tried shutting off the valve that...

Thanks, I'll check the local DIY store tomorrow. Looking at my taps though, there doesn't seem much space between the bath and the wall to be able to swing anything to the left or right. :?

thanks breezer. Are there different types and sizes of tap spanner, or does one type/size fit all?

Hi all, I'm getting water leaking under the far side bath tap (photo below) and dripping through the hole onto the floor. Can anyone please tell me how to get a spanner into the narrow gap between the bath and the wall so that I can take out the taps and re-seal the hole? Thanks.

That makes sense. In both those photos I think the joists are running top to bottom, whereas the majority of the parallel cracks (which are 60cm apart) are running left to right (i.e. at right angles to the joists). What still concerns me though is that unless I get sheets of ply that run the...

Thanks guys. I was told though that it should be possible to tile directly onto chipboard floors (with the right adhesive/grout) without this happening. Any suggestions for what I should do with this floor?

When my house was built (about 7 years ago), I paid a tiler to tile the bathroom and en-suite floors. Very soon afterwards cracks started appearing in the tiles (you could hear the tiles cracking at night time). The tiles were laid directly onto a chipboard floor and the tiler said they would...

Most of the floor tiles which were laid in our bathroom and en-suite when our house was new (about 7 years ago) have since cracked. Several tillers have offered quotes for re-laying new floor tiles and have assured me that they will not crack again, however based on my experience with the...

The plastic strip just covers the cavity gap between the outer and inner walls. In the end I got rid of all the plaster that's visible in the photo, stuck a piece of plasterboard across the whole width and plastered over it. Its now held firm since October and there's no signs of renewed...

Hi all, I'm about to re-decorate my bathroom and the first thing I intend doing is ripping up all the old floor tiles. Due to flexing of the floor, most of the tiles have cracked since they were laid about 7 years ago. I don't want to lay floor tiles again as I know they will only crack again...

Masona, the frame is wood, here's a picture: What I was thinking of doing, is removing more plaster (from the end of the inner wall), then sticking some plywood across the plastic strip and the inner wall and plastering over the plywood. Do you think this will work? JtB.

Hi all, I'm new to this forum and I'm looking for a little advise on a problem door frame. I'm a DIY novice so I apologise in advance if my question seems trivial. The plaster round my back kitchen door frame started to crack a couple of years after my house was built. It was a straight...