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We've a wooden floorboard floor in our bathroom and have just had the bathroom done and have some 5mm thick lino to go down. I've read that it's best to line the floorboards first. Most people say use WBP ply. Would a waterproof plasterboard be acceptable too?? My thinking is that the...

We've rejigged our bathroom and the basin has been turned 90degrees which means for cosmetic reasons it's no longer viable hooking it up to the internal soil pipe. So, what I and most others in this type of house have done is exit the basin waste through the external wall below the window, then...

It's a cheap eBay affair. :oops: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200750279180 Kinda thinking you get what you pay for! I've taken the temperature knob off, removed the black plastic stop and turned it up as hot as it will go, but it is still only lukewarm.

Well, I took the tap off (it's a bar mixer mounted on deck pillars), to my surprise, the filter is no more! It's rusted away! I thought they'd be stainless steel? Anyway, I removed the mixer cartridge from the tap to check for blockages, but couldn't see any evidence. Upon reassembling it it's...

The thermostatic bath shower mixer tap, has, all of a sudden started delivering only lukewarm water. This morning, and for the six months it's been installed it's been fine. Now though, it'll give you full on cold, but as you turn up the temperature dial, it gets warm then no hotter. All other...

Cheers cozzmic. Pure cement? As in Portland cement?

In the process of fitting a new bath and when we exposed the soil pipe, which is cast iron, the 40mm solvent pipe coming off the bath its terminating into a branch on the soil stack which is about 50-55mm in diameter. All the previous installer has done is shove the bath waste into that branch...

Cheers Gordon.

I'm about to fit a deck mounted thermostatic mixer tap shower to our new bath, which will run off a WB 30CDi combi. Can anyone advise me whether a check valve or no return valve should be fitted, and if so which pipe to fit it to please?? Thanks

I have an infrared thermometer at work. If I get it will it help me work out if it's correctly balanced?

:lol: My dad and brother both have WB 25si combis in there houses, my dads being a bungalow and my brothers being a brand new 3 bedroom mid terrace. My brother used 409kwh of gas in October and 560kwh in November, this includes cooking with gas. I know it's a brand new thermally efficient...

A myson or potterton housewarmer 2 back boiler IIRC.

I switched supplier in the summer through the which big switch, during that switch I'm sure my usage in the twelve months previous was just under 22000kwh.

Yes, sorry, forgot to add that. Double glazed with cavity and loft insulation both done recently. I turned the heating side of the boiler down from just under 6 to five last night. Tonight we've used even more gas, 8.2 m3 in exactly 24 hours. This is with the thermostat turned down, now it...

We changed our old back boiler to a WB 30cdi combi back in September. Over the past week I've been keeping an eye on the gas usage and quite frankly I'm a bit disappointed. We kept the existing heating system, adding one extra radiator in the main bedroom takingthe total to 9. Its a 2...

How would a combi cope with installing a shower? Is it a mixer shower you install with these? :oops: There's only 3 people in the house, and people stopping over at Christmas time etc etc is almost an impossibility. Got someone I know coming out tomorrow to have a look for me.

Oh my, what a minefield! I really don't want to end up with a worse supply of hot water than we have now. :? With a system boiler, do you have to wait for them to reheat water as we do now? Or would the size of cylinder installed mean you shouldn't run out? And what sort of money are you...

Maybe it says vented, can't remember. But there's two tanks concealed within one fibreboard box in the loft, a hot tank, and a small cold water tank with a ball cock inside. When we run the hot water this cold tank starts emptying too :?

The hot water comes from the tank in the loft. Last time I looked it had a hot water tank and a small cold water header tank or something on the side of it. I know this because the ball cock came loose the other month in the cold tank. Think it had unvented on the sticker :? Rob, yes, as far...

Not very scientific but using a jug on the cold bath tap we get 30 litres of water per minute I think. What does that translate to in terms of fitting a combi? Think we get 20 or so from the hot tap :? Would a combi be okay? Can you get a combi anywhere near that?