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It turns out it was nothing to do with flexi hoses or o-rings on the tails causing the leak. The ant rotation ring on the underside of the tap wasn't up it the job of keeping any water splashed on the sink top from leaking to the underside of the tap. I bought some plumbers mait and put a good...

I had a go at fixing the leak yesterday evening. I took off the hot feed flexi tail and checked the o-ring for signs of damage. There was non that I could see the ring was intact and didn't appear split or broken. I used PTFE tape at both ends of the connection, although I didn't wet the...

Yes, the kit had a spare set of o rings. TBH I wasn't sure what they were for and I was wondering if i'd missed putting them on somewhere and that was contributing to the leak. I was going to try the PTFE tape on the threads when I look at it tonight and hopefully that'll sort out the...

I installed a new monobloc mixer yesterday with flexible tap tails instead of the copper ones as they came with the tap pack. There appears to be a leak off the hot connection which I will investigate further tomorrow after work. In anticipation of having to buy a new flexible tap tail can I...

Just to let you know that I got the crack sorted last month using the wire lath plus skimming and re-plastering and re-painting. Now you would never know that there had ever been anything wrong at all. It was definitely a long winded method but well worth it. The bedroom was being done up as...

Seeing as how the house is up at least 50 years I think its done all the shrinking it's gonna do by now I've already chipped the plaster back to the bare brick so no going back now. What did surprise me when I got back to the blocks is that neither of the 2 walls that make the corner seem to...

Thanks for that tip. It could save a lot of grief for me :) Thanks for that info as well. I got 30mm masonry wheels with washered heads.

I spoke to my father today and he's agreed to do the job when he come back from holiday. He wants me to do the prep work by chipping back the pasterto the bare block work and securing the angle bead to the block work. He'll then plaster it all in for me. Couple of coats of paint and you should...

I agree that it would be a long winded way but it would be a better job long term. the walls are all painted up and it would be hard to bring myself to do it now. It would be beyond my capability to do anyhow but my father could do its he was a brickie and plasterer time served before he got out...

Both walls are brick. One is the front facing wall and the other is the dividing wall between us and next door No knocking through they are No teenage daughter just a wife who can be a bit rough sometimes

I recently redecorated a bedroom. Before redecorating I noticed a hairline crack in the corner of the wall on an internal corner. This crack run mor or less from floor to ceiling. I prepared and filled the crack with flexible pollyfilla and sanded and painted and the crack was no more. Fast...

Is this before or after they clean your pit first?? :P

A bit of investigation has brought about a similar conclusion. This morning I dried the dishes by drip drying in a location away from the sink on absorbent roll. This resulted in the washed items having no smell. The draining board and the plastic drying rack that is normally used seem to...

Not that I would know what they smell like but I take it that you found one in someones tank once?? :shock:

We've had a problem which has developed over the last 4-5 months. Sometimes when we wash the dishes in the sink and leave them to dry there can be an unpleasent smell on the washed items. This doesn't happen all the time and it seems to be that the sponge used picks up the smell and if we...

I might try that and if there really is no room then there's always the diplexer option. :?

I take it that the diplexer is a passive device in that it doesn't need a current to run it?

I menioned it might be a bit of a tight squeeze because already inside the conduit I have a coax cable from the LNB, a coax cable from the aerial, a telephone cable and last but not least a coax return to a Sky box upstairs to allow us to watch the subscription channels in the bedroom. I...

I want to get a satellite cable from the LNB down a conduit. It might be a bit of a tight squeeze but I was wondering if a bit of WD40 sprayed on the outer sheathing would help it slide down more easily, or would it attack the cable? Also when the installer put the original wires in the...

As it looks like a special guide for the installation of an electric cooker rather than some post in a thread started by a member I can only assume that it was written by someone who knows what they're talking about. I checked and the current double oven and hob combination could draw a...