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Hands up, my fault. I missed the insert on the cold water pipe. It lasted 18 months so I guess I was lucky it blew off when I was at home.

Hi, Had a bit of a disaster last night, the wife's in the bath and all of a sudden a joint on the sink popped off and flooded the bathroom with cold water. It was a polypipe attached to a compression joint which I've used for years but this is the first time this has happened. I cleaned and...

I'm not there at the mo but this is the unit in question. The water comes up through the top. It does whistle like its trying to stop but its obviously not sealing when the paddle rises to shut the water off. When its taken apart there is a black washer inside.

Hi, My mums toilet is constantly filling from the toilet valve. When I've looked at it, it doesn't matter where you put the float it keeps filling up.. quite slowly. I couldn't work out how to fix it so she got a plumber out who managed to take the top off the valve and replaced the washer but...

Hi, Sorry I didn't see the reply. The building reg guy came to see me and offered me a solution which I did. I built a course of bricks and lay the dpm on top of these and built a second course on top of the first.. sandwiching the dpm and allowing me to build the stud wall on top of the...

Evening All, I've submitted building regs to split our garage in half and make a utility room. Quick question, its going to be 2.4m v 2.4m square and probably using Celotex GA4000 to raise the floor up with chipboard flooring to bring it up to the level of the rest of the house. Where the...

Evening all, I recently removed a wall in out kitchen which left a hole in the ceiling and walls. When I plasterboarded the gaps I found that there was a obvious dip in the wall and the ceiling so it looks pants. I came up with a brilliant idea (ok I thought it was) to use a darby to level the...

Hi, I want to replace a glass door with one that matches the rest in the house but cant seem to find it at the usual places and its hard to see with pics on websites. Its a 6 panel door but the panels are really shallow.. almost flat. The house is around 18 years old so not sure if they still...

Thanks for the help, I managed to swap it out and even got the freezing kit to work... only snag was the olive was deep in the pipe and the old nut wouldn't tighten on the new valve so ended up having to delicately cut the nut and olive off.

Evening All, I've made a boo boo and snapped the valve on one of my radiators when I was replacing them for shiny new ones. Can you buy these or would you recommend just getting a std valve and using a microbore adapter. I swapped to 15mm in the bathroom using a freezing kit which the first...

Hi, The house we've just moved into has rather ugly pushfits connected to the central heating... all difference sizes too. Can these be replaced and where from? I can see the TRV ones have washers in them to fit and read on here the B & Q sell them. Just a bit confused what to buy. PS. its...

Hi, I've stripped by en-suite down to install a new shower and WC etc... The tiles took the plaster off so I decided to reboard. The walls are Gypwall (the house is 18 years old) and when I measured there is just one vertical brace at 90cm apart and 1 vertical about 150cm up from the floor...

thanks for the replies, apologies about the confusion over the cabling. The cables at the back of the dimmer were pushed up out of the way so i couldn't see how many grey cables came to the switch until I replaced the dimmer. I've replaces the dimmer for a standard switch for now. We've...

I've taken some pictures, apologies, the cable to the dimmer switch I want to keep is a single 4 core. The cable at the switch I want to remove looks like a twin and earth and a separate single cable. Dimmer Cable Redundant Switch I want to remove Cables at lamp

Hi, I'm looking at removing a light switch that we no longer need as ive plastered up the doorway its next to. (Looks stupid stuck in the middle of the wall) I'm reading up on it but thought I'd ask on here too for advice while I plough through the internet. The light I want to remove has a...

all sorted, had to cut the pipe but no leaks and works a treat.

Thanks for the replies. Heres the photos (poor light, sorry) Pipe goes into bottom of tank The broken wheel, pipe goes into loft. If I bung the pipe off in the loft tank I take it no water should come up from the hot water tank when I remove the broken wheel. Its a lovely tight space so...

Hi, I'm redoing our downstairs toilet in the house we've moved into and have a bit of an issue. Its got a tanked system which is different from the combi we had at our last house. So I could remove the sink I turned off the cold water feed at the stop valve and a valve at the hot water tank...

Thanks for the advice, worked a treat.. now for a bit of skimming

Evening all, I'm after a bit of advices on blocking up an internal doorway between two rooms. I've taken off the surround and door frame ready to crack on but the gap is 144mm and I'm wondering what size wood to use. 9mm plasterboard on either side leaving about 126mm to build the stud wall...