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i'm not doing any of the work myself,,, my builder is doing it and all electrics will be signed off by an electrician at the end,,, i'm not into risk taking,,, just trying to work out what is possible and what is not. thanks

i am building an ensuite in a loft room which will place it up in the eves... the vertical walls to each side of the bathroom will be approx 800mm high, before turning up at an angle to meet at the top. i want to place the extractor so the ducting can flow through to the sofet and...

I've been looking at all this again and it seems like the following is viable... please correct me if i am wrong. the wc and bath/sink wastes will have to join before they reach the stack... it's not ideal, but there is no way round this (the stack is internal and short of removing a few...

if i fit a AAV between the sink and the bath and then a second AAV between the bath and the join-up with the wc waste... will this cover all bases? surely this would ensure that no siphoning occurs when either the bath or the wc is used? or am i missing something? cheers

i've already notified BR and paid the fee... my builder says that there is no way of connecting the wc to the stack independantly from the bath & wc, but adding aav or anti-siphon traps would be a possibilty... he's spoken to a plumber who doesn't seem to think there would be an issue...

i have two pir-activated lights attached to the garaging at the end of my garden... for some odd reason, they now appear to be on 24/7 even though i don't think i have touched any switches. any idea why this might have happened? cheers

i'm having a new ensuite fitted in our loft room. i've got the water supply issue sorted with a Techflow QT80-2-NHE negative head twin pump (thanks to the forum for providing the advice and resources for this particular aspect) i now have to turn my attention to the subject of waste water...

I've just been looking at this idea and it certainly has lots of merit... However, I have one or two concerns... 1.) Can the pump supply both negative and positive heads at the same time (ie. flushing the upstairs loo and having a shower downstairs)? 2.) Is the switching completely...

Do really need that much pressure just to run cold water to the wc, sink and bath and hot water to the sink & bath?.... there will be a hand-held shower-connection for the shower, but nothing that needs much in the way of pressure.... I just need enough to get it upstairs....

that sounds both quite dramatic and also quite expensive to sort out... other than replacing the already knackered pump, my basic plan only involves adding another negative head unit...

A Techflow whole-house system with negative head will be about £600 surely?

I've been hunting about and I can get a Salamander CT75 twin impeller pump for about £115... this would replace the existing CT50 and supply the main shower albeit with slightly improved pressure. With regards to the negative pressure pump, I guess the best option would be the Techflow QT45-2...

Good evening all, Hi there, I am just renovating my cottage and I need some shower pumps. My existing pump is a Salamander Contract 50 (1.5 bar) twin which supplies a single shower located roughly adjacent to the hot water tank on the first floor. This pump sprung a leak which made...

the ticking wasn't off the expansion/contraction type... it almost sounded like a very well insulated sparking sound... the odd thing is that the boiler did make hot water for me... but then shut itself down about 5-10 minutes later...

we noticed the other evening that when there should be hot water, there wasn't... i selected the heating advance manually this evening and the boiler made a fairly lengthy dull ticking noise before firing into life (the pilot light is on)... it then ran for a while before switching itself...

thanks for the reply. the varnish i have bought is Ronseal Perfect Finish Varnish (Walnut finish) which comes with one of their 'Perfect Finish' applicator pads... have i bought the wrong thing? cheers

i've spent most of the day trying to strip back my bannister... having initially begun by sanding some of the bannister back to the raw pine, i realised (perhaps a little foresight would have helped here) that i would not be able to easily get to some of the parts with a sanding block... ...

we bought some b&q wood satin for our doors and skirting boards... having painted it on, it ended up looking more like gloss than anything else... we have now bought some eggshell to paint over it... but before we do, would i be right in assuming that all we need to do is to give the satin...

thanks... thought so.. when you say 4-1, does this mean it is watered down? cheers

just removed a small desk which was inset into an alcove,,, it has left a groove (approx 1 inch deep by 1 inch high) around the walls of the alcove... i want to fill in the groove, but before i dig out the big pot of polyfilla, how do would i best stabilise the crumbly expose plaster... do i...