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It's always worth a shot finding two suppliers - t'internet is a marvelous tool for getting the odd tenner off here or there on things like delivery :-)

Found it ! This particular bath is supplied to Wickes by Renaissance (via Mark two) who do not currently sell it to anyone else. I've spoken with Reneissance about how to fit it (which was my secondary question). Iflo is owned by the wickes/TP/City Plumbing group - as far as I can tell...

I've tried two local merchants and neither of them knew where I could get one :-(

Not a technical question - sorry ! Found a great bath in Wickes but never like paying their prices... does anyone know who supplies wickes with their baths ? OR can anyone tell me where to get the same sort of bath - it's a modern acrylic double ended bath but with an integrated front...

Hi Folks, I've currently got old aluminium windows set into a wooden frame. Is there any reason that I can't just chop out the whole of the wood back down to the brick when I replace them? And does this go for both the downstairs ones - which are brick structure, and the upstairs one - which...

soil with concrete - I can guess the next bit :-(

hi folks, not really home security - but field security. We have travellers in our area who we'd like to keep out. We've decided to invest in some mole posts but I'd like to know how secure they are. They are advertised as ram raid posts. But the travellers don't fit into this category...

Hi folks, I've got a 1960's suspended floor bungalow. All properly vented underneath. Someone put on a solid floored conservatory on the back. It's lower than the main house so it hasn't covered up the two airbricks that it goes over - they are visible at the floor height. However, what on...

anyone got any ideas - even a link to a definitive picture ? thanks John.

Power shower struggling to "start"and pump racing - certainly air in there somewhere me thinks - what do I do to fix !? This is the history so far.... Plumbed the shower about 4 years ago. The shower always had a "quirk" whereby it would sometimes (maybe one in 20) struggle to start unless...

Hi folks, got lots of info on here about this but still confused - sorry ! Firstly - is an AAV another name for a durgo (this is what this tells me - http://www.diydata.com/plumbing/air_admittance_valve/air_admittance_valve.php) Secondly: OK, so I already have a perfectly good...

Ah ha ! That'll explain why, for all these years :) there's been a boiling sound coming from the pipes when the thermostat was broken for all that time !!! Blimey, I'm a lazy bugger for not thinking about it then ! many thanks !!

Hi Folks, I've just had a plumber round to put in a new boiler thermostat. While I was changing it round so the thermostat was facing the correct way (so I could see the nice red line - don't ask me why he thought I'd be dumb enough to think it was meant to be the other way -!!!!) I noticed...

Half way through (been a busy weekend !) and I'll have to go plastic from the valve to the pump - the pipes come up in a horrible place in the loft so the nice bendy plastic is the only way I can think of doing it. I've just been looking at techflanges and it seems to be 22mm - which bemuses...

When I put the 8" head on the wall it was waaaayyy to big :-) I downgraded to a 5" head - which will still need some ummph ! I've seen a salamander variable Pump so that'll be the man for me I think. Any thoughts on plastic piping versus copper? My pipe-bender mate ( a serious DIYer)...

Thankyou ! Essex flange it is then. I've got a mates pipe benders. Now I just have to work out what pump to get. Is there any algorithm I can use to work this out? I've got a 8" Apron shower head and a thermostatic valve. Is 2 bar way too much? I figured I'd get a 2 bar variable pump and...

Hmm, just how hard is it to install an essex flange? Most people seem to avoid it and go for, what appears to be, the worse option of a surrey flange. And, do they come with the nice curved pipe - or do I have to make it - I don't have a pipe bender ! Hmm, I guess I'll need one for the...