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It comes out the bottom of the tank, connected to a vertical tube inside the tank. If the ball cock fails and the tank keeps filling up the water level rises over the top over that vertical pipe and spills into it. From there it is supposed to flow through that pipe and exit outside the...

Hi folks The overflow pipe from the cold water tank in my roof space can be seen going into the wall (see picture) but it cannot be seen exiting on the outside of the house. Why is it like this? Could it be connected to a drain somewhere with the wall cavity? Could some cowboy plumbers have...

Thanks everyone. I have a quote to replace the water tank of £725 all in. This may seem a bit high but it includes core-cutting a hole through the wall and a coffin tank. And also I live in Edinburgh and things ain't cheap here. But the thing is that the whole system including the boiler is...

Thank you, I am in Scotland but presume that regs will be (almost) the same. Hopefully an SDS drill will be adequate for the hole?

The tank is an elderly fiberglass tank, there are some cracks around the top. It is bulging outwards due to the weight of the water in it and I have put a wooden brace across the top to stop it bulging any more. I could probably make a better job of supporting it with a wooden framework around...

I have assumed that when a machine reaches 11 years of age that all those rubber hoses and things are getting bit worn out and the risk of a flood increases. So I will write the old machine off it is a budget priced Beko and which served me well.

Thank you, makes sense. By a few hundred might that mean maybe £500 TO £800 including bits, labour, tax, etc? Needs to be a coffin tank to get through a hatch, they seem to be quite pricey.

Last night a bit of water was dripping through our bathroom ceiling. I had a quick look and will be doing more of an investigation after writing this. So far it looks like the ballcock didn't completely shut off the water entering the cold water tank in the roof, there was a trickle entering...

Thanks folks, new machine it is.

My washing machine drum doesn't even try to rotate. Machine fills and drains but anything to do with turning the drum results in silence, no whirring or clicking noises of any kind. Any ideas? Control board? Motor brushes? Machine, a Beko, is maybe ten years old or more. The motor has been...

I got up on a ladder and had a look at the cover piece and it seemed okay. Whilst I was there put some more sealant over bits that might not have been 100% good. So far it seems to have stopped the leak. But the leak happened after a few days of very heavy rain coming from the North East...

I wasn't sure where to put this but as it is about water ingress I plumped for the roofing forum. My conservatory has a leak, it is 13 years old, see pictures. Looks to me like it is getting in either under the sealant on the wall, or under the sealant bead that runs vertically an inch or...

I have a problem with the facia boards on my porch, see photos. The timber is quite sound, it doesn't seem to be rotten, more a case of it de-laminating. Not sure how the water got in, but the delamination seems to be happening from the outside, that is the bit facing out. I think some water...

The point of flexible hose for the hob would be that if I were to attempt to change the units under the worktop holding the hob I could probably get away with it (i.e. without changing the worktop). Just realised it must be pretty much standard to use a flexible fitting with a cooker, so that...

Hi, Can a gas cooker (i.e. a free-standing unit with burners on top and an oven underneath) be connected with a flexible pipe? I ask this as I am thinking of buying a new cooker and want to be able to move it around a little bit (just a few inches each way) if I fit new units and worktops...

Thanks for the advice and sorry I have been unsure of some terminology and just plain daft with some. When I said "under the sink" I should have said "under the hob", may bad for sure. I'm not sure what to call the thing under the hob, it is a cover with a box underneath and in the box...

Answers: 1 - the existing socket is not a 13amp three-pin. It is a cover plate over a box, inside the box there are screw-down connectors I think. 2 - there is a big switch above the worktops marked "cooker" which switches on/off power to the socket under the sink. There is a unit in the...

The existing socket is not in use just now, and am not thinking of putting any kind of oven in the space underneath the oven (will be using a table-top oven plugged in with a standard 13amp socket to a different circuit). The WIKI refered to above has alot of blank pages, I can only see info...

Hello, I am thinking of replacing a gas hob with an electric hob. I will get the gas hob removed by a registered gas fitter (at the same time as he/she does a boiler service). The hob will be in a space which had an an electric cooker in it many years ago, there is a wall-socket underneath...

Thank you, there are no other cracks in the PC frames. But there are some cracks in the walls. It is a lean-to conservatory, with the main aspect facing east. The house is on a hill, so the conservator has an underbuild of a few feet, with a suspended timer floor. On the south side there...