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i am decorating my dining room and decided to remove the wooden threshold leading to my patio door so i could carpet up to the doors.after lifting the board it has exposed the cavity between brick courses and need to know how to overcome this problem.i would like to fill the cavity with concrete...

thanks for replies,he checked gas pressure ok,the flow from the hot tap is as it was when new,i noticed that the flow limit device was no longer working,ie full flow from tap when turned on but he said all was fine.i have noticed some times the flow pipe does get hot with water running but not...

called out the british gas today for the hot water problem on my puma 80,i was only getting warm water out.he checked right through and said all was fine and it was scale in heat exchanger which is not covered under the insurance.he suggested fitting a hydroflow hs38 for £150.iwill happily pay...

hi,just brought two 15mm full bore isolating and noticed they do not have flow direction arrows.is this not critical on these or should they be a certain way round with regards to water flow,many thanks

my boiler has just started to be trouble when producing hot water,the temperature does not seem to be hot enough when we need to wash up or run a bath.whilst running everything seems to be working and when running a tap and i vary the temp knob the flame appears to be modulating ok and the...

can anybody tell me if sealing my new grouting is a worthwhile job.i have just tiled all around my new shower bath and grouted but i heard somewhere it is a good idea to seal the grout before use to prolong the whiteness.if it is a good idea could you please advise me of a good brand and where i...

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i am about to fit a shower bath and i have been given a nice pair of basin taps and was wondering if i could use it on the bath.my bath has no drilled tap holes and my combi system supplies hot water via 15mm copper pipes.am i right in thinking that because the pipe is 15mm it would make no...

a friend of mine has a thirty year old central heating system which recently had a bad leak from the hot water tank.he called a heating company in and decided the tank would need replacing.they fitted a new tank and all was well for the first day but the next day no hot water.they came back and...

i am trying to fit a shower tray and going for mounting the the tray on 18mm ext ply sitting on 4" by 2" timber.i have just cut the ply to the strange shape of the tray and realise now that the two shower traps i have brought are not deep enough to pass through the ply onto the tray.how would...

i have decided to buy a mira thermo shower valve and noticed b and q have the mirailver at a very good price,the only down side is it has one lever which controls flow and temp.does this mean full flow is achieved as soon as the valve is opened and does not change but the more you open the valve...

i am looking into fitting a shower to run off my combi and was thinking of getting a mira thermoststic valve with swivel inlets to allow surface mounted pipes but i have just noticed that bristan do a twinwall pipe that contains hot and cold using a smaller pipe within a larger pipe that also...

hi guys,been looking into getting a quadrant shower enclosure for the bathroom but can't fathom out how you run supply pipes to it if as in my case the shower will be on a solid outside wall.is it a case of digging the walls and plastering over or can you get a mixer unit that uses exposed...

please could anyone tell me what sized notches i need to lay ceramic floor tiles on a pretty level sound concrete floor,cheers.i have been told conflicting views and would like reassurance

please could you give me some tips on how to fix the taps so they hold tight on sinks etc,i have tried all things,using extra rubber washers top and bottom but they always seem to work loose with the heavy handed kids in the house.cheers

is there any secret when joining tap connectors to taps,i always ensure fibre washer is dry and also us a bit of boss white on the washer,but i still struggle to get them to seal.also where they join toilet cistern inlets it states not to use any compound,is there a trick when doing these,cheers...

go for it,move into my ex council place 8 years ago,no heating,two gas fires and it was freezing.thought we would wait till we could afford heating but by november we couldn't bear living there it was so cold and not homely.took the plunge and got a heatpack from a plumb centre.fitted the boiler...

a friend from work wishes to fit a new oil tank in a different location to the old one in his garden.are there all sorts of building regs etc to follow and does the piping need a slight fall from the tank to the pump or will the pump manage to overcome.would he be better off getting a company to...

just read some stuff on these units and they sound good,can you tell me if any of you have used them and do they work as well as the bumph says.is £100 about the normal price??thanks.