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Thanks for the replies, but how do I check to see if the pump is working? Yes I did bleed the rads until water came out of everyone, this came out almost immediately I opened the valve.

I am not sure if this is relevant, but during the summer we had a water meter fitted by a local water company. The guy that initially came to do it wasn't sure where to put it and to cut a long story short, we eventually had it installed outside. Anyway, we have just recently needed the...

I have just had another look at where the new tap will go, in relation to the old ones, and the end of the tails on the new mixer tap is just about at the bottom of the service valve on the flexible hoses. Whats the best thing or way round this please? Thanks

We have bought a new sink and mixer taps, which have tials on the underside tapered from 10mm to 12mm then to 15mm over about 12 inches. The old taps had the flexible hoses whith service valves fitted onto the pipes with compression fittings. These hoses come upto the underside of the...

Thanks for the replies, but I think I now know how it happened. I didn't allow for tiling into the 2 door recesses, which would take a fw more tiles than I reckoned. As for the waste, well 2 of us think we only wasted about 10%, but I agree it might well be more. Thanks

Can anyone work this one out for me and my next door neighbour and tiler. My kitchen floor measures 2.240x 2.673metres, which equals 5.987 sq mtrs. I bought 60 tiles at 333x333, which gives me 6.65 sq meters. There is less than 10% wasted but I am 5 tiles short! How does that work out?

Thanks for the replies. The trapdoor is needed to gain access to the pipes, but only rarely, say once in a blue moon sort of time. The plywood, although screwed at the moment does rest on 2 joists and 2 noggins, so is well supported all round. Yes I'll probably make or cut tiles to suit size...

I have my 25mm plywood down and a section cut for a trapdoor to gain access to gas pipes etc. I am going to tile the floor this weekend, but unshure of how to make the trapdoor with the tiles. The plywood is screwed down at the moment, and would it need to secured once the tiles are on to...

Forgot to mention that a freind told me to spray it with duck oil. I've not heard of that before, but if I do, will it help?

My main water shgut off valve is very discoloured, like a greeny/blue colour, and when I open it up again after shutting off the water, therev is a small leak around the spindle of the tap, and each time I have to tighen up a small nut on it. Are the 2 things related and does it matter that...

Thanks Jason, I will check what it says on the bag first.

Ok, I have just finished laying 3 sheets of the 25mm waterproof ply down on new 5x2 joists, which I treated, and put noggins inbetween first. My questions: I noticed that the plywood was a different colour on each side, browny/red one side amd creamy on the other. I have my sheets down with...

Thanks for the reply and yes it does make sense after I read it a couple of times. I am not sure it would be practically easy to do that because if I read it correctly, the noggings would have to fit as close to the ends of the joists as possible so as to get another joist fitted inbetween them...

I have just ripped out my old kitchen and floor to level al the joists, and found that 3 were rotten, and 2 had big sections cut out of the at the top near one end. Also all the joists were of 2 different sizes, as in some were 4x2 and the rest were 5x2. I have replaced the 3 rotten and 2 cut...

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the stupid question, but I take it I should shut off the water supply before I remove the dishwasher valve.

Ok, with almost no plumbing knowledge, except what I have been reading lately, due to major kithchen alterations I am doing, I would like to know what type of fittings to use to extend 1/ the cold water feed for a diswasher 2/ both hot and cold water feeds for a mixer tap on new sink...

Just for info, I was talking to a tiler, who used to live next door to me, last night and was explaining what I was about to embark on,and he told me to use 25mm DWP, with flexble adhesive anf grout. So there you go. I'm sorted now!

I might be by the time I have finished the job, lol

I am going to tile our kitchen floor, after I have ripped up the 18mm chipboards and laid down DWP. But as the existing floor is only about 4/6mm below the hallway floor, and if I use 18mm DWP then say about a 8/10mm tile on top, that would make it approx. 24mm above the hallway floor. If I use...

The joists just sit in the brickwork pockets AFAIK, and there is a gap of upto about 15mm above some of the joists top the bottom of the brick. They all look in sound condition