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Just to say thanks Spirit. I'll have a look tomorrow, as the little-un is about to go to bed. I'm assuming the stop valve will be on the ground floor (3-storey house). I know the gas and electricity points - sods law I don't know the same point for the water, and that's what I need. The...

Thanks WS66. Silly question now, but any ideas where I might find where to turn the water off? Can't believe i've lived here for 5 years, and never even thought about it :oops:

Thanks SS. I guess what I need to do then is replace the rubber seal on the left hand part inside the toilet? Any idea how to remove this to get to the seal? I can only think it is this, due the leak coming from the top of the pipe, and the nut being tight. Are the seals easy to...

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Well, not having much luck with out plumbing of late (fog horn toilet, leaking pipe on boiler, this and also a cold tap not working)....anyhow. Underneath out toilet (Ideal - about 5 years old), there is a flexible pipe which looks like it feeds in to the cistern part of the toilet. The...

Evening All. I'll try and describe as best a possible on this. In our bathroom, we have a sink (separate hot and cold taps), and a bath (mixer hot and cold tap - where both come out of the same spout?). When we arrived back from holiday during the summer, the cold tap on the bath didn't...

Cheers Andy. Turned the screw 90 degrees to the left, flushed, and...started filling back up :? Solved the problem by screwing the screw on the floating thingy (the non-technical term) to stop the water flowing back up. Then tried unscrewing the tube. No go. Wouldn't budge. Have a...

Thanks Chris. Sorry. A few more questions: 1. Turning off the water - I guess I turn the slot screw 90 degrees anti-clockwise? 2. Do I (1) Turn off the water first, then (2) flush the toilet, and finally (3) replace the valve? 3. To replace the valve, I guess this is inside the long tube...

Hi. After spending a few weeks with a 'fog horn' toilet, i've decided to sort it out. After thinking it was the tube where the water comes back in (which does have a hole), Mr B&Q advised it was the Float Valve Diaphragm Washer that needed replacing. So willingly purchased two different...

Change of plan...sorry folks. We've pulling our interest from the house. It doesn't add up financially (especially speaking to a mortgage advisor today), short term and long term. Too many concerns about it all, and just have these feeling a can of worms has opened. Ah well...we found...

Hi John. The difficulty is that the current owner never did anything, and also didn't get anything from the previous owner about what was done (or anything going further back down the chain to when it was done). So we are kind of left with a blank canvas as such, and having to do the...

Thanks John. I do agree, 100%, regarding converting the loft correctly before making it habitable. Its the one thing we said from the start...well, once we found out why it wasn't being sold as a bedroom and then looking in to why. Amazing really though. If we hadn't looked in to it, the...

Hi DevilDamo. Thanks so much for your reponse. As you can tell, i'm both new to the forum and doing anything in the world of home improvements lol Would agree that reading your post, and speaking more to the council, that perhaps my questions weren't worded correctly - but I plead...

Well...building folk are coming round to have a look. To be fair, they have been extremel helpful. Hopefully by next week we should know if its original, pre-1985 or is not right.

Hi SteNova. The house itself is Victorian era, so the 'loft' would be from that era if original. Is there a cut off date, even if it was amended, when building regs would not need to comply? Don't get me wrong, even if we didn't need building regs, we would still invest in to getting...

Hi. A news twist to this. We've just visited the house again with a builder. OK. So we've been quoted £15-20k for the conversion to building regs, but we found the following: 1. The staircase looks original to the building. 2 The skirting boards look original to the building 3...

Good morning Ladies and Gents. We're in a slight pickle at the moment, and was looking for some advice. We currently live in a 3 storey new build, we bought 5 years a go. We have 3 bedrooms upstairs, and a guest room/office downstairs. We currently have 1 child, and would like at some...