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Hi I'm looking for a thermostatic mixer shower, and think i'm settled on a bar type, with a hose and shower head as best suiting our needs. I've mainly been looking at Mira as a good brand, but am struggling to tell the major differences between the following. Coda - rrp £170 Coda Pro -...

Hi. I have a property c. 15 years old, fitted with an Ideal Classic R50 boiler in the garage. It's a traditional low pressure set-up, and the hot water pressure to the kitchen is pretty dire... I have 2 bathrooms, each with a bath and an electric shower. Now - one of the shower units...

Hi. I'm looking to install a new shower cubicle against the external wall of my bathroom. The wall is currently tiles (to be replaced), over plasterboard dotted and dabbed onto blockwork, and i'd like the pipework to the mixer to be concealed. I'm planning to pull the plasterboard off to...

yep. thanks for that! i've actually just manually opened the valve, and it kicked the pump and boiler in. having put it back in auto, i've also checked that the valve is doing what it should in terms of switching off demand for HW and CH etc, and it seems to be doing the job. Perhaps it's...

to add to this saga, i have come home this evening and started the heating. it's run OK for about half and hour and now stopped again. the timer and the thermostat both say run, but the pump is stopped and the boiler's standing. is this a dodgy pump?

Good morning. My central heating has developped a fault, and has decided not to run. The boiler is lit, and sat there doing nothing. It does not appear to be going out on over temperature. The room thermostat is set correctly, and you can hear the click at what feels to be a sensible...

ok, sorry. the outer wall leaf is brick, and the inner leaf is blocks with about 1" of expanded polystyrene bonded to it. so inside the cavity is brick on one side, polystyrene on the other, and about 100mm of cavity in between. I want to fill the cavity like normal, but CIGA (cavity...

Hi. It's not strictly DIY, but my property has poly backed blocks on the inner leaf of the cavity, and i'm struggling to find an installer who can warrant the installation of insulation. The cavity is otherwise fine for installation. Has anyone come across this before and successfully...

thanks all. that was my understanding, but i thought it worth asking a knowledgeable crowd.

yep, you're right, but i was just wondering whether it's even worth exploring the professional plumber route. I'm confident it will cost more than doing it myself, but if it's not that much more, it would be attractive... hence the question about subsidies etc, like you'd get for loft insulation...

Hi. I'm after getting 10no TRVs fitted in my house, and was wondering whether there's any subsidised schemes for such things that might make getting them installed by a professional anywhere near competetive with the DIY option? Failing that, does anyone know whether there are subsidies...

i've just fitted a stainless steel knobset from these guys, and it seems ok... http://www.securithardware.com about £9 a set if you can find a stockist locally

moulded hollow... and there's 10no. of them.

mmm... i meant "...live with the knobs..." the doors are moulded type, and having looked in more detail, the knobs are made by Weiser. i'l have a look at the knobsets as suggested.

Hi. I'd like to replace the existing brass twist action door knobs on all of my interior doors with a handle on a rose setup. When i've taken one of the existing knobs off, there is a 58mm diameter hole through the door into which the mechanism fits. Has anyone come across this before? Is it...

marvellous, thanks.

Hi. Can anyone tell me, is it acceptable to install a pan connector with fins directly into a the socket of an elbow? or do i need to solvent a short length of soil pipe into the socket to reduce the diameter? Thank you

Hi I have a T25S76N0 Neff 5 burner hob, and the ignition on the wok burner has stopped working. It works fine for the other 4 rings, and the ignition 'ticks' when I press the wok burner knob, like it should, but there is just no spark generated at the wok burner. It's all clean and dry, as...

thank you all for your advice. so it turns out toms tips on you tube cover every eventuality! Anyway, i managed to solve it very quickly with a sanding drum on a dremmel inside the coupling. Thanks again.

Hi I'm refitting a basin and the existing 32mm waste pipe seems too large for the fittings. I know they're supposed to be snug, but i physically can't push the fitting all the way on to the pipe. Is this an imperial/metric conversion issue? What can I do? use sandpaper to enlarge the...