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At the beginning of the year we had our bathroom completely refitted and along with that installed a new Mira Sport Max air boost shower. As it is 10.8kW rated, we needed to upgrade all the cabling etc and that was done. Everything has been mostly fine, but it has recently started tripping...

Cheers guys. Our plumber got back to me and suggested exactly the same thing. Hopefully it is that simple! At least it's not leaking anymore!

That's sorted the leaking. Thanks for that. Learnt something new there, and shown the missus as I'm away from home a lot.

Photos below: So I've stopped the cistern filling, using only the mechanics in the intern, not the pipes below as I not know how to do this or how to drain it, and do know we have one hell of a high mains water pressure here which I don't want to mess with (again). This photo shows you...

I've not isolated the water fully by the stockcock as it were but the cistern isn't filling if you get what I mean. I have no idea as to where the water is coming from! That's part of the problem.

We had a new suite installed in January, and up till now everything had been fine. The toilet has just started leaking between the cistern and bowl. I've emptied the cistern completely and stopped it filling, but it is still leaking - a constant trickling, which if I leave it too long is...

Or other local car body supplies places - they tend to be cheaper for those fillers too.

That's exactly the case here. Before I even started to consider working on the gloss work, I noticed that in some places I've the staircase banister ends the paint was peeling really easily. The black stuff is much tougher than the newer paint, but using the het gun got shot of it pretty quickly.

Unfortunately that wasn't the case. The problems are with the base coats - lumpy, drippy and runny, and those problems have been oil lowed through on every other coat. The wood underneath is fine and once given a quick sanding will give a great finish. I don't mind putting in the ork even if it...

Going back to the wood has been beneficial, and I haven't actually cated a need to fill any patches. My sander does have a dust extraction system with attached bag etc and I have a face mask that I picked up when I got the heat gun too.

Well I "treated" myself to a heat gun that was half price today and some scrapers. Worked a treat! The frame is now clear of most of the paint and just needs a quick sanding before repainting.

That's what I was afraid of. I stopped sanding earlier and noticed all the layers above the black gloss would peel off easily. I also noticed that the black gloss although tougher to remove is a thin layer, and did scrape easily, so perhaps this is the way forward. Presumably I could do this...

Cheers guys. I'll look into the other sanders.

Thanks Joe. Is there a big difference between a belt sander on slow and a sheet sander on high? Also is nitromoors worth using at all?

I've just started to remove some of the awful glosswork in our house that the previous owners had just painted layer on layer, resulting in the top layer flaking, and the doors not to close properly (and they left drip marks everywhere). I've just been sanding one door frame and found several...

Ok, so at least that's some response. As I stated though, I don't like the finish of it, and hate the painting of it. What would be the next best thing?

Surely there's a decorator on here who can help me?

We just about to have our bathroom refitted. It was a horrible 70s or 90s corner suite in beige with matching beige bathroom paint which hadn't been particularly well applied to, well, anywhere. Lumps, drips, flakes, mould and all sorts... There's no more mould, as we do use the window when...

No we haven't been doing that, but we do hang some washing inside the house as there is nowhere else to do it and we cannot justify the cost of a tumble dryer and it's running costs, or even have the space for it currently. The bathroom fan seeMs to have done an excellent job and I am...