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blimey ... new bath, new taps, removable bath panel, tiled down to bath rim then siliconed in!!! In the unlikely even of the new tap tackle failing a refurbishment (probably dropping in a new cartridge) is going to mean shutting the h&c supply off with the gate valves and then effecting the...

coo - consider cutting the copper pipes where they come out the wall and fit chrome inspection valves and chrome pipe collars. Tile the room as appropriate (remember you now have no pipes in the way) all the way to the floor. Then re-pipe all in chrome supported by chrome 'hospital brackets'...

secure - Fit the taps to the back of the bath but drop the pipe tails down and under the tub towards the front. At this position (which will be behind the bath panel) connect the tails via a couple of gate valves to the supply pipes. The taps & tails are fitted before bath positioning and...

^woody^ wrote: "Clint Eastwood got out of Alcatraz with a spoon". Only half the story ^woody^ ... the spoon formed the handle of Clint's cutting tool; the business end was formed from a section of nail clipper. If you remember Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood) nicked the clippers off the...

buckie - no, no, no to modern solutions, the tried and tested methods are what's needed here. As in my earlier post: box spanner on nut tommy bar in box spanner hot air paint stripper to heat nut & soften 'putty' Stilson to hold tap body firm in basin (stop it...

Zebo (used to be called Zebright) is still available ... from Tesco or Sainsbury (I can't remember which one I saw it in). Yep, the bronze pattina is a light surface rust so when you clean the jobbie up the highspots will shine as burnished steel - as they should do. Tip: apply the Zebo...

buck - use a hot-air paint stripper to heat the offenders up (this'll not only 'soften' the "putty" {which might be decades old plumbers mate} but also introduce a bit of expansion to break the tap/nut jam) then apply a box-spanner to the back nuts AND a Stiltson to the tap body. IMO a box...

ben wrote: "....but started seeing pound signs rolling before my eyes!" but by the time you've gathered all the building materials for the job and invested the time with the construction I bet the pound sign will almost be equal to the purchase price of one of these repro jobbies...

ben - I'd be suprised if your clay fire back & grate was older than the 'out-of-keeping 1970s blockwork' you whipped out earlier ... they were probably put in together ... (actually they look in too good a condition to be much older). Judging from the footprint of your constructional hearth and...

JohnW2 wrote: "... but the reality was that even wisphering near one end of the duct could be clearly heard at the other end of the duct." Yep, what was good for HMS Cumberland, Essex, not to mention hundreds of other RN warships is also good for HMS JohnW2. Did you remember to blow down...

boom - I used the stuff made by Cementone ... always worked well. But there are quite a few on the market so you may want to go with the sort stocked by your local builders merchant; I suggest you Google, read the guff about how to, note the names of different makes then check-out the builders...

boom - you should use an epoxy patching mortar for any repairs to the cills. These Victorian cills are easy enough to fix ... get the 100 years of paint off first (I use a blowlamp & scraper - take care with the scraper that you don't damage the 'stone' below) or you could go messy with a...

con - pull the fridge/freezer out to gain access to the innards of of the f/f carcase. Remove any wall anchors (holding the unit to the back wall), remove any fixing screws that hold this unit to the neighbouring drawer unit (you may have to access these from within the drawer unit after having...

rarara - an effective method of scraping and keying a painted surface is to use the teeth on a saw ... no, not your best cabinet makers tenon saw! Swing by your local diy shed and buy a short cheepo hardpoint for about £3 - £4, this should be used with the blade tilted to about 30 degrees to...

bud - the NI builders merchant Haldane Fisher do BAL products ... they have 10 branches all over NI.

Turkeys - to remove the tub you could collapse the leg frame at the tap end as this may allow the tub to be tilted down at that end; the result of this is to effectively 'shorten' the bath's overall length. You may just get enough to be able to slip the beast out. Obviously you'll have to...