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Personally, no - however, my wife absolutely has to have one.

Hi there. I have a bit of an old house and the tap end is hard up against the bathroom wall. This has left about 8 inches of gap between the other end of the bath and the other wall and that wall has (annoyingly) an electric shower on it. Over the years, various shelves to try and cover up...

Thanks for the advice, guys. Much appreciated. Unfortunately, the current bathroom has become so dilapidated (is at least 45 years old) that the sink has a very slight leak and we are worried that the toilet is on its way out as well - really should have not let it get to the point that it...

Hi there. We are looking into moving, in the next 18 months or so, and our bathroom is extremely tatty and needs replacing (i.e. cracked sink, enamel coming off bath etc.). We do not want to spend a fortune, so just need a very basic new bathroom put in so it looks clean. When we bought our...

Now you mention it, it does look a bit funny - I shall definitely check that out (I have bits of insulation everywhere, so I would not be surprised if some had got into the tank). Thanks ever so much for the advice on cleaning out the sediment with a hose - definitely going to try that this...

Thanks so much, guys - I popped the little cap off and it was indeed a small metal mesh. Cannot believe I didn't know that that was there. I had never heard of By-Law kits, before. Now I have looked them up - all seems to make sense, now. I have one of those houses where everything seems...

Thanks guys - a couple of extra photos attached. I am slightly confused - in the bottom photo, the overflow tube opening is below the water line. This is unlike any other water tank photo have seen on the net. Would this not cause a syphon effect and start sucking water out of the tank? I...

Hi there. Does anyone recognise this pipe fitting (the bit joining the two pipes)? It is from a loft water tank overflow pipe. Has a round turnable disc on it but I cannot see that it does anything.

Pics of programmer and hot water cylinder attached (it is yellow, underneath, and about three foot in height). It is really difficult to put my finger on what the issue is - there must be a pattern as to when the water is hot enough and when it is not but we just cannot figure it out. A few...

Hi there. Am just contemplating something and would be grateful for any pointers. Ultimately, I have a Y plan heating system that uses a timer to turn on the water whenever needed. The heating is set to continuous as we use an intelligent Honeywell thermostat for all our heating timers. I...

Hi there. I have shown a bit of recent interest in how my central heating actually works but, having watched some videos and reading all I can on the subject, I am not quite sure as I seem to have extra pipework and connections to what I was expecting. Could anyone possibly advise how the...

Sorry - I meant to say that if the heating only is on and then turned off, the actuator automatically returns to the default position of W. Ultimately, the only thing that does not work is getting the acutator to move from the default water position. Once it is in the middle or on heating...

Yes - if the thermostat is set high and the boiler is low on water, the boiler will fire up in all three positions. No changes at all, unfortunately, just stopped working suddenly one morning a few days ago.

Hi there. I woke up the other morning and realised that my central heating was not on as expected. The acutator should have been in the middle position to feed both the hot water tank and the central heating - however, it was in the water only position (to the right), despite the thermostat...

Not quite sure, actually - forget that, if you don't think it necessary.

Further to the above, I have been looking for a fire and waterproof, enclosure to countersink and put the device in (in particular, I was looking for something with an IP66 rating as the bathroom can get so wet that water does sometimes run down the wall). Everything I have found, so far, seems...

Thanks guys. I think I might well, therefore, have to sink it into the wall as above (and use a blank face plate to indicate that it is there). One other reservation, about otherwise putting it in the cavity, was that the signal would be that much weaker. Good point about the roof - it might...

Sorry to reactivate this old thread but it is very similar to something I am looking at. I recently installed a new humidistat extractor and I regret it now - no matter how I set it, it either does not come on or keeps running even when the bathroom is adequately dry. I have a Home Assistant...

Hi there. I currently have a very basic bathroom extractor fan that is controlled with a manual switch - i.e. it was wired in independently of the light switch. Basic as can be - pull the cord and the extractor goes on, pull again and it goes off. The extractor is on the wall of a flat roof...

Bit of an update on this one - I am now coming to conclusion that the extraction rate is not what it should be with my fan. My bathroom has a volume of 8.57m. My extractor fan can eject 97m per hour. At that rate, the it should be whipping out steam really rapidly. However, it doesn't seem...