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You can't always make people happy. It's just a bit of steam. I think you are trying very hard to make unreasonable people happy, they never will be. Our neighbours occasionally blows over our fence, mine on to theirs. It's the way of it with modern condensing boilers. I'm impressed you're being...

The argument is that your business is the labour, not the supply and fitting of a service of some sort. I accept many people may want to take someone on on that basis, but for me I contract for a new central heating system not for the labour in installing it, if you see my semantic point.

Good point! But if supply and fit (plumbers with good reason don't want people supplying their own stuff) then for reasonable amounts think payment should be at completion. Couple of jobs of about 5k recently ( boiler and central heating upgrade, new flooring and joinery with) neither asked for...

I agree regarding credit. People who do work for you should be paid quickly on completion. As for paying for materials upfront, this would possibly make me think things are a bit Mickey mouse though. You'd hope any business could stand materials on reasonable jobs, receiving full payment on...

Think this thread is awful. It seems only to point to a guy who cares about and takes interest in the property he rents. What's wrong with that? The response seems bizarre.

I have a Mira Coda bar shower. I have some cracked tiles that I'm going to replace necessitating removal of the "bar mixer bit". No individual isolation to the shower, but can be easily isolated by turning the water off at the stopcock(unvented set up). What would I use to cap off the pipes...

Hi, I have two cracked tiles just where the shower pipes exit from the wall. Bathroom reasonably new but done before we moved in and no spares. It looks as though if we removed a few tiles we could perhaps put some contrasting tiles in which might look OK without having to redo the whole...

You should increase your normal hourly rate for Christmas day.

Probably a novice question, what's a 3 pipe system?

I had this with my old single pipe heating system, used to find it infuriating. When I decided to upgrade to a two pipe I actually justified some of the cost thinking " at least a newly piped system will be quiet". I was wrong, just new ticking noises. So before I had new carpets I spent a day...

Is this for real? Original post states "I'm decent with electrics" but a number of posts down and we are describing an electric storage heater "I can't see any pipe, they do have a cable connected to them and there are two knobs on them...." No offence, I reckon an electrician may be a...

It would be nice to see individual constituents if there are quality differences between possible parts I suppose. Controllers, TRVs, make of filter that type of thing....big differences in quality and cost between different bits. If those bits are "extras" then you may fee, you want to...

Where is this it leaking?

Whichever way you look at it the moisture from the bathroom is being discharged into the loft! It would be better being discharged outside. Simples.

I've an awful feeling this will be a vent pipe simply terminating in the loft space. Lazy shoddy and potentially damaging.

Agreed. These fancy sink plugs seem an over engineered solution to a problem that did not exist.

Yes 2k just for the repipe! The boiler and unvented cylinder just a few months before was many more ££s I'm not a skinflint, but am careful enough. More of a "do it right, do it once" approach. I'm in my "house that's mine to bring up the kids and see us right until we are forced into...

Mine ended up completely replumbed. The single pipe went as loop around the outside of all rooms. They ran large pipes centrally along the hall/landing and then smaller feeds and returns to each room and radiator. It was some upheaval however less than I thought, they managed a couple of...

Not a plumber. Just someone who had your quandary. I had a new boiler fitted to a one Pipe system unbeknown to either him or me. 6 months later I was under the floor and realised. I was unsure whether to upgrade, advice differed. I was having wood floor put down so decided to do it...

I honestly can't believe someone wouldn't know where the stop cock is, or the consumer unit for that matter. If I rent a holiday cottage I tend to look and see, I also look for smoke alarms and have a think how I'd get out with the kids at night if I heard it. Maybe I'm just weird or have...