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As the title, guess I tightened too hard. Thing is the one radiator that sheared is different to all the other radiators in the house. The others all have a large bolt at the very side of the radiator with the bleed nipple in the middle. These appear to be the standard 1/2 " BSP valve which...

Are you just painting the repaired area?

You're right - I meant vented!

Hi, We have moved into a new house which has an unvented I suppose old-fashioned heating system. Boiler is an Ideal Mexico Super 3, there are no TRVs and there's no cylinder thermostat. Standard room thermostat in the hall. All works well - we don't like the either "on or off" nature of...

Could make your own gate. I'm not much of a DIYer but managed. Look up "z gate". Only need a saw, screws and some wood then brackets and latch. Cut the top and bottom of your "Z" to the required width, make the frame attach palisades to front. That said I reckon most fencing suppliers will...

Thanks, have done that and all seems well for now. Taps have only been fitted 2 weeks! I bought "old fashioned" washer type taps thinking that they were a simple tried and tested principle and easy to maintain. They were not that cheap...! Edit - not sure what happened with the double post!

Thanks, have done that and all seems well for now. Taps have only been fitted 2 weeks! I bought "old fashioned" washer type taps thinking that they were a simple tried and tested principle and easy to maintain. They were not that cheap...!

Recently bought new house with one of these concealed cisterns. The small flush works every time, the large flush requires the button to be pressed several times to work. Had a little read - someone mentioned "bellows" in the button - removed this but can only find a rubber diaphragm that...

Recently moved in to a new house. The bath took ages to fill and reading on here I realised I likely had taps designed for high pressure on my low pressure system. I read around and decided old fashioned spindle type taps were what I needed to give me years of easy use. I swapped them...

Was thinking I'd like extractor fans in my bathrooms (they get steamy). Both are recently done (we've only moved recently and bathrooms modern and done before we moved in) so not keen for much destruction or redecorating. Both have the loft above and are situated on an outside wall. Is...

Am in a relatively new house and have been messing about in the loft. I have two separate cold water tanks joined by a connector at the bottom of the tanks. There were no lids and the tanks poorly insulated. I've fashioned some lids (being unable to find exact fits anywhere) out of marine...

For me I would almost certainly give the job to the guy I use already for servicing. I would probably get another quote or two as I'd like to check he wasn't way out - but if he was more expensive but not too far I'd still use him. This is how things tend to have worked for me. I try people...

There is a separate pipe which bends over the top of the "small cistern" in the loft (and one over the bigger one for that matter). I assume that means a separate vent?

Hi, Have replaced the bath taps today (I'll get a plumber next time, but that's another story!) Anyway whilst isolating the supplies to the bath in the airing cupboard (gate valve on cold supply from cold water cistern in loft to bath and cold feed to HW cylinder) I noticed another gate...

Hmm. I have the same boiler and the guy who services mine told me to keep it going for as long as possible. Apparently what they lack in efficiency they make up for in reliability and ease of repair. Thermocouple goes every now and again on mine (same symptoms that you have).

Hi, Recently moved into a new house (new to me). Flow to hot tap (monoblock mixer) in our en-suite is poor. Gravity fed and tank prob only a couple of metres above in loft. Also connected with flexis. I've read around and note the possible problems - wrong type of tap, flexis/isolator...

Oh, tap model is Franke Olympus.