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I think he opted for salt as the dishwasher uses salt & I assume water softeners do too?... I guess I should advise him to research what he's doing a little more! Heh!

Hi! A friend of mine hangs a bag of water softener tablets in a muslin bag in his Domestic Hot Water feed tank in his loft. Claims it softens the water a little and reduces calcium buildup in pipes and on taps. I've seen an expensive product Fernox sell for a similar use but that contains...

Thank you for another suggestion - Phil11 has kindly let me have a few! Sorted!

Cool, thanks, Phil11. :D

Red, Blue, Green with yellow spots..... just need to know where from. I tried eBay already - no go. Tries BSS as I needed to get a big float valve there once before as the PTS's, Plumbcenter's, etc of the world didn't have - but BSS don't do spares! D'oh! I'm rapidly coming to the...

Hi! I'm after a 25mm Dia x 3mm[approx] thick rubber disk. The closest think I can find is a 1" float valve washer. However these seem to be sold in packs with all sorts of other washers & not on their own. I've seen 3/4" in packs of 6 I think, but no plumbing supplier around me seems to...

Hey! I ave a 'T' shaped house. in the internal wall where the upright of the 'T' seems to meet the horizontal, there's a floor to ceiing crack. this moves though the year, opening and closing. I did chip the plaster & render off, opened up the crack a bit and filled it, however it's now...

*Wonders where I read up on the subject.* Thanks for the input - I kinda think a wireless control from each valve would be a nice idea - just the cash impication and keeping the lodgers fingers off might be a struggle. I guess regular thremostatics valves and a roomstat in the 'warmest'...

The installer was a brickie.... this guy, I discovered, put fittings [ lights etc ] on walls THEN plastered, didn't tape plasterboard so I have nice rectangular cracks in all ceilings, didn't bother marking switched lives cables.....and on! - No problems with the brickwork though!! Anyway...

I have a typical 2 zone [ upstairs & downstairs ] zoned radiator based central heating system. Both are on seperate timers / room stats...... the room stats for both the upstairs and downstairs are in the hallway and landing respectivly. I'm putting thermostatic valves on the bedroom...

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Hi! Have some fencing to repair - the wooden posts have broken off where they are rotted at ground level. There were concreted in. Is it reasonable to clean the old wood out of the concrete hole and slide a new post in? If so, I assume that triming it to enable it to slide in to the...

Hey! Laying a very small lamiate floor - not even 2 full planks long, in a room with pipes, architrave tiled firmly into place and a soilpipe sticking out of the wall. Theres a carpet to laminate gripper in place - though I could lift that out. The Laminate os some posh[ish] stuff from...

Yeah! I think I'll give them a ring. The tiles are cheap white bumpy 200 x 250mm jobbies from B&Q - I don't think it's them - especially as most have stuck. I was concerned that along with the 'dryer' mix of the first 2 tubs [ 3rd tub was a different batch & wetter ], that leaving it long...

Tiling me sister's bathroom - like an idiot! She has a wall freshly plasterboarded and skimmed [ though I'd have preferred he hadn't skimmed as it's all over the place thickness wise! ]. I've primed it with the Bal acrylic stuff 1:1 with water [ as it says on the bottle ] & let it dry...

That's what I was afraid of - it's very impractical to do that in this house! Hence asking if there was an automatic valve I could pop onto the vent to let the rising air out, You get them on central heating systems but this thing will probably be at 1.5bar pressure [ as he already has a...

No, I deffo mean a close coupled cistern/pan but the pan need to 'look' like a back to wall - so the soil pipe is totally enclosed by the sides of the pan. Maybe I should call it a "Back to wall pan with an exposed close coupled cistern". A bit like ebay item 220125029127 but with the...

Hmmm! Having inspected the pipework whilst doing an exstensive refit of the bathroom, the installer has DEFFO Tee'd all the hot water outlets off of the same pipe which vents over the header tank in the loft. So, out of the top of the cylinder, to a Tee to the kitchen, onward to the...

Ok, I tried to ask this before - I'm now off the tablets so hopefully I'm more coherent! I have a friend who want to pump his hot water. He has a pump which can be installed at his hot water cylinder. The current pipework is gravity fed. If he just pumps it as it stands, He'll **** water...

My sister's looking for a back-to-wall toilet pan but with a close-coupled cistern. Other than that, nothing fancy/designerish as it wants to age gracefully and doesn't want to cost a bomb! Her hubby won't let me pop a concealed cistern in as "What he can't see will leak!"...... Of course...