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I must admit I assumed he was self-certifying given the nature of our conversations, but it's not something I specifically checked out first. He came to me as referral from someone I usually trust. That's good advice though, I'll find out exactly what he's qualified to do, and take it from...

Hi Thanks for your responses. I'll take a piccy of the existing unit when I get chance (I'm at work at the moment), but I can tell you the guy who fitted it did so about 2 years ago, and provided no certificate. Basically, I think he just replaced the blocks which held the fuse wire with...

Hi I hope this is a simple question... I've just had a new kitchen, and so had an electrician in to move a few sockets around and add a couple more. It's all in and working, but the electrician says he can't sign it off unless he gives me an RCD protected consumer unit for another £240...

Thanks for your help ChrisR - that gizmo looks like it'll certainly help. You're right about the wall and likelyhood of cracks - even the old radiator cracked the plasterboard and that had full length brackets to spread the load. It's all a bit ironic this - the chrome radiator looks...

Hi Grateful for your thoughts on this one... I've bought a nice chrome towel radiator for my bathroom and I need to fix it to a tiled stud wall. It's heavier than the little standard radiator it's replacing yet the wall brackets supplied seem less sturdy than old-style radiator...

PS - aoplogies for posting in the wrong forum. I meant for it to be plumbing - where did it end up? D'oh! MOD your projects :lol:

Thank you ChrisR. I was worried it might corrode the plastic or something horrible like that. In that case I think I'll leave it place as it's not going to get very heavy use. Agree that that it is nasty to use - but it aint half cheap! :) Ta Ian

Folks Would this stuff damage an acrylic bath if used to bed the waste? If so how badly? There was no mention on the bath instructions, but i noticed a warning on my resin shower tray that silicone should be used... Would rather not dismantle if possible!! Grateful as ever.. Ian...

No probs. I had a similar problem in my bathroom whereby there was no trap whatsoever. It's not pleasant! If you follow the bath's waste pipe out the house, you might find it joins to the main soil stack (where the toilet waste leaves the house). So all the bad air can come up the soil...

Does the bath have a waste trap under the plughole? Either a U bend or a bottle trap? If not, that would allow bad smells up from the waste pipes. If you do have a trap is possible that the water seal it is supposed to form is being drawn off, again allowing bad smells up. This can happen...

Thanks again for your responses. The bathroom has a posh tiled floor which I'm not about to dig up or replace. As such, lifting the tiles to run the pipe under the floor isn't an option. Also, the only place in the room the shower can go is about 2m from the waste outlet, so the tray does...

Thank you for your reply jpc. Sounds like good advice. I'll screw some good sized lengths down, and try to join them up for extra stability, but in way that still allows access to the pipes. Are you suggesting I don't use any gripfill, in case it all has to be removed? I think the front...

Hi Grateful for any tips on this one.... I'm fitting a resin quadrant shower tray with adjustable feet onto a solid floor. However, it needs to be raised higher to allow a proper fall for the waste pipes. From you guys' experience, is it acceptable to lay some lengths of timber on the...

If you want to make doubly sure of its strength, use a back board in the stud wall, and supplement it by using different fixings to those supplied with the shower. I'm about to do something very similar to you, and the shower comes with standard screws and wall plugs. However, I'm hoping to...

Cheers PTH. That tells me all I need to know! Oilman - if it's any compensation for the time and trouble I've so obviously inflicted on you, just think of me with my thumb stuck up the tap, spraying water all around the house.... :wink:

Hi all Do any of you have a guestimating technique for roughly judging water pressure without a gauge? The minimum recommended pressure for the mixer shower I'm looking at is 1bar, so I just wanted to do a rough check for confidence sake before ordering it.... Feel free to laugh at this...

Thank you both for your replies. Very much appreciated. :) The boiler is definitely a Combi - it does everything a combi should do (and I have no water tanks at all). It is however very old and if it causes problem with the shower I'm about to fit then I'll have to replace it ahead of...

Hi Can anyone explain how I can determine if my combi-boiler is "fully-modulating" (without getting a gas engineer in!). Every mixer shower manual says the boiler must meet this criteria for the shower to operate correctly. I have a definition of fully-modualting, but the boiler manual...

Thank you for your responses. It is much appreciated! However I remain a little confused as to how these mixer showers can vary so much in price without a detailed explanation of exactly what differentiates them. I can only assume that their internal pressure/temperature balancing devices...

Have a look at this shower as an option - the Mira Elite II. I tried to find a showroom somewhere that was able to demonstrate it, but failed to do so. I guess the bottom line is that any electric shower will only ever be as powerful as it's ability to heat the water. Consequently, I chose to...