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Overall, it's using a truckload of gas... probably close to the £200pm you mention. Just that the boiler heats up the CH water to 72 deg and then stays there. It doesn't use much to keep it at 72 deg (the meter rotates quite slowly - say 1 cu. ft/min). When the boiler is warming up the water...

Hi folks, Just moved house into 1930s detached. Slowly discovering all the DIY bodges that have been implemented before! A previous owner had converted one of the bedrooms to a shower room. We are about to start work on reverting it back to a bedroom. Fairly simple: pull of tiles, remove...

Sorry folks - wrong forum. I'll move to plastering/rendering which where I thought I was. Ta!

Hi folks, Just moved house into 1930s detached. Slowly discovering all the DIY bodges that have been implemented before! A previous owner had converted one of the bedrooms to a shower room. We are about to start work on reverting it back to a bedroom. Fairly simple: pull of tiles, remove...

Hi folks, Just moved house into 1930s detached. Slowly discovering all the DIY bodges that have been implemented before! A previous owner had converted one of the bedrooms to a shower room. We are about to start work on reverting it back to a bedroom. Fairly simple: pull of tiles, remove...

I second that about tiling on to wood. One of my first mistakes was to do some boxing in with softwood... at least 2 things can happen: If the boxing in is over a pipe that gets warm, the heat from the pipe can warp the wood, hence popping the tiles off. When you apply the wet adhesive...

Rico, Thanks for speedy response. This is what I feared. I will post a pic tomorrow to illustrate the problem - there is a rad on the other side of the wall and the installers decided to tee off the pipes in the bathroom and go through the wall rather than go under the floor! (Think this...

Hi, We are doing up our bathroom and we bought a chrome towel rad that has the fitting connections on the bottom. The current rad in the bathroom has the fittings on the side. Ordinarily I would move the pipe under the floor, but it has been tinkered with by previous owners for a loft...

Jefoss, Thanks for the response. I can deal with a slight colour difference. Leaks would test my patience. Cheers, Ben

Hi, Just a quick one: Due to a c*ck up with the people that installed my bath, I had to re-install it (which involved removing the bottom row of tiles). Grrrr :evil: Anyway, wall is good again for the bottom row - but the problem is that the whole wall was already grouted. I am a bit...

Thanks for the advice chaps. Was gonna do that anyway, but some of the stuff on here can make you really paranoid.

Thanks ofr the response - I should have been more clear. I am using waterproof grout, but reading through the forums everybody says "waterproof grout isn't really waterproof - waterproof only means it won't break down, not form a barrier to water". So, I assumed that if this is correct...

Hi, Am currently re-tiling around a bath/shower. Am curious to know how to prevent the problem shown in my rather cruddy pic. Basically, where the tiles meet the bath, how come any water that has been absobed by the grout not seep down the grout lines and then behind the silicon seal...

Hi, Quick question about fitting a thermostatic shower valve: In my parents' house they have a shower that is currently fed by a mixer tap. This causes problems every time someone flushes the loo, turns on a tap elsewhere, etc. They are considering fitting a thermostatic mixer tap, but...

Hi All, I searched for this through the forums - lots of info came up but none seemed to be recent. I have a whirlpool bath and it needs connecting to the ring main. The ring main passes through the wall of the bathroom - there are a couple of sockets on the outside of the bathroom wall...

Hi, I recently replaced the leaking valves that connected my Halstead Quattro to the CH loop. Necessarily I had to drain the system and refill. Since I have refilled it sounds like there is air in the system. I have bled the radiators and the pump and assumed the AAV would vent anything...

OK.. so I like life and the vent isn't that annoying. How come most of the other houses I have lived in haven't had one? Maybe because the windows were always badly fitting and provided ventilation by mistake! :shock: