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Hi I am having a problem with my gas heating system - all the radiators in the house and the pipes supplying them are cold but there is hot water in the cylinder. Does this mean there is a problem with the pump?

Hiya I have a small bathroom which I tiled with "bargain" tiles from B&Q. I must have a screw or nail loose under one of the tiles because it has cracked twice just from someone putting a fair bit of weight on it. The line of tiles has been discontinued in B&Q so I've decided to tile over the...

Hi Felix - thanks for your interest Your suspiscion is correct. The switch has two rockers - one for a bathful and another for a sinkful. Has for the wiring: 3core + earth from cylinder to switch Blue wire - no markings on terminal Brown wire - terminal marked 1 WAY...

The black is connected to the terminal marked "OUT2" on the switch and the brown is connected to termian marked "1WAY". Or do you mean what is the black connected to at the connection with the cylinder.....?

I'll check and post it back here later today/tommorrow..thanks

Hi I have just bought an "easy-wire" 7-day timer switch for my immersion heater that I was going to wire up myself (I've done a bit of wiring on sockets/lights etc). Problem is the installation instructions in the new switch assume the wiring is twin+earth, but in my case, one of the...

My gas supply has been switched off for some time during renovatations . I had a plumber in the other day re-piping the heating system and I am about to reconnect the gas supply. The plumber fired up the boiler and said that even though there is no gas supply, I should be able to hear the...

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I've just given a plumber the keys to my house so that he can spend the afternoon running the pipework for my central heating system. The problem is, he came into the house with armloads of plastic pipe. Now he said there would be no problems, but I've looked elsewhere in this forum and I...

Do you need to seal plasterboard before applying a skim coat of plaster?

Hi - Just about this post (if anyone is still reading!)....I've just put down T&G floorboards on a concrete floor, but I've glued battens down over the DPM and the insulation and then nailed the floorboards to the battens. Whats the difference between this and just having it floating...

Thanks kevplumb - it's only going to have to be enough to out in front of the cabinets to where the gas fitter can connect. Was going to just bend the pipe rather than use fittings...

Quick question - I am laying down a new kitchen floor and then installing a new kitchen with gas hob. Don't worry - I intend to get a registered professional to do all the gas work. At this stage I need someone run a new gas supply pipe from the mains supply to the new hob so that I can then...

I'm getting plasterers in to do a skim coat on all of my walls next week. When they are finished I intend to put down pine floorboards in the same rooms. Can I start the 2-week acclimatisation for the floorboards now - or should I wait until the plaster is fully dry? ie. will the moisture from...

Aren't shower trays supposed to have a slight slope? The reason I ask is that I have just installed a shower cubicle following the instructions provided with the shower tray I bought in B&Q. These instructions state that the plinth on which the tray rests must be completely level and that the...

I've just finished putting in a new ceiling in my bathroom and have a very small (less than 1 inch) gap between the ceiling and the (also new) tiles on the wall. Is there such a thing as coving for bathrooms? I'm assuming normal plaster coving is unsuitable - plastic coving maybe? Or do I...

When you say the above do you mean that I could replace each of the 3 single wires connected to the light switch with single and earth? Does that mean I would have connect each of the 3 earth conductors to the earth terminal on the switch? Thanks a million for your help...

Hi The hot water in my kitchen sink is supplied from the cylinder via buried pipes which run from the cylinder to the bath and on to the kitchen sink (the house is a bungalow). The flow from the kitchen sink hot tap is a dribble whereas the flow from the bath hot tap is fine. Am I right...

Thanks both, The single core cables aren't in conduits - its a bungalow they are going all over the place up in the attic. It would be nice to have it all squared away just like it is in my nice DIY books... When I'm working on the electrics I try and do it bit-by-bit ie. I label...

Hi I've recently knocked a wall between two ground floor rooms and have found that the (concrete) floor of one of the rooms slopes along the new opening from a height difference of zero to a maximum difference of about three inches. Do I need to screed it with a sand/cement mix? I've...