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My only suggestion is to talk with your upstairs neighbour, perhaps let them come in and hear what you are talking about, so between you, you might find some way to cure some of these unwanted noises. Pre-formed foam pipe lagging perhaps, accessed from their flat pushed down the cavity...

Best answer I heard, brilliant :D :D

The pipework is still under pressure, albeit not by much, as the header tank in the loft will be topped up with water. Quite a head of water above. Has Mrs Realpolitik been round with the hoover a bit too rigerously lately :wink: and knocked it!

Just out of interest, is your neighbour a large family, five persons or more! If so, then that will be a reason NOT to install a water meter to their property, as it would be cheaper on the old rateable costings. If they are a couple only, then it would make financial sense to install...

It's going to be difficult for you to make a boss of some firm who thinks this standard of workmanship is ok, to persuade him otherwise and for him then to rectify and make a good job of it. Stopping any further payments on account will probably escalate the problem further, but I can't see...

Have you had the Governor of the firm come and inspect the quality of his firms work. The actual installer may have a gripe with him, his employer and could not care a less what he is doing, taking it out on your install. You may find he condemns it straight away and puts it right, without...

Have you tried soaking/cleaning shower rose in lime scale remover and 'pricking' the holes in the rose with a pin/needle or whatever! to increase the flow.

A lot of the rigidity is gained from the copper pipe work connecting up the tap underneath. With the use of flexible hose connections, you don't get this. My kitchen monotap is plumbed in with flexi hoses and it wobbles no mater how tight the holding nut is below. The thickness of the...

All down to aesthetics really. Installers when fixing rads to walls, have their own preferences of setting the rad heights, most level bottom of rad with top of skirting, some an inch above or below, whatever they do, as long as it looks ok. If all your rads in the house, upstairs and...

Neat job 8)

Not disputing the ridiculous charge of £730 to insurance company, but why did BG not then come back and mend the stop valve/cock with debris in it, as another job the next day. They still had £1000 less the £730 = £270 to spend. Looks like BG missed out on that one, at a full hours work and...

Here in Southern Water area, if you have all rainwater going into soakaways and no surface water from drive gullies etc. and not into the main sewer, you can claim an annual reduction on your water bill..................all £18 of it :shock:

Richard C. I had a situation having to use waste for both basin and bath, and found this at Wickes www.wickes.co.uk/invt/424903 I put it in-line, on the horizontal waste pipe run from the shallow seal bath trap underneath the bath. It certainly worked, stopped the gurgling at the bath...

Great, you know now what to do when the other one starts to drip :roll: :D

Better then to take the radiator off the wall altogether and blast it with the hose outside. Take a bit of time etc draining it down with the risk of spoiling Mr or Mrs CMBerry20's carpet. :shock: If full of black stuff, a good shake down out side is more satisfying. Also read the tin on...

Squirt some WD40 or something in it then over night :idea: Try tapping it gently upwards turning the handle quarter turn as you go, thereby getting an even force.

In your second right way up photo, is that a flush screw under the cross head handle. Perhaps you can unscrew that to release the cross head and gently tap it upwards, preferably with something wooden.

As the diaphragm ages/deteriorates, it stretches, so needs a good flow of water to push it up and fire boiler. So pop in a new diaphragm and clean the governor.

If you now have the manual and you feel confident, why don't you remove the governor and clean it. It really is not difficult to do. Turn water off and open hot tap at sink, watch out for surplus water escaping when you undo brass nut!

If ****es me off when someone can charge £102 for doing absolutely **** all!