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Hi. I have just had a shower tray installed. Before everything else is tiled, how do I make sure the installation is such that everything will drain properly and I won't have to be squeegeeing the shower tray? Should the ball fall towards the drain; should the whole tray be sloped towards the...

Hi, I have a very old bathroom with a very old central heating system, back boiler in living room with hot water cylinder upstairs and cold tank in loft. Currently, the bathtub and toilet are tank fed, and the basin cold is mains fed. I am getting the bathroom ripped out and replaced. What...

Hi, I've got an old, pretty small (1.8m x 1.5m) bathroom I'm looking to get redone. It's the only one in the (3 bed) house. I would quite like to get rid of the bathtub and put in a new shower enclosure, toilet and sink - and probably go for fully tiled this time instead of half-tiled. However...

Hi, looking for a plumber to do about a day's worth of work on my house in West London (Harrow area) - changing a basin and some taps, if anyone's interested. Thanks!

Hi, got an old Baxi Bermuda 552 in need of servicing if anyone can work on back boilers. Harrow area. Thanks!

The electrics in my 3-bed mid-terrace house are pretty old, with an old Wylex fusebox. I would like to get an induction cooker (30-45A), and there's currently no cooker circuit (and no space in the fusebox). I had an electrician round who suggested if I didn't want to upgrade the fusebox right...

Hi all, Around a month ago, my old gas hob started pulsing (the ring spits up a bit, making a noise) every few seconds. It varies between the four rings - one is completely fine, one is nearly fine, one pulses a bit, and the other a lot. The flames are still pretty much blue, and all four rings...

Hi. Today my kitchen mixer tap broke (head snapped off the cartridge). Pic of the tap: From a quick Google, it's an obscure cartridge so I'm better replacing the tap. However, I have an old heating system with a Baxi back boiler and a cold tank in the loft and hot water in upstairs airing...

Hi. I have an old house with a number of old taps I am hoping to replace with newer designs. None of the taps currently have flexi tails or isolation valves, but I can turn the water off upstream. I haven't changed a tap before (though have done some plumbing), so for each I am looking for...

Hi. I have just removed an old single wall socket. I am considering how best to blank off the wires - they are quite thick, and a fridge-freezer will now be backed up to the wall, so I guess it needs to be well-protected from the grill on the back of the fridge, and also as flat as possible as...

I recently replaced the glands and heads of two very old (20 years?) traditional sink basin taps using https://www.toolstation.com/lever-basin-tap-reviver-kit/p70902 - so they are now quarter-turn. However, they now make a loud whooshing/screeching noise - particularly on the cold side as it is...

Hi, I have an old kitchen mixer tap which has gradually deteriorated - it is now quite clunky and takes a lot of force to fully close it. I want to leave the plumbing alone if possible (so not replace the whole tap). However, firstly I can't see how to open it up - I can't see a cap to pop...

A few weeks back, there was some rattling coming from my Hyundai i10. Checked the muffler and it was very loose, so figured that was the noise. It snapped off at one of the pipes on the way to the garage (had rusted through), so removed it, and there was no noise for the rest of the journey...

Will be decorating the bathroom, so figured I should take the radiator off. And it's an eyesore (paint is flaking all over, and some areas of rust), so shouldn't just put it back as is. It's an old central heating system with a back boiler, and don't think rads have ever been changed, or at...

I have a scaffold tower on rent for 2 more days from which I can (just about) reach this tile, so would like to fix it/pay some roofer to use my tower to fix it in the next 2 days. As pictured, the bottom one of the large roof tiles between mine and my neighbour's house slipped down a bit a few...

The front and back patios were neglected for many years, and were full of weeds. A few months back, I had a maintenance guy come round to work on them. Back patio - he pressure washed and nothing more. This knocked out a load of the existing pointing, leaving it a crumbly mess of empty channels...

With all the energy price rises, I am reviewing my energy wastage. The CH in my house is a (very) old Baxi Bermuda back boiler. The heat exchanger was replaced around 5 years ago. It hasn't been serviced since, and occasionally the pilot light has gone out and I've had to relight it a few times...

I am preparing to hire a scaffold tower to paint my upstairs wooden window frames. While I'm at it, I figured it would be a good idea to clean the gutters and whatever else needs doing. I noticed this flaky black paint - touching it, it's wood. The white part looks fine, but the black is all...

Several years ago, a plumber set my hot water temperature to be very high to stop the (small) cylinder from running out of water. I now want to reduce the temperature to save on bills. It is electric immersion only. I located the thermostat under the jacket. I used a screwdriver to move the...

Last autumn, I cleaned out the central heating system (old back boiler with F&E) with X400, and dosed with X100. It hadn't been touched for a good few years prior to that. A few months later, I find this gunge in the tank (stringy/white stuff) which Google tells me is probably bacterial and...