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I installed a painted glass splashback in my kitchen about 6 months ago using silicon as recommended by the supplier. I noticed recently it had slipped down the wall by about an inch so I removed it immediately. On removal I realised that only small patches of the silicon had actually been...

I replaced my vented hot water cylinder last year because the coil was leaking into it. The elbow connector that joined onto the thread of the prefitted coil was vertical when fully tightened on the old cylinder, but on the new cylinder it's a few degrees past the vertical (nearer the 11...

I'm fitting a chunky tubular radiator that has a 15mm reducer fitted for the valves to screw into. When I screwed the valves in I realised there was nothing for the valves to butt up to and they would keep going in until the valve body started to foul the edge of the radiator. On other...

Can any one recommend a good tool to remove lots of 1" copper pipe? I'm repiping my 1960's CH and there's loads of the original 1940's 1" stuff that I just want to hack out from under the floorboards. I'm thinking of something like bolt cutters or the like. At the section I can see at the...

I've recently uncovered some of our CH pipework and realised that the majority of it is a one pipe system. Only two of the upstairs radiators have separate flow and return pipes (and the return is 15mm). Putting a two pipe system in upstairs is quite a simple job, but is more difficult...

After partially draining our system to remove a radiator, I refilled and bled the radiators but I've noticed that the pressure gauge keeps dropping to almost zero. I keep using the filling loop to bring the pressure up to 1 bar, but within an hour it will have dropped to 0.5 bar even with the...