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I've replaced my shower pump because the old one (Stuart turner showermate twin 1.3 bar) leaked. The new one is the same but 1.8 bar. It seems to work fine when the temperature setting is slightly too hot, but when I turn it down a bit, the pump/flow becomes intermittent and/or stops. when...

When i try to turn the hot tap on in the bathroom sink, it turns a little bit but then gets stuck before any water comes out. Is this a washer issue? Here's a picture of the tap. Any advice on what the problem is and what I need to do to fix it would be much appreciated. Thanks Rich

Hi all, my house has one of the old style fuseboards for the mains electrics. This morning I went to have a shower and found that the pump wasnt working, then found other electrics that weren't working. I took off the cover of the fuseboard and it looks like there is a black stain where the...

Hi All. We have a cold water tank in the loft (there's a littel expansion tank there too) and the cover/jacket had fallen in. There was never any rigid cover on it or anything. So now we've removed the cover and thrown that out, but there are bits of foam in the tank and the water is murky...

Hi, I've bought a hanger to fix on the wall which i then can hang my guitar on, like you get in a shop. Its got two holes for screws but annoyingly these werent supplied. What length of screw is it advisable to use? ill be using a wall/rawl plug too cos its going in brick walls. Its an...

Just painted the skirting boards, we masked the wall above. Did two coats of wood/metal paint satin finish. When we took the masking tape off it little bits of the new paint off with it. it also happened on the window frame we painted what can we do to avoid this in future? CHeers, Rich

hello, my house has a conventional open vent system. whenever the heating is on, the cold tap in the bathroom (which is fed from the storage tank in the loft) comes out hot. any ideas what this could be? cheers, Rich

ive got a macerator - a 'munch master' - under one of our double sinks that i want to take out and reconnect to the normal sink drainage pipework. Is there anything i should be particularly careful about? on the face of it looks like a straight, 'take thing out, put new pipework on' kind of...

had a quote to replace our existing ideal concord boiler (water tank in loft, hot water cylinder) in a like for like replacement, it included a Baxi solo 15 he (i think it was this model but cant remember without looking at hotmail which i cant get on at work). my question: is this an ok...

Hello, i need to bleed a radiator at home, but the square bit that you put the bleed key onto has been worn away and now the bleed key wont grip it. Is there any other way to bleed it apart from trying to use pliers?

Hello all, last week our programmer (british gas UP1) stopped working, the display started fading, and although we could change between on, timed, once and off, it would not send a signal to the heating/hot water. Over a couple of days the display completely faded away. Ive bought a...