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Almost not strictly DIY but I hope someone can offer some opinions. 1. I have an old (probably 15years +) Saunier Daval gas boiler that supplies my heating and hot water. I live in a converted flat so have no water tank, the water is heated as it comes through. It is virtually impossible to...

felix: I am in a block of three flats (a conversion). There is a stopcock on the kitchen pipes, I'll try turning it off and seeing what happens. I don't understand though why I would still have hot water and not cold if the supply has been turned off? PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN: Thats helpful...

erm... I have a gas boiler that provides my heating (with radiators) and hot water, if that's what you mean :) (can you tell I'm not an expert with this stuff!?)

thanks shaggy, all rates definitely paid, and the hot water in the kitchen is working as normal, so there is water there, just not cold water. Also, I have no tank, all water is piped in directly, although from two different main pipes I think. ferdinanddebargos, I'll try and look inside the...

Can anyone help with this? Used the cold tap in my kitchen mixer tap at around 8pm, everything normal. Go to use it again at around 10pm, no water. Still nothing now, although hot tap is working normally as are hot and cold taps in bathroom. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help. Topps tiles has come up trumps :)

more of a product question than a how to, apologies if it's in the wrong place. Can anyone help with sources of silver coloured wall tiles? Preferably matt, but would consider sparkly shiny ones too. Size is also flexible - I need to tile a section behind a cooker, so not mosaic but what I...

Thanks for your advice ChrisR and htgeng. PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN will be thrilled to hear that I don't have a big enough wrench to take the tap off - I took a guess that that was the way to take a tap apart - so tomorrow I guess I'll either have to buy a bigger tool, or a new tap. I'm slightly...

First time poster here, and this might be an incredibly basic question, but I hope someone can help (without laughing too much!) In the last 4-5 days the hot water tap in my kitchen has become incredibly stiff, in the last day or so it has been a real battle to turn on and off at all. The...