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Boiler in garage, which is only 'room' on ground floor apart from entryway and stairs. Flow and return pipes disappear into brickwork next to boiler, with half a dozen rads at first floor, and five at second floor with two rad-style towel rails. No sign of a manifold anywhere. The radiator...

Our house is built into the side of a hill, and at ground level to the front we have a downstairs hallway with front door, and access to the garage via an internal door. All other accommodation at one and two floors up. The original builders didn't fit a radiator down there, and for years we've...

Asking for the in-laws. Their current oven is plugged into a standard UK 3-pin socket. They're looking to replace it, and we're struggling to get a definite answer, either from John Lewis, the retailer with it at sale price at the moment, or from the Bosch online installation instructions...

Elderly in-laws had CH serviced recently, and since then, the system has been making intermittent pipe noise - a low drone, lasting for about 15 seconds or so at a time. It's difficult to pin down an exact source of the noise, but they tell me it seems focused on one radiator, although it can...

Title says it all; friends moved into a home with an extensive underfloor system, but trying to figure out what they're missing about operation.....

I've got the head off to expose the moving metal pin which controls the flow; but this time I can't get the metal pin to move. Have done this once or twice before, and I used a spray of silicon lubricant to loosen them up. Now they seem to be locked solid. Was the silicon lubricant a big no-no...

The in-laws have what I would call a hairline crack in one of their cast-iron downpipes. The pipe as a whole seems to have been painted many times over the years, and it seems to me that the paint has peeled away and outward along the line of the crack to a width of 2mm or so, revealing the...

Would you? Do you? Bought a small batch of these on eBay, but OH noticed the "not suitable for home use" warning on the boxes. Previous thread on here suggests they generate more heat than domestic bulbs, and hence could overheat fittings. Any views on this (since that thread was in 2013)...

Need to provide some background; Original electrical installation in our utility room had one twin 13 amp socket plate above worktop, with two holes drilled in worktop, and two cables passing through worktop feeding washing machine and tumble dryer below. Ugly. On refurbishing the room, we got...

Relatives have a vintage Triton Spa Bath, with a cable-style remote control for the various functions. It's not working, hasn't done for many years, but I have no clear picture on what the fault symptoms are yet Local plumbers have forsaken them, won't touch the electrics. They had a...

Folks in the family are getting a standard boiler and hot water tank replaced with a combi, and it's been suggested that they could take this opportunity to get their cold water tank removed. All the showers in the house are electric, so the cold water tank feeds baths, basins and WCs. One...

Fitted a couple of B&Q own brand (Parkside?) halogen PIR security lights around 10-11 months ago. After a while, one started acting up and not switching off. Disconnected that a few days ago, and the other is now tripping the circuit breaker when it times out. Everything else on the same...

I want to put some deep wall fittings/fixings below the wall lights in one of my rooms. This is an external wall. Logic suggests that since the room has ceiling lights too, that the electricians/builders would have run the cable in the pitched roof void above the ceiling, and dropped them down...

Noticed damp patch on ceiling, and investigation in attic revealed a drip from the top section of the soil stack, above the level of all bathrooms. Air admittance assembly is at pitched roof level, then flexible pipe, connecting to solid pipe which takes a few right-angle bends before...

Recently had the boiler serviced, got the diaphragm that switches the hot water on and off replaced at same time. Shortly after this, it showed the 'blocked flue' red light, so got the engineer back, and he stripped it down, cleaned a few cobwebs and dead insects out of the flue, cleaned the...

If someone was hiring digital pianos to private households, would they need to be PAT tested?

Parent's house; persistent pipe hammer, even when no water appliances in the house are being used. Manifests itself as a loud THUMP or THUMP-THUMP, clearly audible in all parts of the house. Mains water feeds kitchen tap at ground level, and cold water tank in attic. Hot water comes from HW...

Is there an accepted norm? Fit the tap to the sink, then set the sink in the worktop? or, Set the sink in the worktop and fit the tap after?

Waterproof panels, apparently in same size as plasterboard or hardboard would be supplied in, fitted around baths or showers in lieu of tiling Is there a generic name for this stuff, apart from 'waterproof sheeting' (which sounds like 'tarpaulin' when you write it down.....)

...does each one have to have its own MCB ? Currently have one Mira Supreme in our en-suite, with its own MCB. The bathroom looks as though it was originally planned to have an electric shower as well; there's a mains pressure water pipe leading to the wall where the shower might have...