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Hi madrab. Our posts crossed. I'm sitting here at 'work' and I'm not sure what size pipe I used. I think I used 22mm going down to 15 mm for the shower, but I t'd the feed off to the bath taps, rather than t'd the shower feed off the bath pipe.

The run is about 30 ft, and the head is probably only about 4 ft. I wonder whether it's worthwhile raising the header tank.

So a while ago I re-plumbed my bathroom. We have an old boiler downstairs, water tank upstairs with a header tank in the loft. Against all good advice I teed the bath supply from the shower supply. It was takign ages for the hot water to come through on the shower, so we needed the cold tap...

That's what I thought. Thanks all.

Just had a measure up and I clear the units adequately, however there is a wall socket which, with a 70 cm hob, will be pretty close. What regs refer to plug socket proximity to hob on back wall?

Thanks for that. The one that's there looks like it's been plumbed in properly, with a stopcock and everything, which allowed me to isolate the hob easily. Between the stop and the hob is a screwed connection. I'm considering undoing this myself so i can lift the old hob off and prepare...

I am going to get a gas reg person in to do it. I wouldn't mess with gas with my children sleeping in the house. Hence my question. We're pretty skint at the moment and if it's going to elevate the cost of labour by putting a 5 ring burner in, i'll stick with a 4 ring. maybe you can answer my...

I'll be well within that. Good info, though. Thanks

I have no idea. There is currently about 15cms from the left edge to the side of the cooker, and about 30 cm's on the right edge to the beginning of a wall mounted cupboard. Your right in that the current unit is 60cm's. Will that keep me within regs?

My gas hob exploded today. Scared the living ££££ out of the OH! One of the nobs blew off and hit the ceiling and so did one of the burner rings. I've isolated gas and electric. My question goes like this. The hob needs to be replaced. At the moment it's a 4 ring burner and the fitting...

I've also noticed that the rotor arms aren't turning. When I open the door mid cycle they're in the same place, though there is water spraying from them. I thought the water was pumped from the bottom, through the spray arms, which made them turn, so can't quite figure this out. The water is...

Hello. I've had this machine for a few months. It's a cheap replacement but bought new and it's never been particularly good. Recently though it's been going through its cycle and we have streaked and dirty plates with particles dried on, also we keep finding the tablet part dissolved either in...

I'll do a before and after - how long it takes to toast bread. Results should be in next year.

Further - what's the overall effect of a rad cover with a fretworked frontage? does it reduce the output or net-effect noticeably?

I'm going to replace the windows at the back of the house myself as they're straightforward casement type. But the big windows at the front are 10 foot bays and I've heard plenty of awful stories about people trying to change them and then finding out the originals were providing structural...

I have a cold house. I can't afford to replace the windows, I've had cavity wall insulation done and I've done the loft myself. In my front downstairs room, as an example, there are two rads. They're quite old and one os 500mm wide th eother is 750 mm wide but they just don't heat the room...

just realised i shoul dhave posted this in teh heating bit. :roll:

I'm thinking of installing underfloor heating in my kitchen and I've a few questions you may be able to help with. I'm looking at an electric system with tiles on top. It'll be laid n a mixed concrete /timber substrate and the received wisdom seems to be a minimum of 10mm Marmox board as...

No. Can I access that through the hatch bottom/front? is there anything else really obvious I should check?

We've had some intermittent problems with our washing machine. Sometimes it won't complete a spin-cycle, this has been going on for some time, and more recently it's started stopping mid-cycle on a regular basis, now to teh point where it's virtually unusable. Sometimes we get it working...