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I live in a chalet bungalow. Some years ago when I had a new boiler fitted, the installers draining my cold tank and refilled the system afterwards without any problems. Three times in the past couple of years I've drained the cold tank myself, twice when I replaced a different tap washer...

Further news. The "new" upstairs toilet failed a few days ago (the dual flush kept flushing) so while I wait for the installer to fix it (hopefully!), I've turned off the water valve to the cistern. The water hammer problem at the mains kitchen tap has now gone away completely! So it was this...

You guys are right. I tied up the ball valve and the problem went away. But I only replaced that ball valve a year ago. (The old one was allowing a continual drip so that the cold tank overflowed through the overflow pipe down the roof.) What is it doing wrong? Does it need one of those...

For the past few months, I get water hammer when I turn the kitchen cold tap off suddenly. I've never had that in the previous ten years. The solution is to turn the tap on again and then off more slowly. The only thing that is different with my plumbing since all this started is that I had...

Not now the wall tiles are all in place !

The new flooring for my bathroom will be at a slightly higher level than the bottom of the bath panel. Fine if I never want to remove the panel but supposing I do? (The panel has to be lifted up and tilted out at the bottom; currently it has a silicone beading at the bottom which can be sliced.)...

I have had a new upstairs loo fitted (as mentioned in my previous post). The flooring is yet to be done (by somebody else altogether but not yet decided upon) The bathroom fitter sealed the loo with sealant around the floor but didn't install any brackets to hold it in place. (However my...

I have had a new upstairs loo fitted. The flooring is yet to be done (by somebody else altogether but not yet decided upon) The bathroom fitter sealed the loo with sealant around the floor but didn't install any brackets to hold it in place. (However my downstairs loo, fitted 2005, has no...

As my upstairs bathroom was having a towel rail fitted and the radiator removed, the central heating was drained to the appropriate level from a radiator in the kitchen. This is a Quinn roundtop radiator, fitted in 1997. When the system was refilled, there was a whole load of air trapped in...

This must be the easiest question to answer but I'm a little confused!! In my two storey chalet bungalow, I've had the upstairs loo removed for a couple of days prior to a new loo being installed. The connection to the loo inside the bathroom is therefore temporarily a big open pipe joining...