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That was in fact the plan- on my way over today I stopped by my local plumber's merchant- Water-Loo and showed them a pic of the defective stop valve. The guy there immediately discerned from the pic that the valve had female ends (or something) and told me that it'd be a real faff to replace...

TBH unless you're sitting 4' or less from the screen there's not much to be gained by having FullHD on a 32". Apparently a good human eye can discern detail down to one minute of arc. I did the maths once and worked out that I'd have to be within about 6' of a 42" to even begin to see the...

Well I took the stillsons to it, after getting my friend to shut off the main water feed to the whole house. I'm not a small guy, in fact my hobby is powerlifting, but I had to really haul on it, and after about half a turn the whole 90 degree elbow coming out of the top of the tank began to...

Righto. We'll go and perform some further investigation with the hot taps. I think it's a mixer tap to slightly complicate matters but I suppose now the header tank's empty there should be nothing coming out of it on either setting! Then I'll gingerly try and remove the top pipe nut. I only have...

I am loathe to remove any of the top inlets of the tank to syphon it until I'm sure that it's not filling from any of the other pipes (I am convinced that it cannot possibly now be filling from the empty header tank in the loft). I'm deducing that it's still full by rapping the tank with my...

Dan, Thanks very much for the quick reply. I can easily get into the top of the tank by removing the immersion heater, assuming it will come out. Can easily syphon out of the window. The boiler is off but the tank still seems to be filling somehow, and definitely not from the header tank...

Hi all, I'm trying to help out an old friend here. I won't go too deep into the circumstances here, but long story short through some unfortunate circumstances he's got himself into a bit of a pickle. His hot water cylinder (in a cupboard in his upstairs bedroom) is leaking where the cold...

How did this turn into a north-south race war? You're all nuts. Good work! :D I resent that suggestion sir, they were all head hairs :oops:. Anyway, yes it's leaking from the top. I would undo the screw but I can't find my screwdriver in this tip of a flat :roll:. I take it that once I've...

Thanks for the quick replies guys :D. Hmm.... that doesn't sound easy. It's behind the bog, and getting in there to undo stuff will be difficult. Here's a couple of pics. Hey, I'm not so drunk after all :wink: ....eww the hairs. Shouldn't have married a woman with thick black...

The bath in our (rented) flat has started leaking- we noticed when the carpet around it was constantly soaked. Having taken the side of the bath off and investigated, it seems that the bond between the metal bit of the drain pipe and the fibreglass bath has come loose, and so when you put any...