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A chap in his eighties along the road is starting to have some difficulty in turning his neck fully, so is beginning to have problems reversing his car. He asked me about those parking sensors that bleep increasingly as one reverses closer to a stationary vehicle. Anyone able to advise on...

Hi there We are experiencing a damp patch in the bedroom ceiling and wall when it rains – a regular occurrence, recently. I have got on to the roof to check the chimney area from where seems to be immediately above the damp area. I have poured a bucket of water over the flashing and certainly...

A central heating system has stopped working following a new thermostat being replaced. This is a general system boiler, vented with pumped CH and gravity HW. The boiler ignites properly for the HW, but the pump does not respond despite the thermostat being on. I have checked the stat with a MM...

Can anybody give me the name or, better still, a link to the type of adaptor that allows for a plastic wastepipe (32, 40 or 50mm) to be connected to a cast iron soil stack. I have seen these before but cannot remember who manufactures them and have not been able to google anything resembling...

My mate’s washing machine has recently started failing to fully discharge its waste. He lives on the top (7th) floor of a high rise and has used the machine successfully here for about 20 years or so. Currently on removing the load at the end of the cycle about an inch of water is still in the...

I need to replace a mixer shower in a bathroom. The old shower valve is a Mira, the new is a Grohe and there is a 150mm distance between outlets on both which would appear to make fitting the replacement straightforward. There is, though, a problem. The Grohe comes ready-fitted with tap...

A friend has had a leak in the bathroom of his leasehold local authority flat. This was due to a tap connector on the basin that had worked loose. I have now fixed this but in the process took a look under the bath to check out the future fitting of a replacement bath/shower mixer. The cold...

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In order to obtain an improved flowrate to his shower a friend of mine had a pump installed a while back. This has proven to be pretty troublesome due to the nature of the installation. How difficult is it to actually raise the CW cistern in the attic by half a metre so? Also would this make...

A friend has given me the keys to his property in order that I could chang a leaking stopcock whilst he is away on holiday. This is on a cw cistern in an attic. One thing I noticed was that the HW vent pipe had what looked like a wastevalve (without ring) attached to the end with another section...

As I was going to charge my mobile this morning I noticed that the little brass socket that the charger plugs into is missing. Unable to find it anywhere but I wonder if it is possible to obtain this sort of thing. It’s a Nokia 3300 (shaped rather like Keith Richard’s kidney). I have had it 5...

A friend of mine has contacted me and describes a problem re her washing machine. After having successfully completed a cycle she switches off the appliance and removes the items from the drum. Sometime later the drum has become partly full of previously discharged water, perhaps containing...

I have recently installed a 30inch element into a 900 x 450 HW cylinder. Though the HW connection is below the bottom of the dome I would have expected this to be quite sufficient for providing enough hot water for showering. This, though, is not the case. The element gets hot and hot water is...

I want to instal a washing machine in the bathroom next to a back-to-wall WC. A 40/110 boss adapter will need to be fixed to the top of the horizontal soilpipe to which the WC is connected. Are the solvent weld type adaptors best for this sort of thing or would this be preferable? Also, in view...

Manufacturer: Vokera Model: Linea 28 There has been a problem on our boiler for some months where the pressure drops to zero - the user manual states that this should normally be between 1 and 1.5 bar when cold. I drew this to the attention of the engineer prior to its annual service in...

A long-standing leak from a bath (now resolved) has resulted in damage to the lower part of the bath panel. The panel itself is of a wood based construction, but the lower part is MDF and it is this piece that has absorbed the water like a sponge and will need to be replaced. Is it best to...

I have been having some real problems trying to get a standard plastic connector (at the end of the flush pipe) to fit securely into the aperture at the rear of a back-to-wall WC. After using a small amount of silicone on the connector and it failing to remain watertight I tried instead using a...

Anybody have any ideas to how I can solve this problem? :shock: On Sunday a friend of mine said she had a leak under her plastic kitchen sink seemingly from the waste fitting. Upon inspecting the waste I found that the plastic screw that holds the grate to the waste was broken so there was...

I need to make a repair to a split in the flexible overflow hose on a bath. Ideally I would replace the hose but access to this is very difficult as the tap end (and waste end) of the bath are positioned into an alcove area. It is therefore impossible to reach the point where the hose joins the...

I wondered if anybody might haver seen this type of loo. Sorry but I do not have a picture. The basin is made of plastic and is in two pieces, an upper and lower half. The bottom half is screwed to the floor and the upper half sits on top. There is a plastic gasket between these halves The...