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Hi Grateful for your experience and wisdom! I've got a bath shower mixer very much like the one pictured below. The tap handles are of the sort that only revolve a limited amount. However the hot one has started spinning loose (in either direction), and not opening or closing the valve...

Hi Living in an old and energy inefficient house, I've noticed something of a problem with TRVs. Just wondered if anyone would like to comment on the semi-baked theory I've got to explain it. :-) On very cold winter days the heating belts out for hours and the room warms up. Lovely...

Hi I have an Ideal condensing combi boiler, which has been faultless since bought a couple of years ago. However, my radiators have started to get hot despite the heating being switched-off. This is especially noticeable when the hot water is running. I know the pump is supposed to...

Can any of you guys tell me what the little nut on a check valve is for? eg. I was having trouble with the filling loop for my combi whereby the tap wouldn't close easily thus allowing pressure to rise in the central heating. Without thinking I tried turning the nut on the check...

Hi Have any of you guys experience of Wickes Real Wood Flooring? It's an engineered wood floor with a click together system hilariously entitled "fast fix". eg: http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/158009 I'm a fairly experienced DIYer, but this thing has me beat. Basically the...

Hi I hope this is a simple question... I've just had a new kitchen, and so had an electrician in to move a few sockets around and add a couple more. It's all in and working, but the electrician says he can't sign it off unless he gives me an RCD protected consumer unit for another £240...

Hi Grateful for your thoughts on this one... I've bought a nice chrome towel radiator for my bathroom and I need to fix it to a tiled stud wall. It's heavier than the little standard radiator it's replacing yet the wall brackets supplied seem less sturdy than old-style radiator...

Folks Would this stuff damage an acrylic bath if used to bed the waste? If so how badly? There was no mention on the bath instructions, but i noticed a warning on my resin shower tray that silicone should be used... Would rather not dismantle if possible!! Grateful as ever.. Ian...

Hi Grateful for any tips on this one.... I'm fitting a resin quadrant shower tray with adjustable feet onto a solid floor. However, it needs to be raised higher to allow a proper fall for the waste pipes. From you guys' experience, is it acceptable to lay some lengths of timber on the...

Hi all Do any of you have a guestimating technique for roughly judging water pressure without a gauge? The minimum recommended pressure for the mixer shower I'm looking at is 1bar, so I just wanted to do a rough check for confidence sake before ordering it.... Feel free to laugh at this...

Hi Can anyone explain how I can determine if my combi-boiler is "fully-modulating" (without getting a gas engineer in!). Every mixer shower manual says the boiler must meet this criteria for the shower to operate correctly. I have a definition of fully-modualting, but the boiler manual...

Hi I'm about to replace a bath-tap-mixer style shower with a cubicle and proper thermostatic mixer. It will be fed via combi boiler and rising main, and currently this provides adequate pressure (nothing spectacular). My question is this: is it worth buying a thermostatic mixer valve...