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I've a 28kW combi boiler, which is less than 5 metres of pipe from the bath.

The cold water supply is mains pressure, and the taps I went for said suitable for all pressure systems, but a minimum of 1 bar. I'd already ordered by the time I saw you mentioning mains pressure. "This tap has a minimum water pressure requirement of 1bar. This makes it suitable for all...

Amazing news :) I can get modern taps in my bathroom... I fancy those waterfall ones. Thanks!

I'm sprucing up my bathroom, and I'm going to be changing my bath taps and waste. At the moment there are two individual pillar taps around 6 inches apart. Edit : Measured and it's 7 inches / 180mm Ideally I'd like a mixer instead. I notice most mixers for baths have two inputs and I'm...

Aha. There's a tiny little screw that they've hidden quite well on each part. It's not an allen head, just a flat head, but it's enough I guess to stop it slipping back over the fitting. You've described how it works exactly. I'll put up a couple of pics later on just for completeness.

Not really plumbing, but I think it's where it's the least worst fit! I bought a load of bathroom fittings - shelves, toilet roll holder, soap holder, etc etc. They all have fittings which take a couple of screws into wall plugs. Over the top of these fittings the chrome goes, and hides...

Yep, that's why I went for that. I only took the SDS Hammer drill because it was available at the same price as a percussion. I thought I was getting an added extra, rather than either a drill that can be made to be a normal drill, but works badly. I'll never really know if it was faulty or...

I did send it back - and it was stolen in the post. I've now had a refund in full from the carrier, and all is well. I bought a Makita percussion drill instead, and it doesn't wobble like that at all.

Yeah, the new drill I bought does all of that. The variable trigger isn't linear, it's cleverly designed so that you have very good control over the speed, the first 1/4 of it is incredible slow turning, so you have proper control. I usually put a small hole in first of all, and I'll...

Too thin... in the end I did it without washers. I just was very careful with the screws, only putting them in far enough to hold the rack, but not to contort it. It's up now and the only issue is a slight bit of plaster that came away from one of the edges.. I'll fix that once I'm done with...

I still don't think I've got the solution to this spice rack. I refuse to fail a third time so I want to do as much as I can to control any problems before I go near it. First of all I'm going to wait until the RCD has been replaced. Just in case. Secondly I have a new drill coming...

Any ideas on how to find the washers I'm after? Searching online for them is like a needle in a haystack - is there a particular word for what I'm after?

If you mean for me to do it then that's not possible Joe. The bath is already fitted - some 20 years ago. If I was to straighten the bath up I'd need to remove the shower screen, the door into the bathroom, and the skirting boards and redo them all. If you're meaning it shouldn't have...

Well, the cable is patched, I've plastered it a few times until it's smooth and I've just painted over the top of it. In an hour it'll be invisible. However I'm still left with a spice rack I've now failed twice to put on a wall. It shouldn't be as difficult as I'm finding it, however I...

The problem I think has been there for a while. It's been made worse because I have a bath every evening and a shower in the morning. I don't think the previous occupant did. When my dad siliconed it he filled up the whole cavity behind, he forced the strip off to do this. Unfortunately...

Decided not to. I kept noticing the expensive high end stuff... which I can't afford at present. Turns out I could easily get it done, and not with basic nasty stuff, within budget but I'd always feel I wasn't getting quite what I wanted, so I'll leave off until I can afford to get exactly...

Floor to be tiled too.... Sadly there's a window on the wall opposite the door, so the only option is to have the shower part of the bath in the middle of the room. The towel rail is gas heated (it's the heat dump of the system) and it's on the wall opposite the bath at the moment. If it...

So the o part of the P has to go against two walls? That is what I had feared. I had hoped it would be possible to have a glass wall as an option for the bath and have the shower screen fitted to that, and the shower itself on the wall. It pretty much rules it out because one wall has the...

Would you mind answering some questions on what I'm thinking might (probably won't) fit in the bathroom? At the moment there's just a council bath from the 80s. White, but nasty. I'd like one of those shower baths, however it's too wide to go at the door, so the bulge in it would have to...

Ah, I see. I think I'd agree with you. He does have a point though... it's possible that for example a heating engineer isn't busy and takes on a bathroom fitting job while he hasn't done one for 15 years... It's not the case here though. :)