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The kitchen mixer tap is leaking. I have changed the very same taps 5 years ago. Could you please confirm if to change the washers I have to empty the immersion heater? To change the taps the water from the mains and from the immersion heater had to be switched off. When the repair was...

My house was constructed around 1986. It is a three-bedroom one, with a kitchen in the ground floor, three bedrooms and a bathroom I the first floor. The house is central heated with a 5-year boiler in the ground kitchen, an immersion heater and a shower pump in the first floor, and a water tank...

My house was constructed is a three-bedroom one, with a kitchen in the ground floor, three bedrooms and a bathroom I the first floor. The house is central heated with a 5-year boiler in the ground kitchen, an immersion heater and a shower pump in the first floor, and a water tank in the loft. I...

Could you please recommend a fuse box for a 4 bedroom house and 2 or 3 bathrooms? +++++++++++++++ please do not hijack threads //www.diynot.com/diy/threads/forum-rules-general-info.19448/ +++++++++++++++

A shower pump Salamander installed in my property no longer works. The water pressure in the shower is poor. I am not certain if the pump also controlled the water pressure in the cistern, as that is now also very poor. I need to know the following: 1 - Can the pump be repaired? 2 - Should I...

The original seal of the shower screen has become brittle and calcified. I do not know how to remove it without chipping the screen. Do you know how this is done? I tried pushing a sharp knife through the gap between the seal and the screen and push the seal down. It does not move.

My house was built around 1989. All the houses along my street have the same type of fuse box, and mine has so far cause no problem. (see below) The electrician believes that the wire in the relevant fuse switch should break if a socket along the circuit is in any way faulty. If this does...

I am currently living in a four storey building where the intake box for the communal stair lights is under the stairs between the ground and first floors. Possible malfunction of the timer to switch on and off the lights in the stairs persuaded the electrician to fit LED lights and leave the...

The heating in my house has been switch off during the summer months and the boiler checked in September. In September all the radiator warmed up without problem. Today, however, the radiators in the ground floor did not do so and there was a vibrating noise around the emersion heater. Few years...

TV reception in my property is extremely bad due to very tall trees outside my home. I would like to move the satellite dish from the front to the back of the house. I will not be able to change the location of the wire's entry into the house because to enter the seating room it would have to...

Builders have been refurbishing my flat. As part of the work they had to rewire the entire flat, change the fuse box and lower the ceilings. The fist thing they did was to remove the fuse box and fitted the false ceiling. After re-plastering the flat, installing a new fuse box, fitting...

I am trying to find a fitting to cover an external vent fitted from inside a flat, and without using a scafolding. I am thinking of something that functions like the Rawlplug Spring Toggle used for plasterboards. The idea is to be able to push the vent thru the hole on the wall, and...

The cost of bringing gas to my property and installing a central heating system is prohibitive. I am considering alternatives. I would like to be able to remove the internal cold water tank and the imersion heater and install instead an efficient electric boiler instead. is there one you...

I live in the top floor of a four-floor storey building. The flat will be completely refurbished and I am trying to decide on options. At the moment there is no gas supply to the flat. Do you have idea on costs for bringing gas to the flat (scaffolding, meter, etc) a new boiler 4...

I am planning the refurbishment of my flat and wish to replace a small water tank and a large immersion heater with a small immersion heater and a washing machine below, as show in the photographs. Washing machines are around 82 cm height, and the space inside the cupboard, from floor to...

I am planing to refurbish my flat and need to know if my fuse box fits my new electrical requirements. The label in my fuse box reads: 240 VAC 60 ADP 30 matrip As the pictures show the number of fuses are as follows: 5A - 3 15A - 2 30A - 4 45A - 1 I am planing to install 1 oven 1...

I have a shower pump Salamander series 119477 Wed 9-09 Pearl 50-Twin 230 V 50 Hz 20 Am For some reason water presure in the shower (cold or hot) was minimum. I do not know what I should check. If the pump has to be replaced, could you please give me some idea of cost of pump and...

My neighbour has obained planning permision to extend his house along a passage below a small bedroom. I wish to apply my self to for a larger extension. The small bedroom is terribly cold because it is exposed in 2 walls, floor and ceiling. From my measurements one of the side walls is shared...

I had people staying in my house and do not know what they have done. The central heating system switch does not work consistently: 1 - When the switches for hot water and central heating are switched off, sometimes the light for hot water switch remains on and after a while switches itself off...