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Well, now i have the taps fitted however from both the cold and hot taps there is a very slow leak, few drips a minute. It is definaly coming fromthe place the taps join to the pipes. When i removed the old taps there were no washers, so i figured they were not needed. IS this foolish and...

HI I have removed some my old bath taps and the original fittings appear to fit new taps. However, when removing the hot water tap i had to only turn the tap about 1.5 turns to release it from the fitting. The fitting on the pipe is barrel shapped whit a nut shape at top, the tap appears to...

Hi Ive never really done any kind of plumbing work before and getting a plumber in is unfortunatly financially not possible. I want to fit a new bath/shower mixer tap myself, after removing the old taps (which hopefully shouldnt be too bad, hopefully) i was thinking: cut the pipe back a...

Hi I wonder if you can offer some guidance with this issue. I want to knock down a wall in my house that has a double socket on it. The socket has obviously been added fairly recently as the cables are not sunk into the wall. This wall is under the bath i have got the floorboards up and...

Hi After reading various posts on here about getting a smooth surface to paint on, it seems like some gyproc easy-fill is the best solution for smoothing out my walls. I was wondering how, is this stuff applied ? Is it just stuck on with a trowel and smoothed out with a float ? Ive got to...