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I am thinking of fitting a tap for connection of a garden hose, but siting the tap indoors by utilising the cold water supply to the wash basin in the downstairs toilet (avoiding the need for a hole in the wall, outside piping, etc). Is it just a matter of inserting a tap into the wash basin...

Thanks 'clf-gas', but I think I need a bit more educating. (1) Is it the single nut I can see that is holding the tap on to the sink? (2) How are the tapered pipes attached to the tap - I can't see anything other than two tapered pipes entering the tap body. Also, everything seems to be...

Thanks for the responses. I'll give it a go later. If I can't get the nozzle off, or can't find a replacement, is it a specialised job to remove and replace the whole tap? Underneath the sink, I can see a long screw with a nut attached; the copper pipes seem to narrow down and disappear...

Thanks, but there seems to be no screw, bolt, or Allen key visible. Jass.

We have a monobloc kitchen tap with some damage to the swan neck swivelling spout. The main body of the tap is fine - is it possible to remove and replace the swan neck spout alone, without going to the lengths of removing the whole tap? Thanks in advance for any advice. Jass.

Thanks for the replies. Tonygerm & Strachan - Yes, both of those thoughts ocurred to me as well - didn't for the life of me dare flush the toilet! Joe-90 - Thanks for the positive suggestion. Plunger did no good so we got in a local 'drain man' who tackled the problem by going on the roof...

Thanks for the quick responses. As far as I have observed, the downstairs drainage is fine, but the upstairs also seem to be OK until a bathful of water is introduced into the system. I guess this is because the blockage is some way down the pipe and the toilet doesn't fill until the...

A problem appeared last night for the first time when emptying the bath - at first it appeared to be emptying as normal, with a lot of gurgling from the toilet, the pan began filling with soapy water! Left to its own devices, both the toilet and the bath eventually emptied. This took about 15...

Thanks everyone for all the interest. I'll try and answer as many of the questions as I can. The old solid fuel boiler was a Rayburn Rhapsody fuel burner with integral back boiler. The gas back boiler is a BAXI Bermuda 50/4E. The number of pipes on the old boiler I don't know, but I believe...

Softus, My apologies for breaching protocol, but thanks for the response. No pipework was changed; it was just a straight swap - out with the soilid fuel boiler, in with the gas boiler. As far as I can say, that was when the problem started. Your question relating to CH is interesting; I...

Thanks for the quick response 'doitall'. I don't think there's much more I can add. It's a single 3ft rad in the bathroom; entry and exit valves are both at the bottom; at each end a 6 inch length of pipe descends into the floor and (I think) then must run horizontally under the floor to where...

Thanks 'doitall', but I'm not sure that slidge is the problem. On the occasions the rad does get hot it happens quite quickly and is uniformly hot top to bottom. How would I deal with an 'airlock in the return'? Thanks in advance. Jass.

I hope nobody minds if I jump onto the back of this thread, but I notice that there are some knowledgeable people involved in the topic. I also have a gravity radiator. This is on a gas fired back boiler system (previously solid fuel), and my problem is that the rad struggles to get hot at...

Nige F, 50 years plumbing experience *and* nearly 3000 posts to the forum! You should be writing a book! Moving to a fully pumped system has now been mentioned by you as well as 'Heating'Boy'. Do you think this is the way I should be going? (Currently Pumped CH + Gravity Water, both...

Nige F, Thanks for that. I think that if the solution is in the layout of the pipework, I had better try and find 'someone who knows' to have look at it. Thanks again for the suggestions. Jass.

Thanks for your reply Nige F. The current spell of warm weather means that the CH pump has not been on at all, and the bathroom (Gravity) radiator is as warm as toast from top to bottom. Hence I do not think that silting is a signifant cause of the problem. I am interested by your...

"Newboy", Thanks for the response. Yes, you are right about the 'lovely' warmth in the bathroom, but this only happens in the Summer months when the pumped radiator circuit is mostly swithed off. In Winter, when the hot water circuit *and* the pumped circuit are operating, the bathroom...

We have a small radiator in the bathroom which is on the gravity hot water system and only gets warm very slowly and sporadically. You can almost sense the hot water ebbing and flowing in the radiator - beginning to warm up, and then draining away. I have seen comments in other posts...

We have one radiator (situated in the bathroom) that I believe is on the gravity fed hot water circuit rather than on the pumped system with the other radiators. The problem is that this one radiator takes ages to heat up. It shows little or no sign of getting warm, sometimes for several hours...