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    Slow draining sink

    In my limited experience, it will be the most horizontal pipe that is blocked. Sounds like the one under the floor. I had the same problem a few years ago, and foolishly called an emergency plumber, who charged £80 for 10 mins of cutting through the pipe, wet-hoovering out all the crud, and...
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    Mixer Tap and Banging Noises

    Nobody to blame but me, unfortunately. The basin/taps are nothing special, and only looked cheap in the show room, rather than nice as such. Just a million times nicer than the 1960's style suite in our 1950's house! My wife isn't going to be impressed - i had told her that there was just...
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    Mixer Tap and Banging Noises

    Hot water is tank fed, and as we're talking about a bathroom tap, we're upstairs, so not much pressure head. The annoying part is that it was fine before we changed the bathroom! Surely if it is down to small pipes entering the mixer i wouldn't be the first person to have this problem, and...
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    Mixer Tap and Banging Noises

    I forgot to mention... With both taps full on, if you turn the hot off slowly, at a certain point you get quiet banging/rattling of system, and at another a single louder bang as the hot tap closes of the supply to the tap. For a new installation this is really annoying
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    Mixer Tap and Banging Noises

    We've just had a new bathroom suite fitted. As part of this we now have a basin mixer tap and a new single hole basin where previously we had separate hot and cold taps. There are two problems with the tap: 1) Flow when the hot only is turned on full is barely a dribble. Previous hot...
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