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Hi folks, we'd like to change our kitchen taps that are mounted on a steel sink. Annoyingly our existing are 'traditional' looking but with a 20cm gap between tap hole centres. It seems 18cm is more of a standard and although traditional designs sometimes have a flexibility on distance, the...

That's great. I thought as much. Thanks for the tips I'm going to get an electrician. Would an electrician be happy to check and fix the circuit and leave me to mount and connect the fan do you think? Or would he want or have to do the whole thing? Thanks

Hi folks, Our old extractor, fitted by the guys who did our kitchen, broke due to water leak from above. I've now fixed the leak and want to replace the hood but I think it may have been wired wrongly in the first place. The wire coming out of the wall there was wired to the fan. The...

Hi there, I think it's fixed! The brass item: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Degree-Fem...GZW6425F96F&psc=1&refRID=EFCTDRCT8GZW6425F96F Actually fitted perfectly on to the thread. There was no swivel so I had to take the panel apart a bit to screw it on but then the barb was just right too. Not...

I've considered it :) Actually only spent £15 so far on 3 bits. But if I break it completely in my attempts to fix it (maybe with a hammer?) I'll have to.

I'm in London but don't drive so quite limited. I did go into a plumbase and the guy said I would never find one those at any outlet. Kinda said what you guys did at the start. I've got another thing coming from amazon tonight. I think I'm going to take the whole thing off the wall and...

Here : I don't get it :(

Here we go: I did try to seperate the parts with needle pliers a while back but couldn't get it to budge. Here you see the top quite long male thread. On the other pic you see the flexible tube connected to a barbed thing similar to what's on my platic component. Very strangely I just...

Just tried other nut and it has the same problem. Same thread I guess :(

Ah I see. I'll take a look at this tomorrow first thing. I can only find washing machine tubes with 3/4" nuts. Are there 1/2" around?

Yeah, wrong thread size, of course. That's going to be a pain. Surely the nut on the other end would be the same? Maybe not :) I will try that. I thought washing machine hose were 3/4". That'd be great I'll look one up. Thanks again. Feel I'm getting somewhere. Bit worried about the thread...

Would either of these work? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shurflo-244-3926-Elbow-Adapter/dp/B002IZJ7D6/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?dchild=1&keywords=female+barbed+swivel+elbow&qid=1594198642&sr=8-1-fkmr0 Or actually this looks promising...

Hi guys, I went to B&Q and got a couple of things I thought might work One was a short pipe with a 1/2" swivel nut at one end and a nut with an olive at the other, which I think is to join to copper pipe? Strangely, the swivel end seems to fit exactly at first but after half a turn it...

Ah great, barbed swivel elbow seems to be the name. At least i can search for it now. Pretty sure it's 1/2" but I'll take it out again tomorrow and measure it. Thanks guys.

So, Better Bathrooms where I bought it, went bust and the company that took over have no records of the shower. I can't track down the manufacturer. I have a very brief installation guide but that's it. Someone at Shower Doc is trying to find it but if that doesn't work is there anything else...

Yeah it looks like you can squeeze those plastic arms together and it'd all come apart but they didn't seem to budge. I wonder if it's a cheapo one way thing, built to be assembled but not disassembled

Thank oyu! I've give that a try. Wow. I was so pleased when I found the problem just thought it'd be a simple pipe to metal thread joining thing. I'm so surprised it's not a standard thing. Thanks again :)

Sorry how do you mean? The nut screws to a metal thread. That join doesn't seem to leak. I could be assuming too much here for someone who knows nothing about plumbing but it really looks like this component is faulty. water comes out quite freely between the nut bit and the rest of it. I...

Sorry, I meant the washer you can see is after the leak. But it's definitely leaking where the nut meets the rest of the plastic fitting. Inside the nut is all sealed except the hole going into the fitting bit. If this washer was worn I can only think it'd leak 'forwards' , where the nut...