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hello guys hope you can help. The PRV of the above boiler is leaking. When the heating is on the pressure gauge shows below 3 bars and after 4-5 hours the pressure drops completely and the boiler does not fire up. Does the valve have a compression fitting on both sides? Does anyone know it’s...

hi all. i have a kitchen ceramic tap valve ( Reginox) and a sink ceramic tap valve ( Twyford) that need both changing as they both leak. I have been on Lunns web site and i should take the valves out and compare them with their valves' pics in order to find the right ones. I wondered if any of...

Hi guys. I have three bathroom down lights in the bathroom ceiling. Overtime the whole unit does not adhere to the ceiling anymore, as i have to pull down the whole unit every time i have to change the halogen lamp, leaving a 20mm gap between the rim of the unit and the ceiling as the hole in...

Hello guys. i can do plumbing but not very good with electricity. In my flat there is a extractor fan Ostberg, article number: 7540001 type LPK 100A in the ceiling. All of sudden it is stopped working. On the instruction and maintenance paper it says to check first the impeller is not blocked or...

Hi guys. I have just moved in a new flat where there is no gas. The hot water is heated up by Pulsecoil 2000. Initially, there was no hot water coming out of the taps.Then i removed the screw off the face of the pump and gave a few twists to the screw inside the pump with a screwdriver, selected...

Hi guys.Just in front of my front door there is a rectangular shaped cement slab going from my front door to the front gate. i would like to tile over it by using patio slabs. The existent cement slab is dirty. 1) Shall i clean it before tiling over it? If yes, what can i use to clean it? 2)...

Hi guys. i want to paint in white the outside of my property which was covered with pebble dash about 20 years ago. i have had a few people in to have a look at it and some say that before painting it we need to give a coat of stabilizer to make the stones stick together followed by two to...

Hi guys. A friend of mine has bought a flat and wants to buy a Worcester Greenstar 25 si combi boiler ( code: 7716130139)for his flat that was installed at another friend"s flat. He wants to buy it, i will be running the pipework and will call a Gas Safe engineer to install the boiler. The best...

Hi guys. I have bought a pair of straight radiator valves for my new towel rail. One end of the valve has a small hole and the other end is completely open. What end of the valve do the radiator tail and copper pipe go in? Thanks for your time.

Hi guy. I am in the process to install a new close coupled cistern. The cistern comes with two rubber washers, a plastic washer, a metal plate and a rubber doaughnut. A rubber washer goes inside the cistern between the syphon and the bottom of the cistern. Then on outside of the cistern what...

Hi guys I am renovating my bathroom. The waste outlet kit for my bath tub comes with one rubber seal for the overflow. Does the seal go on the inside or the outside of the bath tub? Thanks for your time.

Hi guys. Since i have never tiled before, i will just mixing enough adhesive to cover 1 square meter at a time which leads to the following questions: 1) Certainly, mixing just that little amount with a paddle and electric drill is a bit impractical....i have experienced it yesterday, when a...

Hi again guys.I am doing mi bathroom and after removing the old tiles, i checked the two walls around the bathtub and at certain spots there are dips of about 1 inch. I want to try to make that surface as straight as possible before tiling and therefore my question is: 1) is it ok to use a...

Hi guys. I am doing up my bathroom and got rid of old tiles and wall paper. In doing so, not only the finishing plaster was not sound and therefore i had to remove nearly most of it but also i realized that a section of bonding plaster is not properly bond to the exterior brick wall. It is not...

Hi guys. I am doing up my bathroom and got rid of old tiles and wall paper. In doing so, not only the finishing plaster was not sound and therefore i had to remove nearly most of it but also i realized that a section of bonding plaster is not properly bond to the exterior brick wall. It is not...

Hi guys. I will tile my bathroom next week and i do not like using trims for external corners. I have a wet saw that can be tipped 45 degrees and i would like to cut the tiles for external corner 45 degrees. Once the tiles join up, there will be very sharp external edges and therefore i would...

Hi guys. I will tile my bathroom next week and i do not like using trims for external corners. I have a wet saw that can be tipped 45 degrees and i would like to cut the tiles for external corner 45 degrees. Once the tiles join up, there will be very sharp external edges and therefore i would...

Hi guys. A friend is renovating his kitchen and the blue pipe entering the property straight into the kitchen gets in the way. The blue pipe at the mo is right under the sink and 200mm off the floor, then a compression stop cock is connected right onto the blue pipe and then the distribution...

Hi guys. I have read the post regarding how to lay out tiles in this forum and found it very informative however i have bumped into a snag. I have to re-tile my bathroom and there is a perpendicular wall that is only 260mm wide ( it acts as the opening to access the toilet). I know that i should...

Hi guys. The property in question is a first floor maisonette.The existing bathroom floor tiles have been laid on what seems to be 25mm plywood on suspended floor and this friend of mine wants to do up her bathroom and change the floor tiles. 1) If i lay new floor tiles on existing tiles, would...