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thanks for the speedy reply dextrous. I've got a water softener that feed most taps and one unsoftened tap that's teed of before the softener - so I'd keep that one from the mains. Yes, hot water is from a cylinder all of the mixers have a reasonable flow of hot so I think they will be ok...

apologies if this has been asked before but I haven't been able to find an answer using the search .. My house has all the cold taps supplied direct from the mains. No problem until you put mixer taps on, which I've now done, and then you can't really get a sensible controlled temperature out...

can anybody tell me if the board in the attached picture is likely to contain asbestos? It's part of the partition/tiling substrate in a bathroom I'm doing up in a house made in 1973. It looks like a cement skim over plaster board. The base board looks like plaster board and the "cement" is...

you could try a pressure equalising valve (basically constantly matches the pressure of hot and cold) - Plumbworld sell them http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/pressure-equalising-valve-344-230. I'm in the process of trying to do exactly the same thing with my bath mixer. The valve seems to work...

I'd thought about an equalising valve for my shower mixer but I've also changed three sets of standard hot and cold taps for single mixer type taps and am now a bit concerned about the imbalance between hot and cold pressure causing cold water to be pushed back up the hot pipes when the mixer's...

hi - couldn't you just reduce the cold pressure to balance your pressures out or is your hot water pressure too low generally? Just wondering because I have a similar problem, mains fed cold upstairs and a tank fed hot - looking at pressure reducer valve possibility

Hi - I'd appreciate a bit of advice on what to do with tanking my shower. I've got the shower supply pipes chased into one of the walls of the cubicle (breezeblock + plaster) and hadn't planned to plaster over them. What do you think I should do about tanking over them? Cover the pipes with...

using flexis to join supply pipes to the shower pipes as the previous install had a couple of compression fittings behind the shower pod (which I've binned) and this means the pipe with shower chromed nuts on is not long enough now. I guess the best answer is to fit new soldered copper or...

I'm just about to replace our ancient, all-in-one, fibre glass shower pod with a quadrant shower tray + glass enclosure and have been thinking about how to best hide the supply pipes to the surface mounted mixer valve. Previous shower was mounted in the fibre glass pod with pipes running up...