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Can anyone tell me if there are any regulations around the boxing-in of the soil stack? It's located in the kitchen of my middle-floor flat, where I'm planning to do some work. After taking a peak behind the current wooden casing surrounding the soil pipe I'm thinking about reducing the size...

Has anyone used Unibond 'no more cracks'? I've used it on my ceiling but it sets rock hard and now that I'm trying to sand it down, it's a total nightmare. It takes ages and it's killing me! You just sand and sand and sand and it don't get anywhere. To be fair, on the tub it does say to...

Hello helpful people, can you suggest a way to patch up a leaking central heating pipe joint? I reattached a radiator to my system but in doing so must have stressed the joint as it's now leaking ever so slightly. The problem is that the leak is occurring on the main pipe-work, so I can't...

I'm trying to fix the handle mechanism on an internal door. The door is an oldish, cheapo one, not made of solid wood and so, over the course of time has started to crumble at the handle area. The door handles can't be screwed tightly into the wood because there is nothing much left for the...

I contacted Triton with the above message and they didn't seem too interested. They just said that the unit should be flush, but that a bit of water down the back of the unit won't penetrate the sealed main part of it. Although that is the case, any water that gets down the back or into the...

Hi, My electric shower, a Triton T80, just stopped working the other day. The on-light doesn't illuminate anymore. I checked the trip switch and it's fine, the water flow comes off the same pipe as the taps, I pretty sure and they're working fine. Do these things just burn out sometimes...

I've noticed that one of the overflow pipes that comes out of my first floor flat is constantly dripping. I first noticed it when my shower and sink got blocked-up recently and I assumed it was because of that. I unblocked the shower and sink using a plunger (and brute force) and the water...