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Afternoon all, The cold water tank in the loft (approximately year 2000, plastic) must be leaking. I can see a few inlets/outlets, none of which have any water around them. The water seems to be coming from underneath, as though the tank has a crack or puncture. No idea how after being in place...

Ay up all. There are 4 valves in my airing cupboard. Two 3/4" on pipes (cold) from/to the loft water tank. Neither turn more than 1/8 of a turn. Presume stuck? I presume these are mains into and out of the header tank? Then one off the base of the H/W cylinder (again, won't turn more than...

I've done this before and had iffish results - paint them quick and get the occasional run or paint them slower and get brush marks. I was wondering if it's worth taking them off the hinges and painting them flat to stop the runs happening? Or is it just a case of getting the technique right...

I've got a 50 inch tv with a wall bracket. So I drill a hole in the wall and i've got 15mm of skimmed plasterboard, about the same air gap, then a really soft blockwork inner wall. The wall bracket came with fixing that are too small to reach the blockwork, so I'm going to need some...

Garage conversion complete-ish and a shiny new tv to go on the wall. Lack of planning - no co-ax available. Only option appears to be splitting the cable in the loft, and running the extension outside, down the wall and back in again behind where the tv will go. Any installation tips...

I've got a nice even garage conversion floor, with two "dips", about 5mm over 1m at the skirting and probably petering out by 2 foot into the room back to nice and flat again. The rest of the floor is sound. I'm about to lay an 8mm Laminate over a 3mm underlay on this floor. Two...

Morning all, I'll be painting some new skirting board this afternoon, and I've got some Ronseal primer/knotting solution but I'm a bit dubious as to whether I should have bought a knotting solution and separate primer... ...any opinions?

Hi all. We've done a garage conversion. Concrete garage floor has had a waterproof membrane laid, a load of joists with insulation between, then 22mm chipboard floorboards on top. I fancy solid oak floor, but I'm picking up mixed messages and am confused! 1) I'm told that I can lay...

Afternoon all. I've got 6 halogen lights in my kitchen ceiling on a single switch. I'm banging in a floor to ceiling cupboard which will half cover one of the lights so obviously I'm taking it out. How do I safely leave the wiring? I've got a twin (black and red) cable going into a...

Hello all, the missus has bought an American fridge freezer, which need connecting to a water supply. Conveniently situated the other side of the kitchen wall to where the fridge needs to go is the mains inlet/meter to the house. I was thinking that I could tee off the incoming pipe (above...

...I can't find what I need in the previous posts. I'm planning to replace my existing double oven with two single ovens. I don't know if I'm going to need re-wiring to cope or what other work I'm going to need to have done. The incoming box in the garage has a 32amp fuse (RCD?) for the...

Morning all, two central heating issues... 1) Radiator in the spare bedroom has got an inch of warmth left at the bottom and I can't bleed it because the valve has been scalped - so the key just spins. I'd be much obliged if some one could tell me what I need to do in order to isolate this...

Hello all - bit of advice would be gratefully recieved... I need to bend a 3/4" mild steel pipe (18 swg) to about a 45 degree angle. I've got a plumbers pipe bending kit with a 3/4" former - will this do the job or am I likely to struggle to bend the steel or deform the aluminium former...

I'm putting in a shower pump. I've been advised that, although it is usual to fit a shower pump next to the hot water cylinder in the airing cupboad, the best bet in my house is to place it in the loft, next to where the h+c feeds drop down into the bathroom. I've bought a pump and I'm...

I've replaced my shower with a new shiny version. The shower head has been raised slightly and the shower head is bigger. As a result the flow isn't great and so I'm planning to put a pump in. Obvious place seems to be up the loft where the h and c feed pipes drop into the studded wall to feed...

Evening. Having completed a refit of my bathroom with loads of help from the plumbing section, my missus has decided that the shaving socket is in the way of where she wants to put a mirror. Bless her. Now the socket is on a studded wall, so I reckon I can move it myself, but before i start...

I'm (hopefully) coming to the final stages of replacing my bathroom. With a lot of help from various threads on here I've managed to replace my toilet and sink, and I've chopped the hot and cold shower feeds from the tank in the attic and bunged isolation valves on. Now I've got these two...