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Hi, I'm fitting a wet room an I've just gone to take the bath out and there are 2x22mm pipes for the heating running in front of it. I need to drain the system and move the pipes. There's no f and e tank and it's not a sealed system. It's been in about 19 years and apparently it's a primatic...

I'm trying to change an immersion in a water heater. The problem being the box spanner I have is not deep enough, and I can get onto the bottom of the immersion however due to the sides of the water heater I can't get my hands onto it to turn it. Is there an immersion spanner that has a longer...

I've just changed a light in my front room. On the old fitting it had a long type terminal block with 3 reds, 2 blacks together, a single black and a yellow wire with all the earths connected together and a blue and red connected together in the ceiling. So I connected the 3 reds together, the 2...

Hi, I'm in the process of Plumbing in a new ktichen for a friend however now he has fitted all of his units it turns out I need to remove a old stopcock that is now redundant however still on his water main. I've looked at the pipe, originally I though it was a pieve of galvanised steel...

Hi, Does anyone know what the current scrap prices are? Me and my work colleague have been collecting it for the past 6 months and now we have so many bags of taps, copper, lead it has taken over his garage and one room of my house. I really want to take it down to the scrappy but am not sure...

I've got a problem with my Wickes halstead combi boiler. It was working fine yesterday. I'm in the process of doing my house up so am not staying there. I went back today and have had a new fuseboard installed for me. I turned on the hotwater and the boiler started up, however the hot water...

Hi, I regularly fit new bathrooms, and am regulary removing/replacing baths which are mainly cast iron, weigh a ton and 9 times out of 10 have to be smashed up to get outside. Up until now all the baths have been binned (minus taps, and any copper/lead attached which is removed and scrapped)...

Hi, i've moved a toilet from one house to another. While waiting for the tiler to finish the toilet has been sat disconnected in the new house. I fitted the toilet today however in the 2-3 weeks its not been connected the ball valve has stopped working. I've taken the valve apart, cleaned it etc...