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Not something I've seen as such, but two of us had to pop into some old boys house to retrieve his glass eye from the basin trap. We sat in the van for 5 minutes trying to prepare ourselves for a one eyed fella answering the door, luckily he had an eye patch on. We got it out for him and he...

If you can, try and arrange with a company to work Saturdays for very little or nothing and convince them you are capable and hope for full time employment. My day release college course ran alongside an Adults class, I'm pretty sure they all had to pay their own fees.

Which pipe are you reffering to, the one coming from the bottom of the cylinder should be the Cold Feed to the cylinder, not an outlet. Its normal for this to be warm, but ussually loses temperature the higher it rises. The reduction is size shouldn't be a huge problem, it would just restrict...

I'd drain down and dismantle the joint and try to get as much water out as possible. Without seeing the pipework, its hard to say how much of a job this would be. But I've seen people try to repair joints by just re-fluxing around the joint and soldering, if there any water near by, it isn't...

What do you mean by Floor Board type radiator? The banging noise could be unclipped pipework somewhere banging against the floorboards whilst water is flowing through it.

I always wipe clean both fitting and pipe. Apply flux to both pipe and fitting. If appearance is crucial, I'll wipe excess flux off with tissue paper, heat gently and apply solder to the back of the joint that can not be seen, the solder will then run neatly all the way around the fitting. I do...