water

I am running a cold water feed to my shed, about 10m from the house. The house already has a cold water tap on the outside, and I intend to plumb into it (keeping the tap for garden work) but having a permanent feed to the shed. I am digging a trench to the required depth (~750mm) but within...

Hello everyone, We will be installing a new kitchen and would like to simplify somehow the piping under the sink (see attached pic for what we currently have). The brass pipe in the pic controls the water in the house and also an outdoor tap, but it's very bulky and takes up most of the space...

Hi there, very new to the forum. Seen some very helpful information floating around on here, however I think I need more specific help if possible. Dropped some pictures below of exactly where the water seems to be coming from. The nut which tightens to bar part of the shower, this is the...

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We have some salt and clear tide marks. Could this be penetrating damp?

Hello. I'm concerned about my backdoor as we have had some heavy rain in the last day and I noticed a wet patch in the concrete that meets the corner of the door frame. Somehow water is making its way into the house through both edges of the door. I have always had concerns over the...

I am looking to replace our inside stop tap, but the outside isolator cover has a square headed inset, which frustratingly is smaller than a 3/8 socket adaptor... This is what is looks like: Does anyone know where to get the tool to unlock these? Cheers.

OK, not exactly a disaster but it's weird... I clean my wash basin and bath drains by periodically blasting mains pressure water (via a hose) down the plugholes. Very quick, no chemicals and it does a great job. Done it a good few times and if careful, doesn't spray water around the bathroom...

Hi Come someone please help. We recently moved into a old house with 2 X 80s shower room upstairs and a newish shower room downstairs, with a Thermostatic shower that's always been on the hot side and control valve not even turning a quarter of the way. This week we started combining the 2...

Hi, just looking for some advice before I get a plumber in to investigate this for us. we moved in to a detached house 3 years ago, house is about 20 years old with a gravity fed system. Boiler was replaced about 6 years ago. During recent kitchen refit, fitters suggested our water pressure was...

Hi, first post here. I'm in the process of swapping out a lead water main for MDPE and replacing Cast iron and clay drainage. I've hired a CAT and genny to try and locate the existing utilities, but I'm not sure about the results. With the genny attached, the services seem easy to detect, but...

Hi, I have my mains pipe coming into the side of my house. I am going to have the adjacent wall studded out and therefore want to hide the mains pipe behind it and put on a low profile stop tap. My question is that it is approx 10” further along the wall than needed. Is it ok to make a channel...

Hi, i have a keston boiler I have an issue where it gets far too hot, when i put heating on the radiators are scolding... i have a 1 year old so its no good, i have to turn boiler on and off at main switch as it is just too much. Is there anything i can do to stop it getting too hot? Tia

Hello , struggeling with hot water - I’ve cleared the plate to plate and all pipes and flushed all the crap out. But still the temperature climbs too high and the waters like warm ? help please

I've moved into a new flat and struggling to shut the water off at the stop cock - it has no handle and the shaft is smooth and cylindrical so I can't get any grip with an adjustable wrench. Any suggestions on how to work it? Weirdly the end of it is smooth so can't work out if there was a...

Hi, few weeks ago I noticed a tapping noise from the area of my kitchen where my boiler is. I've stripped all the boxing in from around the boiler and and there is no sign of water. The tapping is quite loud, I don't think I would hear water dripping from outside the boxing. Anyway the same...

My bath water is lukewarm, so I removed the panel and tried to adjust the preset temperature, but it won't budge when I try and turn it anticlockwise? It will only go clockwise to the cooler side? The valve is a Gummers Bristan MT503

I recently installed a hive dual thermostat to work alongside my Worcester Greenstar 34Cdi classic. The water side of things works perfectly. Boiler fires up, hey presto. The heating however does not fire the boiler. The heating only works if the water is on as well. Anyone got any ideas. Please...

Hi, I am putting down new flooring on our top floor apartment (2007) that we just bought. One room has a balcony. It seems dampness is coming in from the balcony - particularly after rain [maybe that's obvious :o) ]. Is there any way to fix or mitigate this before putting down vinyl? Any...

Hi there I recently bought my.house which is now showing a lot wrong with, I know I need to get the pointing done and the roof verge but have now discovered the drive drains into the side of the house, the bricks below dpc in one particular spot are saturated but not above, I am worried about...