Smart Pan for bath install?
Bathroom Fitting
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Bought Affine Fontaine against the wall free standing bath. Install sheet has a Smart Pan listed. It’s a clever piece of kit but nobody in uk has one Searches online only bring up loos! Strangely Reece in Australia plumbing supplies pops up and they have one Does anyone know where …
Removal of Salt efflorescence on skim
Plastering & Rendering
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I have just had my Bedroom skimmed by a professional plasterer and the outside wall is full of salt efflorescence after two weeks. I have asked the plasterer about coming to look at it and he told me to go and buy plaster sealer and apply it. The paint shop …
Bypass radiator always hot/ Boiler pump constantly on
Heating & Gas
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Boiler: Potterton Promax 30 SL S plan/ 1HW/1CH zone valve Our bypass radiator by the HW tank is constantly permanently hot regardless of the radiator valve position. If I turn the valves off, it causes the boiler to go into overheat lockout. I've checked and touched the boiler pump and …
Shower rollers
Bathroom Fitting
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Bottom rollers are discontinued can I use anything else to secure the doors .Spring rollers no hole in door to attach
Header tank venting?
Plumbing
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600 views
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Should there be hot water venting into the small header tank?
Combi boiler pressure drops
Plumbing
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My combi boiler pressure drops to 0 about 3/4 times a week , when I top it up the radiators heat straight away perfectly fine , my first thoughts were there must be a leak in the pipework but wouldn't the radiators be empty and need aired again etc any …
Foam filler in bay where floor and wall join
Bricklaying & Repointing
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Just moved in and found that foam filler has been squirted in the bay window where the floor meets wall. Why would this have been done? Can I just cut it back to put skirting boards down? It’s quite drafty as it needs a new window. - could this have …
How to build a long floating shelf and avoid bending?
Carpentry & Joinery
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I would like to build a long floating shelf (dimensions 4.5 meters long 36 cm deep and 5 cm thick) they would be made out of MDF and fitted around timber battens in the same way as alcove shelving). They would be built between two brick walls and against a …
Shower tray 600mm x 1600. Do they exist
Plumbing
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I am looking for the above. Narrow area.
Washing machine pipe blocked every month
Plumbing
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Every month the washing machine will start not draining so we have to unblock the pipe. Every month yellow greasy clumps come out and we do not know what it is. I don’t use powder I use gel and have tried different ones. So I don’t think it’s the washing …