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    Gate valve or stopcock handle missing

    Afternoon I will need to turn the hot water off whilst fitting a new cloakroom suite. I tried to locate an isolation valve from o the cold supply to the tank, and it looks like it's this which has no handle. Looking at the pic, can anyone advise what sort of handle is required? I'm guessing...
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    Missing/broken water shut off valve tap/switch

    Hi everyone, Recently we have been having problems with our washing machine and need to buy a new one. We need to turn off the water supply going to the washing machine but it seems like someone has broken the shut off valve tap/switch (see pictures). Would it be possible to just buy a new...
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    Water starts coming out of down stairs tap when turn on upstairs tap advice needed?

    I wonder if any one can help me. I live in a rented house. I went to run my children a bath tonight I turned on hot tap and heard a screeching sound coming from kitchen downstairs and the sound of water. I went down stairs to check and the hot tap in kitchen was screeching and water was coming...
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    Noisy Pipes....

    Hi all, Im sure this has been raised in the forum before but ive had a look and am currently a bit stuck. Once the hot water has been on and the cold water pipe in the attic is filling the storage tank again the pipe leading to it is making a very loud squealling noise. Ive been in the attic...
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    My indesit W123 keeps filling with wather when turned on

    I think whatever tells it there's enough water stopped working. The washing cycles seem to be working fine. I tried resetting the washing mashine. That didn't fix anything. Water doesn't overflow, I think the the draining cycle stops that from happening. If I switch the power off, the water...
  6. eveares

    Socket to close to Sink?

    Just wondering what the regulations were for how close a socket could be to a sink in the year 2000. The photo below is from a kitchen at a commercial office building that was likley built around the year 2000, the edge of the socket is only about 100mm-150mm away from the edge of the sink ...
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    Cold water tap has water exploding from it when turned on

    This has been going on intermittently for some time, but now is almost every time a cold water tap in the house is turned on. Water bursts out of the tap in stop start gushes, accompanied by quite loud gugg, gugg, noises that are not the banging pipes noises described by some members. It takes...
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    Penetrating damp opinions (with pictures)

    Hi, Last year I moved into a new property and had a full 'buildings survey' to detect any problems. However the one room the inspector/surveyor could not inspect was stacked floor to ceiling with boxes. The previous owner had stacked all their moving out boxes in this area which conveniently...
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    BOSCH TDS3525GB Sensixx B35L leaking over floor? Dangerous!

    We bought a BOSCH TDS3525GB Sensixx B35L Iron and it leaks everytime we try to use it? We fill the water (not over full) for steam, and as the Iron warms up it leaks water out of the base holes all over the stand/appliance and all over the floor? This obviously (as its for steam), is very hot...
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    Getting my head around Water Softeners

    Water softeners are one of the most confusing things to research on the web in my opinion. People who sell them drop straight into that snake oil selling mode even though they are valid appliances which do have genuine value. I have recently had one installed; a Monarch Midi. I have learned or...
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    Slight Water pressure drop upstairs only?

    Any ideas what this could be? Over past week, we have had a pressure drop from (mixer) Tap in Bathroom? Have checked with Water board, and nothing out of the ordinary and they asked me to check the water pressure coming into the house via downstairs Kitchen Cold tap. All seems normal... it...
  12. B

    Siemens Dishwasher E 15 Error?

    Does anyone have any experience of this? Had this last week and remove some of the parts at the bottom and the filter and it "seemed" to work again for a while.. Last night, it came on again with E:15 error and some of the water leaked out of the front? This is obviously a draining issue.. as...
  13. eveares

    Pool Heater - Genius or Dumb?

    Is this a Genius or Simply Dumb way of heating a paddling pool up? Pool Heater by eveares posted 7 Aug 2016 at 11:53 PM
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    MDPE or Copper through the wall ? Best option

    I'm currently trying to complete bringing water into my garage and cant seem to find an answer as to what is best practice. Bringing 20mm MDPE up the ouside of my garage wall, is it best to use a 90bend bringing the MDPE through the wall and then use a reducer to change over to 15mm copper pipe...
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    Vokera Excell 80sp no hot water

    I have a Vokera Excell 80sp combi boiler. For the last couple of days the hot water has been firing up initially when the tap's turned on and then running cold. I checked the pressure gauge and it was at zero so i topped up the boiler using the filler loop, which seemed to get the pressure back...
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    Vaillant ecotech plus 831 r1 no hot water

    I have a Vaillant 831 boiler which is not heating water. It is 4 years old and has had a diverter valve changed 2 years ago. It was working last night but this morning it has stopped heating the water. The central heating is working as it should. When a hot water tap is opened the flame symbol...
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    Rainwater not run to drain, pours into garden

    Hi All I live in a semi, and we have a patio at the back of the house, what I noticed is that the part of the roof sloping backwards has downpipes connected to the patio roof. I also have another downpipe which meets the downpipe of the patio on the surface of the garden, when I lifted up some...
  18. S

    Solid lumps in wall

    Hi, was not too sure where to post this, hoping someone can help me out. I recently noticed that a wall in one of my bedrooms now has a similiar look to water damage, a number of lumps in the wall, but these are hard. I had a worker in December redoing our bathroom, which is the room on the...
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    Leaking overflow pipe

    Hi all, New on here but looking for some advice. We have a leaking overflow pipe outside our flat. We have checked our toilet, water tank etc and they appear fine (we have a cold tank with a hot water tank on an economy 7 electric timer underneath in the airing cupboard).We were also away on...
  20. cammy2207

    Tap shuts off when hose connected

    Hi. When I connect my expanding hose to my bath tap. The tap shuts off like it's blocked or like your finger is blocking it. However there are no blockages, the valves are all open but the hose will not expand as the water cuts off at the tap. Please help...
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