saxavordian
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The smell of diesel masking my wife's farts.
The smell of diesel masking my wife's farts.
Yep
.Its around 33 total they say 27ish water the rest out the front. Water does the underfloor and hot water.
It has a lot to heat
Sometimes a 2 bed bungalow is attractive.
J
Good for you, glad you are happy!
WhiskyLassie
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Been working in the garden in all morning all clean again and under a blanket.
Been using my old Wolf Sapphire drill. Mains 2 speed and nowt else, even with a chuck key.
Boy is it powerful!
Bought by my Ma (!) back in about 1963/4. I seem to remember that they advertised them by putting one in a drill stand (can you still get those?) and drilling all sorts of stuff, the slogan was "Nothing will make it stall" or words to that effect.
Boy is it powerful!
Bought by my Ma (!) back in about 1963/4. I seem to remember that they advertised them by putting one in a drill stand (can you still get those?) and drilling all sorts of stuff, the slogan was "Nothing will make it stall" or words to that effect.
Rather flipped off at the mo.
Working on the utility plumbing, turned the rising main stopcock off, under kitchen sink, it deffo is the rising main as it comes from below the slab the house is built on in thick, black, plassy stuff, and the two gate valves in the airing cupboard.
Water has stopped flowing everywhere,
EXCEPT the outside tap and the kitchen sink cold feed. (Pressure isn't as high as you'd expect for mains. )
There is an isolating stopcock in the utility which would isolate feed to the utility tap, the outside tap and the redundant one to a washing machine or dishwasher.
But I am sure that in the past turning off the mains stopcock isolated the kitchen sink.
It seems as if it is being fed from the header tank in the roof but in that case why has it stopped in all the other cold taps? (And the hot ones) I've left it running ages in case it is just water in all the pipes.
Driving me round the bend.
Working on the utility plumbing, turned the rising main stopcock off, under kitchen sink, it deffo is the rising main as it comes from below the slab the house is built on in thick, black, plassy stuff, and the two gate valves in the airing cupboard.
Water has stopped flowing everywhere,
EXCEPT the outside tap and the kitchen sink cold feed. (Pressure isn't as high as you'd expect for mains. )
There is an isolating stopcock in the utility which would isolate feed to the utility tap, the outside tap and the redundant one to a washing machine or dishwasher.
But I am sure that in the past turning off the mains stopcock isolated the kitchen sink.
It seems as if it is being fed from the header tank in the roof but in that case why has it stopped in all the other cold taps? (And the hot ones) I've left it running ages in case it is just water in all the pipes.
Driving me round the bend.
Solved it.
Stupid stopcock on the rising main wasn't closing properly, even with a spanner on it.
So need a new one.
Time to call in a plumber.
I hain't doing it, to W's relief!
Stupid stopcock on the rising main wasn't closing properly, even with a spanner on it.
So need a new one.
Time to call in a plumber.
I hain't doing it, to W's relief!
My indoor cock-stopper was put in in 1936 and is very difficult to turn (in either direction).Solved it.
Stupid stopcock on the rising main wasn't closing properly, even with a spanner on it.
So need a new one.
Time to call in a plumber.
I hain't doing it, to W's relief!
I am very much afraid it will just snap if I put a spanner on it. So, when in dire need I am more likely to turn it off at the outside stopcock that the water Co. kindly put in when they messed up my supply after doing work in the street.
We too possibly have a new one in the street, as not long ago they came along, dug a noo 'ole and put replacement meters in. But I haven't looked since I complained that our meter was under water and we had a leak we were being billed for.My indoor cock-stopper was put in in 1936 and is very difficult to turn (in either direction).
I am very much afraid it will just snap if I put a spanner on it. So, when in dire need I am more likely to turn it off at the outside stopcock that the water Co. kindly put in when they messed up my supply after doing work in the street.
What bothers me, quite apart from hindering the work I am doing, is that we turn it off every time we leave the house for a long period. For obvious reasons. Guess last time I did this I can't have tested it properly, if at all.
To get to the one in the street, (the pavement technically) involves opening a green plastic-like plate, which without the proper tools would not be easy. It involves crossing two screwdrivers as well as your fingers!!
Guess I'll have to see if the isolator in the utility is working, humph. Never touched it in all the time I have been in this house, and that is since 1994.
Just dawned on me that we did have a plumber "out" to it (kitchen one) not long before I retired as he came on a Friday fiddled about with it, basically loosened off then retightened the top nut so it stopped leaking and only charged me £20, then our Polish cleaning lady gave him a mouthful for charging that much! So embarrassing! And unexpected as normally she was lovely. 
WhiskyLassie
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I had a 3 hour nap 
Take a look at this website. very handy to install one of their products just upstream of the original stop cock, turns the supply off at the flick of a switch (no electricity involved). Can be got from scroofix and others.Just dawned on me that we did have a plumber "out" to it (kitchen one) not long before I retired as he came on a Friday fiddled about with it, basically loosened off then retightened the top nut so it stopped leaking and only charged me £20, then our Polish cleaning lady gave him a mouthful for charging that much! So embarrassing! And unexpected as normally she was lovely.
Surestop | Protecting property from the risk of water damage
WhiskyLassie
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@Def90man is this really you?
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
Also that boy has had a hard life if he looks like that at 38.
Farmworker exposed as one of Scotland’s biggest love rats
Alan Dobson, 38, spun of web of twisted lies while love-bombing a string of partners many of whom he dated at the same time after meeting on online dating sites.
Also that boy has had a hard life if he looks like that at 38.
