Can you smell gas? Feeling ill? Headaches... nausea... dizziness?
Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas boilers, cookers and fires can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.
In a gas emergency act quickly and take the foll...
Be Gas Safe at home. Understand the risks of dangerous gas work and only use a Gas Safe registered engineer
Gas Safe Register is the official list of gas engineers who are registered to work safely and legally on gas appliances. By law, all gas engi...
Gas appliances that are left unchecked could be dangerous and leaking carbon monoxide
All of your gas appliances, including your gas boiler, gas cooker and gas fire should be safety checked once a year and serviced regularly according to manufacture...
Carbon monoxide kills if left undetected
For the safety of you and your family, it is advisable to fit a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm in your home. Just like a smoke alarm which alerts you to the presence of smoke, a carbon monoxide detector will aler...
Once the pipes have been cut square, make sure all components are clean.. Most people use a piece of steel wool to do this.
Assembling the joint
Place the first nut over one of the sections of pipe.
Next, place the olive over the pipe and push it ...
The cold water tank in the attic which is used to store cold water is actually referred to as a cold water storage cistern. Water is fed from the incoming mains supply to the storage cistern to provide readily available water to various outlets in th...
Waste pipe blockages
The water from the waste outlet in sinks and baths etc should drain reasonably quickly and freely. If the flow becomes slow, it indicates a blockage beginning to build somewhere in the pipework.
Since these waste pipes have to ...
Clearing blockage via the manhole
The indicators of a blocked drain are poor flow, seepage of waste from around the manhole, or smells coming from it.
To clear a blockage here, you will need a set of drain rods (available from hire shops).
If ther...
With all drain work it is sensible to wear rubber gloves for hygiene purposes. You should disinfect your hand and all equipment after completing the work.
WC
If the water from a WC fails to drain away easily or, worse still, overflows completely, t...
Rather than using a connector every time the pipe needs to turn, try bending the pipe to suit the angle required.
Again, this is a skill which is quickly mastered with a little practice.
The simplest equipment for this job is a bending spring. Prof...
