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    Plumber NFA Bathroom Refurbishment & Kitchen design

    NFA Design & Build specialises in architectural plans for loft conversions, home extensions, internal modifications. We can provide party wall agreements/awards, Building regulations drawings, structural steel calculations etc at an affordable prices. Our team at NFA design & build equipped with...
  2. F

    Plumbing - Is this kitchen plumbing OK please?

    Hi, I'm part-way through having my kitchen refurbished and my fitter does the plumbing himself as part of the job. The kitchen has been stripped and the pipework is in and have just painted the new plasterwork etc ready for fitting next week. The new plumbing work he has done uses compression...
  3. S

    Brown lines on kitchen ceiling

    Hi I have just noticed brown lines on my kitchen ceiling. They are not wet or damp too touch this is the 1st time I've noticed them. I have checked other ceilings nothing. The shower is above the kitchen. Hoping it's not a leak. Now I had a plumber out before christmas doing some work. One...
  4. T

    Kitchen tap

    Hi All, I bought this new sink tap with a shower ~£40 (one lever) on Amazon, relatively good reviews. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BLHFTJYP?smid=A1HZTFTICA23YN&th=1 I installed it (ground floor) but what I have noticed straight away is that the flow is almost half of what the wash basin...
  5. M

    Help please how do i remove this kitchen tap?

    Help please how do i remove this kitchen tap?
  6. P

    Kitchen mixer tap dripping - How to replace the cartridge?

  7. Dan

    DIY Floating Kitchen

    Opinions on this? Apparently a DIY floating kitchen. I admire the effort but looks like a surround for a hot tub to me maybe I'm seeing it wrong.
  8. MrsFixit

    trying to fix a Old very Large Tap in a Commercial Kitchen

    I have a Very old commercial kitchen in my School, it dates originally from the 1950’s, it has had modernisation, but many of the Plumbing Fittings are original or contemporary with the period. I need to replace the Washer in a Hot Sink Tap, just getting it apart required an impact wrench due...
  9. S

    Hissing sound from under sink

    Heya, So there's a hissing sound coming from underneath my sink that feeds my washing machine and dishwasher. I initially thought it was a weeping connection or a pinhole in an old pipe, so I turned the water off. The hissing was still there but as soon as I drained what was left in my...
  10. R

    total blockage in kitchen sink

    what will cut through whatever is blocking my kitchen sink? I've put sulfuric acid, and then later i put a whole gallon of liquid plumber down it, got a snake to go down to the first bend subfloor, then tried suction. nothing, still not draining.
  11. T

    Water appearing in washing machine when run kitchen taps

    Hi there! When I run hot or cold kitchen tap, clean transparent water slowly appears in washing machine - this water smells - have to scoop it out! Not sure if issue is installation - washing machine is sited not far from sink (live in flat and kitchen small). Here is a picture of the piping...
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  12. J

    How do I fit pipes under kitchen sink?

    I took Apart pipes under 1 and 1/2 sink, and now I can't put it back together. Can anyone help please
  13. Dan

    See the Stunning Before and After of These 6 Local Kitchen and Bath Makeovers

    Working with expert designers, these six families transformed their homes into functional and beautiful spaces. Perhaps it’s still the pandemic effect, or a side effect of the tight housing market, but the propensity to invest in one’s own home – and honor its historic integrity, too – is...
  14. N

    Oversize kitchen sink top/drainer buying one.

    Hi guys....we have an old Astracast sink top....I think its a composite sink....has a big single bowl. My wife thinks it looks scruffy....looks ok to me.....sound but the bowl has seen a lot of work. So she wants a new one...Astracast it seems are no more. The problem is its size.....looked...
  15. C

    Is it necessary to earth bond a Kitchen Sink?

    I am in process of replacing an existing sink with a new stainless steel one. The existing tap is plumbed directly to copper which means that it is earthed. The new tap will use flexible tails and so will not be earth bonded. My initial search for information suggests that there is no legal...
  16. S

    Advice needed for a mixer Spray for kitchen ?

    Hello plumbers in my internet. So the Mrs want a spray mixer tap in the kitchen as we had two separate taps. I changed the tap for a temporary two hole mixer but the cold water pressure is high mains fed and the hot is low pressure immersion tank fed. I've been trying to find info on what I...
  17. F

    What constitutes a Commercial Appliance and thus a Commercial Kitchen?

    We run a community village hall and have a large kitchen provided for the use of hirers. This includes a Lincat SLR9 gas cooker which I believe is a 23.8Kw appliance with all six burners and oven on max. This was installed some 10 years ago and has passed all subsequent Gas Safety inspections as...
  18. Be kind

    Kitchen tap

    I had a plumber fit a new mono block kitchen tap. The water runs very slowly now. Also, not sure if this is to do with it, but my hot water doesn’t get as hot as it did with my old tap. Anyone help?
  19. B

    Kitchen Tap cartridge issue.

    I have attached an image of a kitchen tap which requires the housing around the cartridge to be removed. The housing is much more than hand-tight and I was wondering if plumbers have experienced this type of tap and how the housing is removed without damaging it. Thanks.
  20. A

    Ducting for kitchen extractor fan

    We moved into a house with a gas Aga (I think converted from oil). The extraction pipe is fitted against and runs through an external wall, then up the outside of the external wall. The ducting pipe circumference is about 32cm, so about 10cm diameter. There is no extractor fan in the kitchen. We...

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