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Heated towel rails make a big difference to both your bathroom and electric bill

Heated towel rails make a big difference to both your bathroom and electric bill

Forgetting about your worries while soaking in a bathtub is something many people love to do, especially on a cold winter’s day. It’s the getting out part that can be tough though. Making the adjustment from hot bath to cold air can be very uncomfortable. Something else many people love to do is to feel [...]

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How To Install An Undermount Sink

A. Using outline of the sink bowl as a template, cut out a hole in the counter in the position that you want install the sink. B. Make evenly placed holes in the underside of the counter for the screw plugs. C. Apply a generous line of silicone sealer (available from all hardware stores) around [...]

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How To Use The Fixing Clips For Installing Our Sinks

How To Use The Fixing Clips For Installing Our Sinks

Here are diagrams showing how to use the fixing clips that we provide with our various sinks.

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Choosing the right taps for your kitchen or bathroom

Choosing the right taps for your kitchen or bathroom

Taps not only come in a wide range of materials these days, but have many different styles as well. This makes it easier for homeowners to find taps that will suit their home’s décor. Choosing the right taps for your kitchen or bathroom can complete a beautiful interior design. Traditionally, people have used separate hot [...]

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Maintain A Good Swivel Action On Kitchen and Bathroom Taps

Maintain A Good Swivel Action On Kitchen and Bathroom Taps

Most kitchen taps and some bathroom taps feature convenient swivel spouts. These taps usually have rubber orings and a nylon bush in the spout for water seal and swivel action. To maintain good spout swivel action try the following: – Turn off the water supply to the tap – remove the spout (normally held in [...]

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Water Pressure Explained

When we turn on the kitchen tap or run a bath we may not be thinking how the water is coming out, unless it is dripping or not coming out at all! But, water pressure is something that we should all be familiar with. Most households receive water from a municipal water system where the [...]

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How To Install A Pull Out Kitchen Tap

Here are our instructions on how to install our pull out kitchen mixer tap item reference 56055. These instructions are also adequate for many other kitchen and basin pull out mixer taps. This item has a 1.5 meter weighted pull out hose that provides 40cm to 50cm of pull out reach. Click here to Download [...]

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What do you use to remove problem stains on a composite quartz sink

Bar Keepers Friend, available from DIY/Hardware stores is what the manufacturer of a very popular brand of composite quartz sinks normally uses to remove stains etc from Composite sinks

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How To Remove Ceramic Cartridges In Pillar Taps

How To Remove Ceramic Cartridges In Pillar Taps

1- unscrew the ‘H/C’ disc on top of the tap. This will expose a screw (some discs might pop off) 2- remove the screw 3- lift off the tap lever head. This exposes the brass nut on top of the ceramic cartridge 4- remove the nut which is part of the cartridge and so the [...]

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How To Clean Ceramic Disc Cartridges In Taps

How To Clean Ceramic Disc Cartridges In Taps

What and how: Ceramic disc cartridges are made with two ceramic discs each with two holes (for mixers) or 1 hole (for pillar or 2 handle taps) in it. One disc moves with the tap handle and the other disc remains in position. When these holes are aligned, the water is allowed to flow. In [...]

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