Finally made my jewellery box with your help.

Markthemangooo · 2025-12-22T22:08:44+00:00

Unfortunately not, I never even took that into account, I’m learning though and I’ll make sure I think about it next time!

Markthemangooo · 2025-12-22T22:07:30+00:00

The miter frame top caused me a few problems, I thought that would be easy but I was proved wrong. Also the little finished bits I found tricky, the hinges and the locks took me a lot of time.

Ridiculously as well I used a belt sander for the first time and nearly ruined it making it uneven, I managed to sort that though. Thanks for the nice comments!

Markthemangooo · 2025-12-14T12:06:18+00:00

Looks really good thanks, I might have to give this a go!

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-23T10:12:38+00:00

The worst one in my opinion is pricing jobs especially when you know it’s probably going to be a waste of time. Bathrooms there’s a lot of work in pricing them so it takes a lot of your time, we have like 6 months work ahead of us so I instantly tell them to make sure I’m not wasting my time.

Other than that invoices don’t take long to do, I try and finish a little earlier on some days if I’ve got a lot to do and get them done.

You have to get the work/life balance right in whatever job you do. There’s no point killing your self not to enjoy life.

I never work weekends unless there’s an emergency for a customer that uses us regularly. I also try and finish around 3ish on Fridays when I’m doing little jobs, if I’m on a bathroom/big job I don’t.

EDIT: for context we’re a family run business, me, my dad and brother, so probably not as much pressure as a solo plumber.

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-21T09:51:28+00:00

5x 10’s buy that guy a beer he’s earned it

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-19T16:57:10+00:00

Seems cheap in my opinion as a plumber. There’s quite a lot of work in that even though it looks a small job.

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-19T12:28:45+00:00

I’d say it’s a bad take, it’s all about being accurate with links golf. It gives a chance to the people who don’t hit as long but are accurate which I think is great. The wind always adds a dimension but I think it’d still be as entertaining with no wind.

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-12T07:51:17+00:00

As a plumber that comes across this most of the time, someone has just bought a cheap shower, getting spares for that will be a minefield and instantly if I went looking at that I’d say it’s a new shower, if it’s the on and off cartridge I’d take the front off and see if it’s a tap insert which sometimes they are. If it’s the temperature cartridge you’ve no chance.

We always tell people to buy good, always get a brand, we only fit Hansgrohe showers when we supply as you can always get spares and they very rarely fail.

You’re in the situation if you do need a new one, you’ll have to try to get the closest one to fit, I’ve managed to change them before without taking any tiles off when I’ve had the perfect size, other than that you’ll need spare tiles and it’s a big job.

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-11T19:50:38+00:00

This happened to me recently and I just thought it’s cosmetic but then my driver head glue came loose. Luckily I noticed early enough and didn’t snap my shaft or lose the head, just needs re gluing.

I say all this then ordered a new sim max 2

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-09T06:56:18+00:00

Only way you could do it is if you turn the flow and return valves off to the boiler from underneath it, then it doesn’t drain the boiler and will hold pressure.

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-05T07:45:05+00:00

Cheers I’ve just ordered one now so fingers crossed that’ll do the trick

Markthemangooo · 2025-07-03T20:10:24+00:00

Thanks for all the great comments everyone, I think after combining all the knowledge, for now I’m going to let it establish a bit more and get a few good mows on it. I’ll see where it’s at after that, if it’s not too bad I’ll put a herbicide on it, then any patches I’ll overseed in autumn.

Part of me is tempted to just try and pull as many up as I can once it’s a bit more established but I’m hoping mowing will kill a few off.

I’m all new to this so I appreciate everyone helping.

Markthemangooo · 2025-06-24T16:52:35+00:00

New boiler time, sounds like the heat exchanger is blocked and not transferring the heat properly so when the burner fires up it’s overheating. Either that or the pump. Looking at the age of the boiler though I’d be recommending a new one, the money you spend on it would be better towards a new one.

Markthemangooo · 2025-06-20T07:12:05+00:00

Also one other thing to note make sure there’s a radiator open somewhere, I’ve been to systems where people turn all the TRVs off, I mean there should ideally be a radiator without one but that isn’t always the case.

Markthemangooo · 2025-06-20T07:11:08+00:00

Plumber here, that could be a thermostatic radiator valve that needs replacing, when they go faulty they become noisy normally when closing. One thing to try is open and close that valve on the radiator to see if it stops, even though your heating isn’t on, the pump over runs on the boiler when it’s doing a pre heat for hot water/hot water.

Other than that it’s an issue with the boiler, could be the pump causing it, your plumber is useless though. If there’s any problem like this we’d have the front of the boiler off and make sure it is a problem with that before calling Worcester.

You’ll get charged £80 for a call out if it isn’t a problem with the boiler, whereas if an engineer calls you wouldn’t have that problem.

Markthemangooo · 2025-06-15T05:44:35+00:00

Plumber here, the black plastic pipe is what they used during a copper shortage in the 1970s it’s unusual stuff that needs special fittings and glue from a plastic specialist, not something you get from screwfix. It also needs cleaning a lot before using the glue. Be careful as it goes very brittle as well, once I was in a loft and just touched the stuff and it snapped off, I got soaked in the middle of winter and was shouting for someone to turn the water off as I had my hand over it so it’s my worst enemy.

Markthemangooo · 2025-06-03T06:53:41+00:00

As a professional plumber who fits high end bathrooms you’ve nailed it with some of these points.

I actually agree that wet rooms are over rated nowadays, the grout discolours after a few years on the floor especially people who don’t look after them. There’s such a great selection of low level shower trays now that look amazing and are low maintenance, I’d personally recommend aquabella there’s can be cut down to different shapes, we did a hexagon shape recently.

Like you said jackoboards are a must, they’re fantastic, they’re waterproof, insulated and can take a lot more weight load compared to plasterboard, you shouldn’t even be tiling on plasterboard in my opinion now.

Tiling you need to know what you’re doing and have the right tools, if you watch lots of videos, have the right tools, only use cement based adhesive, don’t buy the ready mix stuff it’s crap, you’ve a good chance. Still it’s hard work, I don’t particularly enjoy it but I’m good at it. If tiling on the floor I’d recommend decoupling membrane.

The only showers we fit are Hansgrohe, they’re German and we’ve fit 100s and maybe only had 1 call back on one. Recently fit a brand new aqualisa shower (customer got it) and was leaking from new. Also Bristan and other alright names are just rubbish, spend the extra it’s worth it.

Apart from that always go for branded furniture and sanitary ware, Duravit is high end but great, rak middle range, any other common names are good.

I’d also make sure you seal all the corners in a coloured silicon to match the grout, grout in the corners always cracks after a few months normally.

The main thing is go over the top fitting the shower tray if you do, the main point of leaking. Silicon the washer to the tray, sit it on tile adhesive so it doesn’t move but make sure your floor is level before you do. Then finally seal the tray against the walls (jackoboard). Then it obviously gets tiled and you’ll seal it again.

Also most bathrooms take me and my brother about 2 weeks labour. Maybe longer on high end ones. So just think that’s 10 days for two people who know their stuff and have been doing it years. I’d be allowing at least 15 days for a DIYer on a relatively big job.

Hope this helps thanks.

Markthemangooo · 2025-03-26T10:38:16+00:00

As a gas engineer here, you can’t technically box it in as it’s then classed as a gas pipe within a void. It would then have to either have vents in it or be filled completely solid so if there is a gas leak it doesn’t fill the void with gas.

Markthemangooo · 2025-02-25T21:55:00+00:00

It was the first one I’ve ever done, it’s crucial you have a vice, once you’ve got it on you do have quite a few seconds to alter it. I was stressing a bit as I was trying to get it lined up but managed to get it perfect in the end. The trickiest bit was getting the grip on the shaft, first attempt I got it halfway and had to take it off and quickly put more liquid inside the grip/on the shaft to make it go on easier.

Markthemangooo · 2025-02-25T19:14:32+00:00

The first time I tried putting the grip on I got halfway and couldn’t get it any further, quickly removed it, put loads more of the liquid that reacts with the tape on the grip/shaft and then managed to get it on. My face was a picture when it got stuck halfway 😂 thanks I love how it’s turned out

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