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In older Cornish houses the stopcock is often nowhere near the kitchen sink. Where it hides, how to use the outside valve instead, and why to label it today.
A stopcock that drips or weeps when it is turned off is usually a worn gland, not a crisis. How to tell the difference, the quarter-turn trick, and your backup valve.
Leak sealer can quiet a pinhole for weeks or months, but the pipe underneath is unchanged. Why the pressure drop returns and the safer route to a lasting fix.
Water in the airing cupboard can be a tired gasket, a weeping fitting, a safety valve doing its job or a cylinder at the end of its life. Here is how to tell.
A dripping overflow, a weeping seam and a stain on the bedroom ceiling all point to the loft tank, and each one calls for a different response.
Where the cold sits on a radiator points to the cause, and when bleeding stops working while the boiler gauge keeps dropping, the heating circuit is probably losing water somewhere.
One warm spot on the floor, a boiler that keeps needing a top up and no puddle anywhere usually add up to a heating pipe leaking under the floor.
When the heating keeps losing water and nothing is wet, the system is the suspect rather than the boiler. Where the water goes and how it is found.
Rising damp and a hidden leak look alike in an old Cornish wall. The clues that separate them, and why a damp-proofing quote should wait until a leak is ruled out.
A house survey has flagged high damp meter readings. Here is what the meter measures, why old Cornish walls often read high without a leak, and how to prove it.
Laminate that lifts at the joints, swells along the edges or feels spongy is usually sitting on trapped water. Here is where it comes from and what to lift first.
A wet patch on a solid floor is usually a buried pipe, a missing membrane, groundwater or condensation. Simple tests tell them apart before anyone breaks the slab.
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