Since defrosting my freezer part of my fridge (which was working overtime because the door won’t shut properly) this problem has not materialised again. I’m going to thank posters for their assistance and deem the issue closed.
Moving on to my next projects:
I have a carpet on the landing that’s wet. It’s outside the bathroom and next to the shower. I presume there has been a leak of some sort. There appears to be a tiny crack between the rubber bit at the top of the shower tray and the leftmost bottom tile. I believe this could be the culprit but there’s no dampness on the landing side of the wall.
What’s my best approach here? I can lift the carpet and see if the floorboards are wet. I’m thinking lift the carpet, apply some sealant to the shower tray in the rogue spot, leave the carpet up for a couple of weeks to give everything a chance to dry. Tack it back down (or more realistically just place it back down and live with it being a bit loose) and get on with my life. Any problems with that?
My hot water cistern is in the garage which is conveniently located at ground level. My main bathroom is upstairs. I have a pump in the garage. The pump is activated whenever the shower comes on or the tap in the bathroom or whatever (or any downstairs tap or toilet other than the mains) and the pressure is excellent.
However when I flush the upstairs toilet the cistern doesn’t start to refill because the pump doesn’t come on and I presume the pressure isn’t good enough without the pump. This has not always been a problem. Previously the pump used to come on and the whole fucking pipe would rattle like fuck because the pressure was too much I presume. At least I think it was rattling, there’d be a humming and a banging noise while the toilet cistern was refilling.
It has just now occurred to me that problems 1 and 2 could be related in that the pipe could have been damaged and that’s why the toilet doesn’t refill anymore and that’s why there’s a damp landing. But that’s not likely I hope because when the shower is on for example the toilet refills pretty quickly, it just doesn’t have the pump coming on when it doesn’t have anything else to trigger it.
Any advice here other than calling a plumber? The toilet definitely used to trigger the pump I think so can’t figure out why not anymore. I did mess about with it to try and stop the banging by “opening a valve” (I’ve no idea if that’s what I did but it’s what I tried to do) to allow a better flow into the toilet which I thought would solve the noise problem. I wasn’t expecting the toilet to not refill at all.
A table cloth wouldn’t be suitable in this instance but thanks for the suggestion Chewy.
I appreciate you making the effort to help me find a solution.
Again a good suggestion, but again not really feasible in this situation as the scratch stretches approximately 12" (it’s slightly smaller than my cock) along the table.