The glass canopy takes shape

This little job has turned into quite a large project.
With a bit of luck the build should be finished this week.
It started out as the customer asking a casual question about possibilities.
It's been a very interesting couple of weeks.
From being swamped in mud to being frozen to the marrow, it's what makes being a handyman fun.
If you want to see more pictures visit my photo blog

The British toilet cistern.

I had an interesting comment on my Burlington Bell Cistern postings from "Mick" about his experiences of a toilet cistern. He sent this link History of the British Toilet. If you want to "flush" out some interesting facts about cisterns this is a very interesting website.

The Porch is taking shape...

Now that we have a dry spell I've done a bit more on the porch this week. If you'd like to have a look at some of the photos go to my new photo blog

Cliff joins the team

The workload is increasing at "Eastbourne Handyman Jim'll Fix It" and so we have been joined by Cliff Surridge.
This is how Cliff introduces himself. "
Hi guys and gals, I'm new to the area having recently moved to Polegate from Essex. I've been in the building industry for most of my working life beginning with carpentry, moving into general building doing anything from tiling, painting, basic plumbing, plaster boarding, fitting kitchens and bathrooms, as well as total refurbishments. Over the last couple of years I've trained as a plasterer, and now, since moving here, concentrate mainly on that trade. But as always, I can do most things that my customers need, so that they don't need to call in several different tradesmen to get a job done. I've just teamed up with Jim and I'm now currently fitting a kitchen in Langney.

With Cliff on the team we should be able to do even more of those outstanding jobs you have -especially those that pile up before and after Christmas. If you have jobs that you would like done before Christmas call Jim on 07930 335 937.

Rain stopped play

What a miserable week (weatherwise) last week was.

It rained, and rained, and rained, and then it rained some more. My plan had been to complete the basement porch. Someone must have heard about my plan, and smiled. Then that someone let it rain for forty days and forty nights... No, that was someone else, wasn't it? It just felt like forty days and nights.

What I did manage to do was catch up with other workloads.

I've changed several light fittings, renewed sockets, switches, and a cooker hood, replaced washers on literally dozens of taps, rehung a couple of doors, restored two of my customers computers to fully functioning former glory, replaced a hand rail, built some flatpack, custom built a kitchen cabinet to hide a boiler, hung some curtains, and wired up a door bell. The one thing I didn't do last week was stop and offer a lift to a young teenage girl standing at a lonely bus stop in the pouring rain.

Why not?

Prejudice and cowardice!

I'm a 55 year old man driving a builder's van.

She was about 11 - 16 (who can tell?) and drowning at the bus stop.

Driving along the road, I was approaching the bus stop and saw her standing there, trying to hide behind the bus stop pole for protection against the rain.

I started to slow down, intending to offer a her a lift.

The windscreen wipers were having difficulty keeping up with the rain.

In the same second as I started to slow down, I made the decision to continue on without stopping. I don't think she even noticed me or the van.

Twenty years ago I would have stopped.

Ten years ago I would have stopped.

Five years ago I would have stopped.

But last week I didn't.

As I prepared to slow down, my thoughts were purely selfish.
She'll think I'm some sort of pervert.

She'll be afraid.

She could accuse me of something afterwards and I will have no defence.

and many other scenarios filled me with disquiet.

I have found the whole thing strangely sad.

She will never know that it made me feel wretched.

What has happened that we have developed into a society where I, and people like me, don't do what comes naturally (to offer help), because we are afraid of what might never happen.
Am I getting older and wiser, or simply older and more afraid?

A basement porch

This week I've beeen in the process of building a porch over a stairway to a basement.

The rain has not helped!
Raf the plasterer has been going home miserable and looking like a drowned rat.
Sometimes it has felt like a training camp for the Somme.

An old loo had to be taken out, the brickwork made good and raised up to give what will be a full height ante room. The brickwork was in a terrible condition and the render was falling off the walls. Added to that we needed to sink a sump hole right next to an old main sewer pipe.
The basement has flooded several times over the years and so the owners are installing a sump pump to (hopefully) cope with any new flooding. Now that all the ground work is done the next stage is to build the superstructure. This should be completed next week if the weather allows.
I'll be publishing pictures as the project develops and they can be viewed on my photo blog.
To see what's happening follow this link it will be updated daily.

Edwardian Style Room Divider

I had a lovely job to do this week.

"We want to close off the through lounge so that we can utilise the back room as a consulting room for homeopathy"
That's what they wanted.
That's what they got...
It would have been easy to throw up a room divider of some sort - but this couple wanted it to be in keeping with the age of the house - and so I was given free rein.
They are delighted with the result.

Click the following link to See slide show
They are in the process of transferring their highly respected homeopathy consultation rooms from Brighton to Eastbourne.
I suspect Brighton's loss is Eastbourne's gain.
If you are thinking about homeopathic treatments and want good advice visit their website.
I know you will be as impressed as I am.
Follow this link or the one in the side bar.

Electric Heaters (Atlantic)

Is it me - am I getting too old - or are controls on even the simplest of gadgets getting absurdly complicated?
Is it me - am I getting too old - or do the instructions on even the simplest of gadgets have to be printed in the minutest of type?
Is it no longer possible to write a simple, one page manual, in English rather than a useless tome of several dozen pages in almost every known obscure language.
I haven't come across anybody that hasn't, at some time or another, been annoyed by the incomprehensible gobbledygook that comes vomiting out of every new (EU standardised package) item.
Is all this nonsense for the benefit of the mindless politically correct twittering classes, or is it just for the ultimate convenience of some faceless corporations.

What is he going on about, you may be asking yourself.

Well, I had a call from a lady asking me to come and see her. (oh yes, you may be surprised that I'm still in demand at my age!!!!) She'd just moved into a brand new luxury apartment (does anybody live in a normal flat anymore?) in Sovereign Harbour. It was a cold day and she couldn't get the heaters to function. Now please take note... This lady was a very smart lady. Articulate, charming, graceful, intelligent, beautiful and computer literate. She'd set up the television, the computer and even the microwave on her own! But try as she might she couldn't get the heating working.

Along came I.

The heaters look nice: sleek, elegant, and obviously not cheap. But icy cold. The controls are on the top right of the unit. I suppose that they could have been made smaller, but that would have been blatant cruelty. Imagine if you will a 2"x 1" space on which are a plethora of lights dials and sliders.
The symbols are clear - but only if you have the eyesight of an eagle and can read things embossed white on white in the half light of a normal sitting room. With the use of a magnifying glass and a strong light (I kid you not) it was just possible to decipher the hieroglyphics.
After a few more minute the heater was functioning wonderfully.

At home I have an electric heater. I switch one switch for one bar, and two switches for two bars. Even I with my builders hands can operate the controls with consummate ease. The fire is some twenty years old... if we could do it then why can't we do it now?
What mindboggling progress have we made that enables us to make something so simple so complicated. My suspicion is that they (whoever they are) do it simply because they can - and sod the end user.

Flatpack and customer service

I had three calls from regular customers today, all needing flat pack assembled.
Two of the items were standard flat pack type furniture units; simple and straightforward enough.
The other one was a "self assembly" fitness bike.
You know the things I mean...
They stand in many a home, unused, except in the first flush of enthusiasm.
Thereafter they become silent clothes horses.
Well this (next year's clothes horse) needed to be assembled first.
"It's for my daughter" she explained.
The man who sold it to her said it only needed four pieces put together to complete the assembly, and yes she would be easily capable of doing it.
Well I am here to tell you that the salesman had either no idea what he was talking about (in which case he is at best a nitwit), or else he was maliciously mendacious.
It took me the better part of 30 minutes to sort the thing out.
It would have taken the lady, by her own admission, more than 30 hours!
In another life I was a highly successful Direct Salesman.
For those of you who don't already know direct sales is a feast or famine game.
Some weeks you'll feast on roast chicken
other days all you'll have to eat is feathers.
The pressures to perform and reach targets are unrelenting.
It's a very exciting way to live.
The temptation to dupe is huge and ever present.
It is purely down to an individual's personal integrity which way they go.
My erstwhile mentor in sales was a guy called Greg Barnes.
He used to say that the "tools" of the salesperson and the "tools" of the con artist are the same....

The ONLY difference between a sales person and a con artist is intent!

A salesperson does things to help a customer reach a decision that is good for the customer.
The con artist does things to make the customer reach a decision that is good for the con artist.
People with good intent and personal integrity, aren't those the type of people we all want to deal with?
The lady has said she will never go back to that shop again.
I think she's right to think like that, don't you?

Fixed my own toilet!!!!

For (at least!) the last two months we've been living with water hammer.
Since mid September we've had the drone of water hammer every time the loo was used. Having a handyman as a husband, my wife should have been able to expect the job to be done immediately. Why has she been waiting for so long? I hear you cry. To be honest I have no idea! It's bugged me since it started! The drone was terrible. It just went on and on.
We were having a lie in this morning/afternoon and all of a sudden I decided to fix it. So there I was, on a peaceful Sunday, in my lolly gaggers, head under the cistern, replacing the defective ball valve. It only took a few minutes and the job was done.
What I still can't figure out is why it took so long for me to get around to it. . I knew what the problem was. I had the parts in the van. I had the tools to hand. I knew it would only take a few minutes. So why oh why did it take so long? Can any one tell me?

Draughtproofing Sash Windows

Over today and tomorrow (Thu-Fri) I'm re-cording and draughtproofing all the sash windows in a 19th century house (seven in total). It ranks up there with door hanging as one of my favourite jobs to do. I'm using Mighton products to do the job. I've used other draughtproofing setups before, but this company really impresses. Mighton is a sash window hardware manufacturer. They are so easy to deal with. Order the goods before 16.30 and they arrive next day. Their service has been exemplary. If you have a broadband connection go to their website and have a look at the Sash Window Television flash videos!!!!

Sash windows have quite a history.
I've copied the following directly from their website for those too lazy to click through to their history page. Enjoy reading and if you want your sash windows overhauled give me a call on 07930 335 937.

The Old Norse had a word for the simple openings in the walls of buildings that let light in and arrows out -vindauga.
It translates as `wind eye' the penalty obviously for anyone peering too long through those draughty slits. Almost 1,000 years later, vindauga had evolved into 'window' and arrow slits into the classic sash window - a simple yet weatherproof closure offering the perfect balance between illumination and ventilation. and for which Mighton Products today specialises in providing a comprehensive range of sash window ironmongery.
But for the skills of London-based master joiner Thomas Kinward, it might have taken longer for the development of the box framed sash window. In 1669 or thereabouts, he was working in the Royal apartments at Whitehall Palace. His employer, Sir Christopher Wren asked him to put 'a line and pulley to the window in ye Queen's Stoole room. 'It was the earliest recorded specification of a fully developed sash window. Whether Kinward thought up the characteristic counter-balancing feature or whether it was Wren himself, is undecided. But for two centuries, the sash window reigned supreme.
By the time Anne was crowned in 1702, the traditional but inconvenient English casement window with leaded lights had all but been abandoned in favour of the sash that became the hallmark of Georgian architecture. Early versions of the sash's classic arrangement of two lights independently held in a box frame, were single hung; the upper light was fixed, only the lower light was able to slide in the frame. By the mid 18th Century double-hung sashes were supreme.
Counter balancing was the hallmark of the era but although `sash' derives from the French word `chassis', the French hadn't figured out the counter-balancing innovation and held the lower sash in place with a swivel block. Each light had its own cord and counter-balance weight or 'mouse' running within the hollow frame of the whole window. Each light could slide independently within the frame yet remain in an open position without props, pegs or wedges.
The early sashes held their small and expensive panes of glass with thick glazing bars. Developments in the manufacture of Crown Glass brought larger panes cut from large glass discs, sometimes up to 3ft in diameter. The thick centre, where the blower's rod was attached and which today is mimicked by the bull's eye panes, was discarded or sold cheaply for use at the back of the house. With larger panes, glazing bars became thinner, more intricately moulded and the classic six-over-six pane design became the norm.
The Victorian passion for things medieval revived Gothic architecture and ostentatious buildings. Mass production made ornamentation cheap and builders added pattern book styles without hesitation. Sash windows became highly decorated with leaded lights, latticework and ornate stone and wood tracery. The Victorians played the field with four, eight or twelve- pane sashes. The finest would have been 16-pane double hung sashes that lent themselves to the larger window openings and bay fronts.
More than any other component, the size, shape and number of windows created the essential style and rhythm of these buildings - both inside and out. Vertically- proportioned sash windows provided comfortable natural lighting conditions and avoided excessive glare. A careful graduation in window size from street level not only intensified the effect of perspective but allowed more light into the more important rooms on lower floors.
Today at Mighton Products we see windows as relevant to the personality of a workman's terrace or the shopkeeper's villa as to the cleric's manse and the gentry's hall. However, the doors and windows that created this architectural impact and historic character are threatened.
Conservationists fear the legacy developed by the proportions, detailing, and materials of windows and doors is being lost by the insensitive replacement with modern designs.
The offenders? Misinformation, financial incentives to modernise old houses and door-to-door sales campaigns by home`improvement' companies.
Mighton Products doesn't denounce all PVCu and aluminium products.
The key word is `inappropriate'. Generally new systems do not match the detailing of traditional windows. False glazing bars and stuck-on lead look nothing like the real thing and often are a crude parody. In many cases, simple repairs at relatively low cost will extend the life of a door and window. Local surgery is usually a far better bet than costly wholesale replacement.
An overhaul to timber windows coupled with draught proofing, using Mighton Products sash window ironmongery, will provide a better financial return and reduce the old problem of `wind eye' more than double glazing.
If you want your sash windows overhauled give Jim a call on 07930 335 937.

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

I've just installed "Snap Shots" on this blog. It gives you visual previews of any links I suggest. Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not. Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

Kitchen Fitter Plumber Carpenter Electrician Handyman Eastbourne

One of the things I'm doing this week is fitting a kitchen.
It's from B&Q. Bits are either missing or damaged.
Kitchen fitting demands a large range of skills from carpentry and plumbing to electrics and tiling, and can often include plastering and decorating.
There's nothing particularly difficult about fitting a kitchen, but only having some of the parts does make it far more interesting to fit. A sink without a strainer. The same sink without the blanking plug. Worktop damaged (under the label!!!!!). Worktop jointing bolts, but no compound. Drawer fronts damaged (but not a mark on the packaging). To be fair, it doesn't matter where the kitchen comes from, there will almost always be one or two hiccups.
The reason I prefer to use a trade supplier is that when things do go wrong (as they will) I've always found they are put right immediately. My preference is whenever possible to use Howdens Joinery Ltd in Eastbourne. They are super friendly, bend over backwards to help, and always have good deals.

Some shelves please

I had a call last week to put up some shelves in an alcove.
I've done work for the customers before and always enjoy going back.
They wanted storage space for all sorts of things.
Once we'd had a look at the alcove I made a couple of suggestions and together we came up with a neat solution to house piles of stuff that didn't need to be on display.

This was the end result.

As always click on the image to enlarge.

If you'd like something similar,

call Jim on 07930 335 937

Hanging doors

I love hanging doors.
I've said it before and I'll no doubt say it again.
I just love it.
Today I had five of them to do.
If you'd like to do it yourself there is a video on VIDEOJUG that will give you a method to follow. To watch it Follow this link.
Personally I don't follow that routine, but it will give you a good basic idea of how to do it.
Door hanging is not for the faint hearted or uninitiated. If you need it done properly give me a call on 07930 335 937.
Now back to the job...
I have a lot of fabulous customers all over Eastbourne and surrounds, which means I have drunk a lot of tea in a lot of houses!!!! But I have to say that today I have been spoilt rotten.
Biscuits, cake, chocolate bars, sandwiches, and sausage rolls. I must have put on 5 lbs.
Add to that pots and pots of tea , and I know I have single handedly helped increase the share prices of PG Tips and Typhoo by several points.
My customers are delighted with the finished result - which is (they say) why they called me in.
Now what's the web address for weight watchers?

Reka Dom

Trish was down in Devon on business last week and stayed at what she called a wonderful B&B in Topsham (on the outskirts of Exeter). To call it a B&B conveys a slightly distorted picture. It is in fact a very large 17th century house, with several superior self contained apartments. Since she got back Trish hasn't stopped telling everyone how lovely it all was. Take a look at the photos above and follow this link to see their website. The accommodation is of a very high standard, the food is divine, and the hostess both charming and elegant. That's Trish's opinion and her recommendation.

Burlington Bell Cistern

Had to refurbish and refit an old burlington cistern this morning.
Solid cast iron, 80 years old, and still working.
How long does a modern cistern last?
Not that long, that's for definite.
If you're curious as to how they work follow this link


And here's the matching pan!
They don't make them like this any more!

Hailsham and the Eastbourne Handyman

In a previous life - about 20 long years ago,

I was living in Germany, driving European Road Trains
(which make UK trucks look like Dinky toys)
from Germany to Morocco, Denmark to Tunisia, Sweden to Portugal, or any other combination of European and North African countries you might care to think about.

I used to drive thousands of miles a week.

I'd be at home for two, possibly three days a month, and I loved it.

I used to love to travel to new destinations.
It was like being on holiday, and getting well paid for it!

I had huge amount of fun.

But everything has a price tag.

It only cost me a good marriage and a lifetime of guilt!

Why am I telling you this?

Nowadays I virtually never work outside of Eastbourne!

Two main reasons

1. Absolutely no need

There is lots of work available on the doorstep in Eastbourne

2. Absolutely no desire

I can't think of one good reason to travel any sort of distance.

Having said all that, I now find myself going up to Hailsham (that's a huge journey of about 7-8 miles - ONE WAY!!!) on a regular basis.

It started when I got a phone call from a lady who had read this blog.

"I need some work done, can you help?" she asked.

"The answer's 'Yes, what's the address" I replied.

When she said "South Street" I already had a mental image of a road in Eastbourne.

"Hailsham" she said.

I was about to say "I don't operate outside of Eastbourne" (my normal reply), when she said "I've read your blog and I think it's great!"

What a sucker punch!

I'm no different to anybody else - I love having my vanity stroked!

I swear, any other reason would have failed - miserably.
But because I was flattered, I now find myself going up to Hailsham every week to do carpentry, plumbing, and electrics. The lady and her family are fabulous to work with, and I really enjoy going up there. They want a lot of work done, so expect a few posts from Hailsham over the coming months.

Whoever said flattery doesn't work is a fool!

Washing Line "Designer" ware

I was asked to put up a new washing line by a customer the other day.

Rotary dryer
When I first saw it, I was impressed.
It's nicely packaged.
The concept is, at first glance, great.
It has a neat appearance
The quality appears to be good
I would imagine that for anybody who has only a small amount of space available to dry clothes on it would seem ideal.

Here are a few things that came to mind as I was fitting it.
1. Fitting is simple but unnecessarily fiddly.
2. Most outside walls I've come across are rough - in a moderate breeze anything larger than a set of ladies undies are likely to be scraping against the wall. A man's shirt, or a ladies dress would almost certainly be slapping against the wall. The maximum distance from wall to end of dryer is 6' (pic 1).
3. It folds away to a small size (pic 2). The rain cover is held on by two press studs (pic 3). I wonder how many fingers are going to be scraped on the wall getting the cover on and off.
4. The release mechanism (pic 4) to close it up will at some point snare a finger or two.
5. My understanding of a rotary dryer is that it spins - this dryer doesn't, so I don't understand why it's termed a ROTARY dryer.


"Powder and paint, makes the thing what it ain't" is a phrase my father used to use to describe a lot of things. I wonder if he would have used it in this case.

Another deck in Eastbourne

Click on any of the pictures to see them full size.

If you need a handyman call me on 07930 335 937 or email me I'll be happy to help

Being a handyman in Eastbourne!

Variety!
That's one of the main reasons I love being a handyman in Eastbourne.
No two days are the same
Take yesterday.
In the morning I worked for one of my favourite clients building bookcases.
In the afternoon I went to several different clients and fixed two toilet ball valves, a bath-waste leak, an inoperative pop-up basin waste, renewed an outside tap, connected a washing machine and dishwasher, disconnected four light fittings, repaired a wonky window, and finished the day by rescuing a customer's personal data files from a computer Hard Drive that had given up the ghost.

I love what I do, and I'm told that what I do I do well.

Under stairs storage cupboard

I've been building video storage units for a customer today. Over the past month I've constructed several units in different locations around the house. In fact apart from the stair well itself, there are video storage units everywhere. He has thousands upon thousnds of videos, and despite my best efforts, we still don't have enough storage. We've now commandeered the under-stairs broom cupboard to accomodate some more. He tells me that we have only racked and stacked less than half his total collection! I find other people's lives fascinating! Here are some more pictures of various units...

What my wife wants she gets!

Click on image to enlarge...

Trish wanted a window that overlooks our neighbours blocked up this weekend, and so I obliged by turning it into a tall display niche. I thought Sunday was supposed to be a day of rest. The things we do for love!

Custom built cupboards

Click on any image to enlarge....


Yes, more custom fit cupboards!
The brief...
Take a wide, shallow, entrance hall and maximise the cupboard space without making it claustrophobic. Vast amounts of hanging space, endless shelves for shoes, plus room for a Henry and his super long tail needed to be accommodated. The customer had made a plan... one brief look, and I made another! Ideas were thrown around and some thrown out.
We settled on floor to ceiling cupboards on one side of the entrance way and high base units and wall cupboards on the other. It took three days to build and a substantial amount of sheet MDF .
The results are in the pictures above. Double hanging rails swallow all the coats, dozens and dozens of shoes are lined up neatly on multiple shelves. Henry has his own tall cubby hole, and there's a separate cupboard for the bowls bags and equipment. Who was all this for? Limo feva. No doubt you've seen their fantastic fleet of pristine limousines in and around Eastbourne. The pink one is the one that stands out from the crowd. Have a look at some of their fleet at http://www.limofeva.co.uk/ Many say it's the only way to travel.

Fit a Baby Belling

Sometimes life flashes by so quickly. I've just realised it's over a month since I last posted anything to this blog! So this weekend I will be making amends by writing a few new posts.

Here's the first

A good friend of mine, Zena Parker, is 80+. I've written of her before. She makes the most delicious rock cakes - perhaps that's why we're friends - because I like to eat delicious rock cakes. In fact I like to eat anything sweet!

But I digress....

For over twenty five years she has used the same oven to make her cakes buns and biscuits. The oven has, like Zena, grown weary, but had to date not once given up. Now the cooker has been retired and a lighter brighter smaller cooker has taken its place. Zena bought a Baby Belling. My first thought on hearing this was - no more rock cakes (Yes, I know, I can be quite selfish)! My second thought was where is she going to put it? Then I realised that was why she was calling.

She had a plan - and at first - it seemed a good plan. Take the old cooker out and make a low cupboard to sit the Baby on. "Yes" I said with my best can do voice. "I'll be around in a couple of minutes". When I arrived I went into the kitchen and knew straight away we were going to have a problem. The old cooker is at least 10x bigger than the new cooker, but, and it is a very big BUT, old cooker 56cm wide, new cooker 58cm wide. In a fitted kitchen that's a problem.

After a couple of minutes of perplexed looks trying to explain that the new midget cooker was too big to go in the hole, the lights slowly went on. We (I) would have to cut down cupboards to make more room for the baby cooker. And so I did.

The baby cooker is 58cm wide, but the hole has to be no less than 63cm wide to comply with manufacturer's instructions.

Below you can see the solution.

It's amazing what can be done with a bit of MDF.

Click on the pictures to see them large!

Eastbourne Handyman Jim

We're expanding!
This week Ralf has come on board. He's an experienced plasterer, and also enjoys the odd bit of brickwork! He will take the place of Graham who has moved to Felixstowe.
Ralf is young fit and healthy - all those things that I was once! Five weeks ago he became a dad for the first time, and is now champing at the bit to do a lot of work.
And thanks to Andi Emma Adam and Milo who deliver leaflets for Jim'll Fix we have a very busy diary. So if you need a Carpenter Plumber Electrician Painter Plasterer Gardener or Brickie give me a call.
Jim on 07930 335 937 or email me.

Plumbing: Change a ball valve on a toilet cistern

As a handyman I get called to many overflow problems.

There are many variations on this theme.

Whether its a toilet cistern, cold water tank, or the central heating header tank, the process is generally very similar.

I've taken a couple of photos while on the job to show you what neeeds to be done.

The object in question is a side entry low level cistern. It's probably the simplest to do.

In a ideal world the sequence is as follows:

1. TURN OFF THE WATER!

2. FLUSH TOILET!
(Let out at least some of the water)

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3. DISCONNECT BALL VALVE FROM SUPPLY
(usually 15mm pipe - but not always)

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4. UNDO BACK NUT AND REMOVE BALL VALVE
Normally two nuts hold the ball valve in place -
one on the inside and one on the outside.

5. FIT NEW BALL VALVE

Just reverse the order of doing the above.

Turn water on and check for correct function AND LEAKS!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again it's a simple process, but simple doesn't mean easy, and be aware, there are things that can go wrong.
If you are in any doubt - call me (Jim) on 07930 335 937.