Recent content by DarrellS

Cheers Guys, I spoke with one of the plumbing "experts" from B&Q and he assured me that as i was only, in effect, adding another 5 feet of waste to the original installation I should be ok. The smells are coming from both the bathroom area and the en-suite but I also noticed that I am getting...

Thanks DJbunny. Would i get away with fitting an in line vac trap on the final run to the soil stack do you think ?

Htgeng, Yes I moved my bathroom around though the toilet stayed in it's original place, the sink swapped ends with the bath. At the same time I added an en-suite to my bedroom so the waste from the sink and the shower cubicle run into the same 40mm pipe work that leads to the soil stack. Why ?

Well I did reinstate the soil stack as PTH suggested but still the smells keep coming. Could this be due to the fact that I have removed the box section around the soil stack and the smells are permiating back up through the gap left. Does that make sense anyone :?

Can anyone explain to me what exactly a Durgo Valve is supposed to do???? Thanks

Thanks for the reply. That's a shame as I've used the remaning piece that goes out through the roof for the extractor fan in the en-suite I fitted recently !!!!! I wonder if I can tee off of it somehow. Then the problem I will have is the smell coming back through the fan in the en-suite I...

Last year I replaced my bathroom suite and when I did this I cut out the top of the waste, you know the piece that goes off up through the roof, and put a Durgo Valve on the remaining waste pipe in the bathroom. Now If I don't use the sinks/bath/shower for any small period of time I seem to get...