Recent content by Floppy1234

Some photos. The wall damage by dpm was where previous owners cut into the wall to lay slabs. The damp inside is the wall soil stack runs down. There was a leaking upstairs pipe, fixed now. The wall around the cement soil stack collar is pretty ropey. I was hoping to do a French drain against...

Thank you. The soil stack where it meets the ground does not go very deep, will a long radius bend 45 work there do you think? Im going to start clearing the soil away from the pipe today to show it better. Broke the manhole cover yesterday, after hours of trying to free it so felt fed up.The...

Morning Can anyone help with how to replace the asbestos collar and clay pipe please. The vertical soil stack is plastic. The new pipe will need to enter a manhole. I am unable to access the manhole as yet as there is render covering a wall which has covered some of the manhole. I am hoping to...

Thank you. That sounds a good idea.

Thank you Hugh. I do seem to have a weird underground drainage system with that pipe in the ground going to a manhole at an angle and then to another manhole at another angle. Seems strange to me as there is a manhole straight ahead of pipe so could go straight ahead without the angle? I will...

Yes something like that. I thought the soil pipe was plastic actually so its suprised me that people think the collar is asbestos based cement . I was initially wondering whether to use a polyurethane sealant and then to re cement over the sealant.

Thank you everyone for the replies. I think Im going to try denso wrap. Its definitely not blocked.

Hi, I have a leak at ground level around the cement? collar of a downpipe.Any suggestions of how to fix it it all please.Many thanks.

Thank you both. I have had a look in the loft. The vertical timber is going through the ceiling into the loft. The doorway lintel is attached to this and a timber in the attic also looks like it's attached he'd to it. The vertical timber is not sitting in the floorboards though,a few mms above...

Thank you. What will the loft tell me? Is there something I should be particularly looking for?

Hello, I have recently moved into a 1900 terraced house. The bathroom upstairs is in what was originally a 3rd bedroom. The doorway for bathroom has been made behind the original bedroom doorway. The upstairs landing is very small and the original doorway is a real pain. I would like to...

Hi All, I have a Grundfos S electric pump for central heating and hot water. It is UPS 15-50 130. It needs replacing and I have bought a replacement pump head. I have managed to get the old pump head one off but the impeller ? With the silver venting screw is still on the old part? Is that...

Hi, Bathroom is very cold and I am in the midst of doing some works so decided to have a look at extractor fan as it does seem quite large. I have removed it from wall and the hole is 190 mm in circumference. The general size of bathroom extractor fans is 100 mm so it does need reducing but...

Hi, Water is cold when I run taps and I have drained the cold water tank when checking the inlet pipes on pump yesterday. Just wondering if it's coincidental my shower and thermostat have broken at same time or have I missed something when I have been faffing around. I am not very experienced...

Hello, I have an unvented boiler system with cold water tank in loft with hot water cylinder in airing cupboard. Recently my outlet pipe on outside wall was pouring water ,I changed the Ballcock in cold water storage however problem persisted. I then changed the strap on thermostat on...