Recent content by JeffSouthgate

Thanks, Chris. They are plastic push-fit joints.

... then lift the floorboard and see if that is true. Or get one of his friendly employees to do it so that you can see. If he did a good job for your brother, can your brother come round and give you some moral support?

...well that says it all. He is not denying that it can be done more neatly, just that it's easier for him to leave you with ugly work. The same is true of the pipes emerging on your depressed landing. In a dwelling house the appearance of the work is just as important as its other...

Your photographs are very helpful, although we can only guess what is under the floors. The plumber has laid his pipes towards the centre of the corridors on either side of the depressed landing. The problem is that he has brought the pipes out through the steps before turning them toward the...

It sounds as if your staircase rises to a small landing, from which two shorter flights ascend: one to the front of the house and one to the back addition. Your description suggests that the plumber has run pipes up from the ground floor under the main staircase to this landing, and then he...

Thanks to you all for your thoughts on this. The plastic pipe under the screed is of the type called HEP. The joints are plastic compression joints. I share your concern that putting them in the screed has made it hard to inspect or maintain the pipe and joints. However, the builder assures...

Thanks for this, Tony. So if the debris moves away from the hole, it could leak again? The builder is doing his best to fix it, but, as you can see, the problem is a bit tricky. There are joints in the pipes under the screed, but only under the radiators, where the feed and return pipes are...

As part of extending the house, my builder added radiators to my existing central heating system. He used plastic pipes and compression joints to feed the new radiators. He laid these pipes on the new concrete sub-floor and covered them with a 3-inch sand and cement screed that finishes the...