Recent content by MarkSmith

Yes, any particular ones to use or avoid? I will check that anything we use will disintegrate easily in water before using it.

Update on this, in case anyone should have the same question in the future. I couldn't easily find an alternative device which was going to fit the space and do what I needed, and I couldn't convince myself that the restriction was more than butt-covering by the manufacturer, so I fitted the ST...

Thanks. Could you elaborate a bit on that please? What effect does that have if I add a 10cm extension?

Hello, Fitting a back-to-wall toilet in loft conversion, with use of a macerator. Macerator to go behind a partition wall. I have bought a Stuart Turner WC3 and upon unpacking read in the manual that it "must be located immediately behind the WC pan and must not be mounted behind a partition...

Thanks JustPumps - very useful. Thanks also for the tips on access. The unit will be in storage space which meets all those recommendations quite nicely. The 'Saniaccess 2' looks suitable, based on what you're saying. The ability to service with it in place sounds very useful.

LOL ROFLCON LFMAO etc. Any actual advice much appreciated.

Hello, We're in the middle of a loft conversion which includes a small en-suite toilet. It may possibly include a shower, but probably not, due to space constraints. We need a macerator. The outlet will need to go straight up about 1m, up at 45deg (along roof line) about 1m, and along about...

Thanks for the replies all. Some useful suggestions. All sorts of reasons. Maybe a plumbing problem inside the boxing which requires the boxing to be removed. Re-tiling is less costly than re-tiling and replacing sink. A few years ago I moved a basin about a foot to the right to accommodate...

Hi, Apologies if this is the wrong forum - I'll repost in a different section if there is a more appropriate option. I am fitting a wall-hung basin to a tiled wall. It rocks very slightly due to either the basin or the wall not being perfectly flat. I am concerned this means that pressure is...

Thanks all for the replies. I might buy one and see how it goes -- it's only £20. Are you suggesting that it can be trimmed 2.5 times as much as they say it can? Do you know this for certain please? Standard width but not standard height would be, my my reckoning, not-a-standard-size, no? :)...

Hi, I have to replace a bedroom door which is a non-standard size. 715x1920mm, give or take a few mm. Most of the doors in the house are six-panel grain effect moulded ones, this sort of thing, and it would be good to have one which matches...

Thanks Stem, very thorough. The whole house has plenty of "legacy" considerations of all kinds. Although I doubt the boiler is 40 years old, I can well imagine the rest of the system hasn't been properly reworked in that long. I'll bear in mind that I've got a significant job ahead of me when...

More pictures as requested: I think I may have answered my own original question, though: I had a closer look at the wiring, and only one "signal" goes to the boiler: hot water. The other control, central heating, goes only to the pump. So my guess is that there's no valve at all, and it...

Thanks all - I'll get more photos.

Thanks. There are neither of those near the cylinder (in a bedroom, immediately above the boiler), nor visible in the living room where the back-boiler is, nor in the cellar below the boiler where the central heating pump is. If it helps at all, the cable going to the boiler has four cores...