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I'm in the process of tiling my Fathers conservatory floor, but getting to the tricky bit, around the sliding door. The sliding mechanism is only 5mm above the floor screed, so I need to remove a good 1/2'' of screed under the door to get tile and adhesive under it... I'll have to put slight...

Evening Gents.... Currently, we have a gravity water system, with a 250litre tank in the loft, 160litre HW cylinder, heated by a Vaillant (sp?) boiler. This feeds the house with HW including an Aqualisa Digital pumped shower which, I know from experience of my daughter using it :roll: ...

Hi all.... I'm wondering if some of my copper pipes are getting corroded where they enter a concrete floor, and should I be thinking about re-routing the pipework? We have an extension which, i think, used to be the old outside toilet/coal shed, (1950's ex council house). This extension...

Last year I replaced the old cold water tank in the loft with a bigger one, in anticipation of a bathroom re-fit and power shower which has now been done. I've often wondered how much water the shower uses, (as I lay in bed listening to the tank refilling above me!), but the other day the...

Hello People.... I'm trying to figure out how to connect my new WC to the outside soil stack. The current WC is on one wall of the corner bathroom, and I'm moving it t the other wall, and planning on running the wate pipe from the WC along the wall then through the wall to the soil stack...

I'm refurbing the bathroom and needed a sparky to wire in the whirlpool bath and aqualisa pumped shower unit. Got a guy in and he said it would be no problem, fit an RCD and fused spur.... but... my consumer unit needed replacing too. (current one has the pop-out button cicuit breakers)...

OK, so my plan was to completely refurbish the bathroom... gut the whole room, fit new whirlpool bath with Aqualisa Quartz pumped shower over it, new vanity unit, WC, PVC cladding to walls and ceiling, and new flooring. Plan A was to get "phase 1" (ripping old bath out, cladding the...

ok... me again with another question.... :-) I'm looking for a wall mounted bath filler, that will work at 0.1 bar. (Taps will be about 1.5m below base of CWT) A few weeks ago I ordered a 3 hole, 0.1 bar bath filler, with matching basin tap, but having chased the supplier they today tell...

Hi All.... I've refurbing the bathroom and fitting an Aqualisa Quartz pumped, but can't decide where to site it. My options are running out and it looks like as a last resort I may have to site it in the loft, but I'm confused with the instructions from Aqualisa... "If siting in the...

ok, heres a puzzling one.... A couple of weeks ago I changed the washer in the toilet ballvalve... it was so old it had deformed and was hardly letting any water through... it used to take 20 mins for the cistern to refill..!! Anyway, I changed the washer and it now takes less than 5...

I'm planning on fitting a monobloc basin mixer tap in my new bathroom, but I'm wondering of I'll need a non-return valve on the hot supply.. The cold supply is mains fed at approx 1bar, but the hot supply will be gravity fed, at approx 0.2 bar. Do I need to fit a NRV on the hot supply...

ok, so I'm refurbing the bathroom, and tying to decide how to fill the bath.... I'll have H & C 22mm feeds from the HWC and the cold tank in the loft (8 ft above the bath) which I could connect to the bath taps, or.... I'm planning on fitting one of the Aqualisa Quartz pumped showers over...

I'm looking to replace my cordless drill / screwdriver but the main thing that bugs me about them is that you have remember to put the battery on charge in advance of using it.. (I have an old Homebase own brand one and its almost an overnight charge to get it to full charge, and it loses its...

In the next month I've having my boiler, HW cylinder and CW tank replaced. As we're also thinking about revamping the bathroom in the near future, I'm trying to plan ahead and get the plumbing ready for the posibility of a power shower. I'll have an extra outlet on the CW tank for the cold...