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I thought about a mastic. My concern is that if it doesn't work I'll end up with a right mess that will be difficult to undo. Difficult to be 100% sure what the pipe is made from. It's a hard material, you can shave it with a stanley but would have difficulty cutting into it. I would say...

I have an old fashioned internal cast iron soil stack that is extremely inaccessible without knocking walls down. There is a pipe that comes off the soil pipe and through an internal wall into the bathroom to connect the bath waste to. I have recently replaced the bath and pipework and am having...

Thanks for the advice. Cracking the nut to the rad's inlet whilst all other rad's were off seemed to free up the circulation to that rad. Afterwards, a bit of tinkering with the balancing seems to have resolved the problem. Thanks again

I know there are loads of topics on this already but it is difficult to extract the relevant 'bits' to my circumstance so here goes: My friends living room radiator hadn't been working for some time, I have done a little plumbing so we decided to give it a go. The radiator needed to be...

I need to replace a valve on my upstairs bathroom radiator as the 'head' is cracked and the rad cannot be turned on brrrrr. There is a combi boiler system in the house. There is not a 'drain off' on the pipework for the heating. I assume that in order to drain down the system to replace the...