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    Basin bottle trap leaking at join to waste

    Thanks for the top advice on stopping the leak from within the basin and around the waste. Now we've a new problem! Where the square chrome bottle trap meets and connects to the bottom of the slotted waste, the two pipes butt together with a flat rubber washer between them. A nut then...
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    Monobloc will not tighten

    Thanks to everyone who has offered help and advice so far :) We've bought a Crosswater Hey Joe! Basin Monobloc (http://www.crosswater.co.uk/productsingle.asp?BrandID=19). We have a Twyfords Pure basin with a 35mm tap hole. The tap has narrow metal threaded rod which goes into the base...
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    Overflow into soil pipe - how to stop smell?

    We live in a flat and have a combined immersion/cold tank. The immersion section is at the bottom and has a small cold tank on the top. Coming out of the cold tank is an overflow pipe right at the top. This used to connect into the bath waste when the bath was on the other side of the wall...
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    Connected new cistern, button makes mooing noise, no water

    Hello Hope somebody can offer some urgent advice! We have finally connected up our Grohe Eau 2 cistern today after biting the bullet and cutting down the pipes to make it flush to the false wall which contains the cistern itself. Foolishly I pressed the air button in before any water...
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    Help hanging 700 wide wall-hung basin

    Hope that somebody can help me (again!) :) We've bought a Twyfords Pure Energy basin (a badged Keramag 50 by Antonio Citterio). The basin is intended to be wall hung and has an integral chrome towel rail (not shown on this picture): The basin is 700mm wide and has 430mm screw hole...
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    Cutting flush pipe on Grohe Eau 2 concealed cistern

    Hello Thank you to everybody who has read and helped with my previous post on replacing our toilet. I now have an issue with the Grohe Eau 2 concealed cistern. Having posted yesterday that it needs 420mm from the wall to the back of the BTW WC we measured that out today and the toilet...
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    Please, please help me plumb in my new toilet

    I'm being driven mad trying to plumb in our new toilet and hope that somebody can offer advice. Our bathroom is currently empty apart from the old pink toilet pan and we don't want to take out the pan until we can plumb in the new one but we can't finish tiling the floor until the old pan is...
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    Sink leaking around connection to McAlpine SK1 kit

    Hello We've just had a new Teka 1½ bowl sink and bought a McAlpine SK1 kit to fit it. Where the ½ bowl connects is fine as the black Teka provided connector went straight on to the straight pipe instead of the supplied connector. However, where the main bowl connection is, the black...
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    Pop up waste basin problem

    We're just having a new bathroom and have bought a monobloc tap and one taphole basin. Our plumber has just come to fit it but discovered that when the tap is on the basis, the pop-up waste "pull" on the back of the top sticks out further than the back of the basin. Once the splashback is...
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