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Im fitting a new bathroom at the front of the house, sewers and soil pipe are at the back so have fixed the new pipe down the side of the house (20mm fall per metre for a 1:50 gradient) whats the best way to connect into the existing pipe? have seen strap on bosses but not seen any that...

check if the plumber has put in any isolation valves, best to use full bore ones, the standard ones reduce the Cross sectional area through the pipe so could possibly cause a slight loss in pressure. Also new mixer taps (normally the cheaper ones) have much smaller connection pipes up to the...

thanks for help, found the building regs portal on the net which is pretty useful. Will staggar the connections for the bath and sink. cheers!

most soil pipe connections I have seen have the sink/ bath connecting in on junctions which are at the same level as the toilet outlet. Can the outlets for the sink/ bath connect into the soil pipe below the toilet connection? as the outlet of the bath will be lower than the toilet outlet at...

I did a similar thing this weekend fitting a new radiator, had to drain the system completly in the end as the drain valve was perished and wouldn't seal again. bleed all the radiators but rad's were still cold, heating was going for a while and pump started to get noisy so switched it off...

I am currenty installing a new bathroom upstairs (curently only one downstairs which will be converted to just a toilet and sink when upstairs is finished). Is it standard practice to run a 22mm supply pipe around the new bathroom and tee off with 15mm pipes for bath/ toilet sink for both...

Yeah thanks all, guess the only donwside is the slightly smaller bedroom but it was a funny shape anyway so probably making the most of the space. Re the Gran, they do say that having a downstairs toilet increases your life expectancy by about 20-30 years though, something about having to...

I am in the process of fitting a new bathroom upstairs in a 3 bed semi. This house was built in the 1930's so the current bathroom is downstairs in an extension off the back of the kitchen/ dining room. Just wondered if anyone knew how this would effect the price of the house? Would have to...

ok, will have another look. Thanks

Just bought a 1.9td citroen, not a bad car really but not starting that well. I have done a continuity check on all the glow plugs and they all seem fine. When its cold I tend to give it 2 lots of heating and it normally starts ok but imagine as the weather gets colder it will probably get...