plumbing

Hoping someone may be able to offer some guidance on some groundworks drainage here. Close to completing on a new property and plan to complete a double-story side and single story rear wraparound extension. The image below shows the existing house as the red box, with the new extension in...

Hi all, My sink popper will happily go up and down all day long with the cover bit taken off of it - however when the cover top is put on it goes down and stays down (needs to be pryed up) Images below if someone is able to diagnose this and let me know how to fix or suggest the name of the...

Hi all, I wonder if anyone can offer some help. We have an old shower at the back of the house and would like to put the washing machine in there. The shower base raised and I wondered if it is possible to use the shower drain as the washing machine waste. I would want to run the waste pipe...

Hi First time poster here. Looking to renovate old bathroom on 1st floor of 1950s semi and want to relocate bath to a different corner. Is it possible to plumb the bath drain into the condensate drain pipe fitted for a combi boiler? It's a 1.5 inch PVC pipe which runs out of the external wall...

Hello, I have recently been taking on repair jobs as a self-employed trader for an estate agency that manages landlords properties. When I started taking on jobs for them I was originally asking for a flat rate of around £20-25 per hour. But then they asked me to work for £10 per hour, which...

We're desperate for a dishwasher, but our kitchen is tiny. Where could we fit one? Underneath the boiler? It wouldn't be deep enough though because of the pipes...

Help! Our wet room was fitted by the previous owners, we had a leak into room below which made us investigate and we can see that there is a seal where to pipes meet that has partially popped out of place and is visible inside the pipe. After monitoring we know it’s leaking through here. I...

Hi, First time here and looking forward to learn. I am right now doing up my new house, build with 9 inch thick brick walls, and I am using the HEP2O Push fit system. I have a room adjacent to a yard and in this room i will have a tap so I have a push fit 15mm pipe from this room, through the...

Hi. I have an old back boiler. The system has an F&E tank and a Grundfos pump. This week I turned on the heating for the first time of the winter and the boiler turns on but cuts out quickly. The pipe nearby gets hot, but none of the radiators do. Around 5 years ago, a Fernox Total Filter 1 was...

Greetings, I’d really appreciate any advice on this problem, I’ve done some googling but ended up even more confused. my problem is 2-fold: 1. the middle tap (mixer) doesn’t provide 100% cold water (always luke warm) even when turned all the way clockwise. 2. the top tap (shower...

Hi, About 30 months ago, a plumber replaced the Mira 415 cartridge to fix the shower going hot and cold. It fixed the problem but at the time he scratched his head and suggested that the pipework had been installed the wrong way around because the once the new cartridge was fitted, the cold and...

Hi there moved into a new build. Have always wondered why the cold tap in the kitchen seems to feed water that is not very cold (Even when ran for a good few mins) Realised today that when I run the cold tap , a pump beside a tank in the attic activates which makes me think it’s feeding water...

Hi, I have an old tap on the bath. Please see the attached image. Recently the water pressure is very low and flow is very slow. I cleaned the aerator. It is clean. The next step is to check the washer in the cartridge. But, I cannot open the top cap of the tap. How do I remove the tap cap...

I’m not a plumber firstly, but here goes. I’m doing a loft conversion, the new bathroom toilet is directly above the existing downstairs toilet. The plastic soil pipe in the downstairs concrete floor comes up about 9 inches from the wall. (I don’t want to take the soil pipe through an outside...

Hello, I'm currently in the process of having a new kitchen fitted and having my washing machine relocated. Unfortunately the waste pipe which I think is 50mm is slightly too far from the wall. I ideally need it to be attached to the wall but it is currently at least 3cm away from it...

Hi all. I am completely dense when it comes to plumbing/DIY. We recently had a leak in the valve that supplies the toilet. Inlet I think? The toilet is upstairs, but whilst fixing it, the plumber ran the taps up there, the shower and the downstairs kitchen tap. I didn't think much of it at the...

Hi, hoping someone can help me here. I have a 36mm OD solvent drain pipe that is cracked and has a piece missing at the concrete surface (circled in red in the attached pic). I don't want to have to dig out the concrete floor. I could cut the pipe about 2cm above the concrete surface. I could...

I am looking to replace our inside stop tap, but the outside isolator cover has a square headed inset, which frustratingly is smaller than a 3/8 socket adaptor... This is what is looks like: Does anyone know where to get the tool to unlock these? Cheers.

Hi Looking for some advise, so we have "your repair" but its £60 a time to get them out, I had asked them to come but due to some issues thats not happening yet but thats another story but based on below I think I can fix this my self as I changed the bathroom tap with little issue, hence...

We are in the process of installing a new kitchen, and we've hit a problem with the sink. Everything has been replaced, so it's new units & worktops with a 1.5 bowl ceramic top mount sink which has replaced a metal 1 bowl sink. We bought a new waste to fit the 1.5 bowl but when we fitted it...