Recent content by Coldness8388

The garage is an internal garage with kitchen at the back where stack is adjacent to, hallway along the long side and neighbours garage the other side. I assume neighbours waste drains to the back of the garden and then joins the main sewer as shown in water company drawings. I wouldn’t have...

Could well be. Either way I’m quite confident the middle channel is the problem one. I’ve managed to get the rods down this evening until I met some firm resistance where I assume is where the pipe changes direction the other end to meet the soil stack. Couldn’t feel much of a blockage and...

Confirmed that all upstairs outlets run through said soil stack out to the middle channel in the chamber. I see flow when flushing WC and running sinks and baths. Could it still be partially blocked? Or more likely to be failure or a seal? Off to get some rods this afternoon to see if I can...

Couldn’t resist having a look this evening. So this is the easiest chamber to access. The left hand channel connects to the downstairs WC and the middle channel is connected to the 1st floor WC and presumably the bath and where the soil stack in the garage is draining to. I haven’t worked out...

Presumably there should be an inspection point on this stack somewhere where I may be able to use rods or a snake thing. Bloody developer encased the whole thing in plasterboard so looks like that’s going to have to go regardless.

Thanks for the suggestions. Bath may not necessarily be the lowest connection. I do have a downstairs loo which has its own separate stack which presumably connects to the sewer up or downstream of the main stack in the garage or could it travel under the floor and tee in to the main stack. The...

I noticed a damp patch in my garage today. I don’t think it’s been there very long but can’t say how long. On further inspection, the floor is very damp around the base of the soil stack that disappears into the floor presumably to couple up with the sewer feed under the garage. Pipe itself is...

I live in Blaenau Gwent, South Wales

Thanks for your help this afternoon. I’ll try and track down someone who sells it and buy a small length to begin with to try it. My gasket is very compressed but don’t rule out the door having warped. I’ve been looking at friends and family’s doors over the last week and they are of a similar...

Many thanks. Would you be able to recommend an alternative product that is more widely available. My concern is if I replace the gasket with like for like the door still won’t seal very well. Based in South Wales here

This is the code printed on the threshold and gasket

Hi all. I’m after some advice regarding my door gasket for my front composite door. My hall is quite cold in winter and through use of a thermal imaging camera it seems my front door not closing correctly is partly to blame. The door doesn’t close against the gasket firmly and there is quite a...

ok so kitchen space should be 7000 to 7500 btu because of the French doors and hallway should be 2500, radiators I have seen to match those requirements but they have a lot of difficult heating the space as mentioned. Lucky for the hallway to increase by maybe 2 degrees in a few hours

It’s a good question, could possibly benefit with something a bit larger but haven’t calculated what size radiator for each space. The heat drop when the heating goes off is very poor however, managed to heat the hall to 17 this morning but dropped to 14 within an hour or so

Many thanks for the advice. It is practical to insulate the garage and have done some research already. Is 50mm sufficient or should would 75mm or 100mm be much better? Should I attach with adhesive foam? Not much I can do about the front wall and outside wall unless I buy a big thermal curtain...