Recent content by dannynolan

As a follow-up, ordered a new Reginox Elbe, arrived with the hot tap lever sheared off. Sent it back, ordered from a different supplier. Also arrived with the hot tap lever sheared off. Both were the newer model with thinner, smaller levers. May have been a false economy for them. Not sure...

Is it easy enough to do? Reasonable plumbing experience here. Edit. Both the cartridge splines and the lever the splines locked with looked worn. A new cartridge at a tenner, and/or a pair of levers at gulp £34 vs a new tap at £65 delivered. New tap the no-brainer.

The hot lever when turned off goes back further than it should, and with more pressure goes even further back, to the horizontal. I took off the H cap on the end and tightened the screw but it didn't help. Would the Elbe QA-CR listed below solve the problem? Thanks in advance. Edit. I...

Don't know how the joint was made. The pipework it goes into was replaced about fifteen or so years ago. Thanks for your opinion on the roots, we feel the same, despite Dynorob! being 90% certain that was the issue.

We're trying to avoid taking the pan out but if needs must. Our rods have a 10cm rubber plunger on the end, but we would buy a pigs tail/ worm screw attachment. And thanks for all the other suggestions, we'll look into it all over the weekend.

Again thanks for your reply. Barring a pipe collapse, the blockage is almost certainly just toilet paper, nothing else goes down it. We agree with you that we have to approach it from the toilet end. And you're right, that is the inspection chamber in the bottom rh corner of toilet 1. re the...

Thanks for the reply, we don't use rim blocks, our plumber told us the pipe run is shallow so we are careful, though we do have guests. I used a six foot toilet snake and found nothing so the blockage is beyond the u-bend, but you're suggesting the blockage is inside the house so to speak.

I've added two pictures showing the pipe layout, this work was done twelve years ago because of tree root ingression through a break in the pipe due to an old bodge job. Due to space restrictions they couldn't install an inspection point between the downstairs toilet and where it connects to...

Many thanks for that, much appreciated, we are out today. We had the pipes replaced 12 years ago and will post pictures of the exact layout this evening. Many thanks for that, much appreciated, we are out today. We had the pipes replaced 12 years ago and will post pictures of the exact layout...

Many thanks for that, much appreciated, we are out today. We had the pipes replaced 12 years ago, and will post pictures of the exact layout this evening.

Many thanks for that, will investigate tomorrow.

Thankyou for your reply, that's what we thought re, that's what we thought re the volume of water in the pipe. Our downstairs loo waste pipe also goes under a concrete floor (kitchen in our case) so could be a similar problem. Camera inspection probably the next step then, Thanks again.

He was only here for five minutes and didn't charge, but thinks he might be getting a hundred for the camera, for starters! Just seemed to be too quick to try and 'upsell' us to hundreds of quid for the root-cutting.

Thanks for the reply, neither.

We have two toilets one upstairs, one downstairs. The downstairs toilet connects to the sewer a few feet further away from the manhole than the stack from the upstairs toilet. The upstairs toilet works fine, and when flushed we can see a good flow through the manhole. The downstairs toilet...