Recent content by Dave064

Our son's 1980's flat has no heating, looks like the previous owner (landlord) took out the heating panels. There are still CB's for them. He owns the flat but had no heating last year, apart from oil filled rads on timers but they didn't work well. Just put massive amounts of roof...

Muggles...guy who laid the bathroom floor tiles didn't finish off behind the sink so when I cut the pipes to the taps to fit a a couple of in-line shut off valves, water leaked down the pipes, despite my well placed oily rag, and onto the ceiling below. :(

Sorry guys your are correct...wrong forum. Thanks for the advice I'll try some of your ideas. Subject closed...Cheers Dave

We have a tiny bit of water damage, not even a stain, to our ceiling. This has caused the paper at a join to droop for about 4". Can I simply squeeze paper glue into the drrop and stick back up? Is thier likley to be bare plaster board directly under the paper (which may stop the paper glue...

Thanks guys..food for thought much appreciated. dave

My first post in the electrics section..hope I don't get too flamed! I,m a competent DIYer, my wife tells me so, and am comfortable around electrics, the routing and connection of cables etc. I am how ever aware of rules now i place that electrical work carried out in the home is supposed to...

I won't ask! If I want to prep the bathroom a few days before is there a cap I can fit over the waste pipe or will a strong poly bag taped over the end suffice? Thanks Dave

You can choose between solvent-weld and push-fit ring-seal. If the pipe is going to be concealed then I'd go for solvent-weld. Softus good advice Cheers dave

Could you replace the existing piece with a longer length ? Mike I would if the vertical pipe was more accessible and I'm assumming that the horizontal pipe is 'welded' into the vertical anyway. Many thanks for the screwfix link. Rgds Dave

We are in the process of a bathroom revamp and want to move the toilet some 700mm. The vertical stack is not really accessible so can we extend the horizontal waste pipe? we can keep the drop ok without having to raise the loo! but can waste pipes simple be joined together? If so what should we...

We had a similar situation in a new house and the problem was the temp knob was fitted 90 degrees out. Can you pull the temp know off and move the spindle to the full cold position and then refit the knob? This was the problem with our Trition shower..just a thought. D