Recent content by jcalow

Yes, I always try to heat evenly all around the pipe. Still the pipe seems to bind and will not move any further. The pipe must get hot enough as I have had nearby joints come loose instead to the fitting I want to remove. I always deburr and clean inside and out of joints so the problem cannot...

Been doing a bit of plumbing work lately and have come across a reoccuring problem three times. A few times I have soldered an incorrect fitting to a run of copper pipe. I try to remove the fitting by reheating, the solder melts and I pull on the fitting but the fitting jams and will not budge...

Just completed my first ever soldering plumbing job and pretty pleased with the result. However, I am getting a little paranoid about if I have deburred the pipes correctly or not. I used a deburring tool as pictured below and counted 8 revolutions on each end of each pipe, I think I may have...

Many thanks for the advise. I will do just that. I assume any gap of around 15mm at the edge is nothing to worry about then? It is as close as I can drill a batten to the wall.

Got a bit of a Christmas diy project going. Building out a wall with 3 inch battens and will fit with 12mm plasterboard. Wall will be partly tiled and have a small sink. Is the batten spacing ok? I am worried about the edges. Will the plasterboard be week at the sides and top and bottom. The...

I need to fix some 3x2" battening to a solid wall (3 inch protruding from the wall). I was planning to use 8x120 frame fixings and reckon that this would give me around 46-50mm in the wall after countersinking. Is this satisfactory? Or should I go as deep as 10x135? Also if the 120 depth is ok...

I have a solid block wall 900mm in width with a sink on it and all pipes are revealed. I am doing up the room and would like to conceal these pipes. I was planning to build out the wall by 3 inches, which will cover all excisting pipwork. My plan for doing this was to use 3.5" by 1.5" studwork...

We have an existing gas stove with a balanced flue through the wall. We would like to upgrade this to a log burning stove with a piped flue. My question is how high would this piped flue approximately need to be? I have looked at building regs documentation, but found this confusing. Anyone have...