Recent content by ladwey

Yup, got it out ok. The pipe's a peculiar dimension -- 110 across, 130 down, which I guess is because it's cut at an angle. The 4" extension connector ought to do it.

Thanks! So cut out the old connector, and the new one should fit in ok without all the sealant?

Hi -- I'm replacing a manky old toilet and the new one has a pan waste which is slightly lower -- bit less than 10mm, by my estimate. There's an old cast iron pipe that comes in through the wall; whoever installed it put an offset connector in to raise it up to the level of the old toilet. It...

Just saw someone on another forum suggest dot and dabbing tile adhesive to the back in the void sections and then drilling through with mechanical fixings when dry. I'll be using tile adhesive on the boards anyway to fix them to the walls, so that would cut out a step and so be a lot faster, is...

Love it, thanks mate

I think I posted this in the wrong forum initially, sorry! I need to put some wedi boards on the wall for tiling. When the old tiles came off they left a recess behind them -- there's old plaster, then two feet of bare concrete blocks that the tiles were stuck to, then old plaster again below...

I need to put some wedi boards on the wall for tiling. When the old tiles came off they left a recess behind them -- there's old plaster, then two feet of bare concrete blocks that the tiles were stuck to, then old plaster again below where they were. The gap's a centimeter or two, larger in...

Fair enough! Got really rattled when my first try at attaching it failed. Simplest answer is I didn't tighten it properly -- I was just casting about for other reasons cos I'm desperate for it not to fail again.

It's still holding ... Here's a picture of another offcut. As you can see it's pretty thick and sort of wedge-shaped.. The other one had a more pronounced wedge and completely flat back end.

I'm not taking it out again!! But I'll have a look in the morning and see if any of the other parts have one on. Some of the others fell apart when I took them out, but the one I reused cleaned up to nice bright copper.

Whatever it was had held for who knows how many decades before I got to it, so I hope it will still be sturdy now it's back in.

Just read this and it doesn't sound like what I was dealing with though ... It was an ordinary section of half inch pipe, no flared end, just a sort of pyramidal olive. I just assumed that was what olives used to look like back in the day.

Yes it's an odd shape -- comes down to a point at one end, broader than a normal olive at the other. If you took a cross section it would be triangular. I'd never seen one before!

Actually that was why I went back to reuse the section of old pipe -- the olive on it was absolutely rock solidly attached when I took it out of the fitting. That was what made me think it was a better bet to go back in. So that's a good sign anyway. Thanks for all your help here mate, I really...

Might have been under-tightened, it was hard to reach. I thought I was really cranking on it! Always a tightrope when you're also trying not to over-tighten.