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    Basin bottle trap leaking at join to waste

    Thanks for the swift reply Andy. The top of the pipe for the bottle trap has a small flat lip that the washer sits on. I think the problem is the bottom of the waste which has no lip and is very narrow. The water was coming down the thread until we put a basin mate at the top and reseated...
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    Basin bottle trap leaking at join to waste

    Thanks for the top advice on stopping the leak from within the basin and around the waste. Now we've a new problem! Where the square chrome bottle trap meets and connects to the bottom of the slotted waste, the two pipes butt together with a flat rubber washer between them. A nut then...
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    Monobloc will not tighten

    Thanks Kev but isn't that going to raise the tap even further from the basin top and make the gap bigger? Don't know if you've had chance to follow the link but the image on the right hand side is the tap and it has a square plate that goes between the tap and the basin. The square plate is...
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    Monobloc will not tighten

    Thanks to everyone who has offered help and advice so far :) We've bought a Crosswater Hey Joe! Basin Monobloc (http://www.crosswater.co.uk/productsingle.asp?BrandID=19). We have a Twyfords Pure basin with a 35mm tap hole. The tap has narrow metal threaded rod which goes into the base...
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    Overflow into soil pipe - how to stop smell?

    Thanks for all the helpful responses. We have fitted a HEP VO waste valve beneath the bath (the previous bath had a hole dug out in the concrete floor to make room for the trap) and it's on the other side of the room now so we can't connect there. The toilet has an internal overflow and...
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    Overflow into soil pipe - how to stop smell?

    Thanks for the offer but I'm in Leamington Spa. :D Does this stop the smell or just allow you to see if it's overflowing? I have pipe running through the airing cupboard that is vertical so could replace a section of that possibly?
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    Overflow into soil pipe - how to stop smell?

    Thanks for the quick reply. We keep a check on the water level in the tank on a monthly basis (as we live above somebody else) and in fact as it only feeds the immersion you can hear it filling whenever the hot water is used so we'd know if it was overflowing (I think). We've fittted a new...
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    Overflow into soil pipe - how to stop smell?

    We live in a flat and have a combined immersion/cold tank. The immersion section is at the bottom and has a small cold tank on the top. Coming out of the cold tank is an overflow pipe right at the top. This used to connect into the bath waste when the bath was on the other side of the wall...
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    Connected new cistern, button makes mooing noise, no water

    Thanks for the assistance :D It was jammed so I suppose I should have put a bucket underneath it before I launched 6l of cold water onto my bathroom floor! I've now managed to reconnect the toilet to both the soil pipe and the cistern but there's water leaking from somewhere. Too late...
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    Connected new cistern, button makes mooing noise, no water

    We've just pulled the pan out and out came a load of water on the floor so it must have been released but not come through the pipe for some reason. I'm afraid I don't know how to lift the flush valve from above nor how to close the inlet valve :oops: The blue air pipe was connected at...
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    Connected new cistern, button makes mooing noise, no water

    Hello Hope somebody can offer some urgent advice! We have finally connected up our Grohe Eau 2 cistern today after biting the bullet and cutting down the pipes to make it flush to the false wall which contains the cistern itself. Foolishly I pressed the air button in before any water...
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    Help hanging 700 wide wall-hung basin

    Hope that somebody can help me (again!) :) We've bought a Twyfords Pure Energy basin (a badged Keramag 50 by Antonio Citterio). The basin is intended to be wall hung and has an integral chrome towel rail (not shown on this picture): The basin is 700mm wide and has 430mm screw hole...
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    Cutting flush pipe on Grohe Eau 2 concealed cistern

    Thanks again Seco Services. It's harden to imagine why Grohe would have such conflicting information on their website, nor why they would think anybody would want a false wall or piece of furniture 42cm deep behind their toilet! We're battling with a small space, a separate shower cubicle...
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    Cutting flush pipe on Grohe Eau 2 concealed cistern

    Thanks for that Seco Services. Did you find that image on the web or is it something you have done? The Grohe Eau 2 has a short fixed pipe coming down and then Grohe supplies a horizontal pipe to connect to the loo. Do you know how short the horizontal pipe is on that installation...
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    Cutting flush pipe on Grohe Eau 2 concealed cistern

    Hello Thank you to everybody who has read and helped with my previous post on replacing our toilet. I now have an issue with the Grohe Eau 2 concealed cistern. Having posted yesterday that it needs 420mm from the wall to the back of the BTW WC we measured that out today and the toilet...
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