Recent content by mderoy

That explains why there’s no smell in the loft. However, ever since the house was built. I’ve always had issues when there’s very heavy rain. During heavy rainfall to the point where the roads are flooded and the drains can’t cope, I get gurgling noises from the bath drain, and the toilet water...

So I finally managed to get into that crawl space on the corner of the loft and took a closeup photo of what I have. I’ve attached the photo. The roof vent bit is 100% open with nothing connecting to it. And the end of the vertical soil pipe has some sort of cap on it but doesn’t look like an...

I had to recently shut off the main stopcock under my kitchen sink to do a few bits of work. When I turned the stopcock off it was wasn’t fully open I don’t think. So when I’ve reopened it after doing my work, how much should I open it to? I’ve done a few turns and pressure in taps seem good...

In the attached photo you see the nut that I’ve circled which connects the radiator end to the actual adjustable valve. What is the thread size usually for the male end for that nut to go and tighten to? I believe it has a rubber washer on it too. Reason I ask is I want to get a matching size...

Update: Sorry just realised this is in the wrong section. Can someone kindly delete or move it to plumbing? Thanks I’m going to be doing a little bit of plumbing to move taps and mixers around and I’ve read a lot of places that the preferred method is to ideally bend pipes and not use solder...

Looking to get the following 1/2” bsp female fitting and ideally want to solder a 15mm copper straight to the fitting. Can anyone confirm that this fitting is actually for soldering a 15mm pipe? Here is the link...

Ok that makes sense so the bigger the tiles the bigger the trowel notch size? So for 120x60 you think 10mm notches maybe?

I’ve always just used whatever notched trowel I had in the past but I want to do things right and I am going to be installing 120cm x 60cm porcelain tiles on walls and floors. It’s approximately 9/10mm thick. I currently have a 6mm notched trowel but is this too small? For bigger tiles should...

Yes it was super tight I had to spray silicone spray on it then it slid in with a bit of encouragement. Without the spray it felt too stiff and felt like it may damage the rubber

Was thinking this but since I have a lot of the connectors as socket connectors already and want to use them that’s why I’d prefer to stick with the solvent. The end bit where the pan will connect and reduce from 90 to 110 will all be push fit. The issue I was having with that black reducer is...

So it wont be a smaller diameter and end up being loose when I try and put it onto a solvent coupler or connector?

So I picked up the 110mm coupler from screwfix where one side is 110mm push fit and the other side is 110mm solvent. But the solvent side is designed for a 110mm solvent pipe just like the grey Tee that I have. So I now need to put a small piece a 110mm pipe to join the screwfix black coupler...

Yea the grey Tee is from one online store. And the black reducer is from another. When I use a gauge to measure the diameter of the opening on the grey Tee it’s exactly 110mm and when I measure the black reducer on the 110mm end it measures at approximately 108/109mm

I’ll pop into my local screwfix shortly and take the fittings with me to see if the following works with it: https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-push-fit-solvent-weld-single-socket-pipe-coupler-black-110mm/62966 If it does then I’ll buy that and problem solved I think. Thanks so much for all...

If it is push fit, instead of trying to find a 90mm push fit to 110mm solvent do you think it’s just easier to get a 110mm push fit to 110mm solvent? That way this black one can work?