Recent content by oldbuffer

1. If you have an Assured Shorthold contract with the tenant, these usually state blockages are the tenant's problem. 2. Otherwise, as Wayners above.

1. Broadly, as above. Foam washer between upper side of sink and underside of waste flange, black rubber washer below sink. 2. If it leaks: 2.1 Remove and discard foam washer. 2.2 Roll a "sausage" 6mm thick from Plumber's Mait. 2.3 Wrap sausage around underside of flange. 2.4 Screw waste...

1. If you are talking about connecting to the threaded tap shank there is enough flat surface for the connector seal to sit on. Should be fine. 2. Connect, turn on water, observe. No leak = fine.

1. You could use an old fashioned plug on a chain. You obviously need a plug which will fit the waste. It is unlikely that your bath will have a ring to secure the free end of the chain, so you might have to improvise by something like a rubber sucker stuck to the wall. 2. I'm surprised you...

Might well be olive crushed into pipe. If so will need: 1. The end of the pipe cutting off and an extension adding on. OR 2. If available, a pipe expander to bring the pipe back to 15mm along its length.

I'd be reluctant to reduce the diameter of an overflow pipe. It may be 1" to cope with the flow rate if the input is 22mm. Perhaps better to run a new overflow to outside.

This is one possibility. Can't tell for certain without make and model: 1. Tap. Unscrew the domed chrome ring near the front. Then unscrew the plain chrome ring behind it. The square chromed plate is probably stuck to the wall with silicone. Use a large sharp knife to cut through the...

1. Many of those vertical radiators are sensitive to which end is flow into the radiator and which is return out of the radiator. 2. This type generall have a baffle on the flow side which direct the water up the columns. Without this, water tends to flow straight across and not heat the...

1. A rubber "sucker" like the tip of a child's bow and arrow or the suction cup of a hook. (E.g. Wickes Clear 40mm suction hooks) 2. Thin layer of cold water and an ice cube. 3. If it is a "pop up" waste with an operating lever behind the taps, push the operating spindle up fron the underside...

1. What boiler(s) (type, power in kW) were the quotes including pipe size upgrades for? 2. 15mm will support a 12kW load over a distance of just under 12 metres. But note that: 2.1 This is theoretical and assumes there are no bends or joins in the pipework, which is most unlikely. 2.2 Each...

If you live in a hard water area, I wouldn't be bothered about the lead pipe from a health perspective.

I'd try to get a piece of something like thin electrical flex round the fitting inside the wall, just to give something to pull on should it disappear into the wall when the pipe comes free.

1. Looks like a JG Speedfit coupler / elbow. 2. I can't tell from the photograph, but sometimes there is a collar between the fitting and the white ring, to stop it being accidentally pushed in. If there is such a ring, remove it. 3. Push the white ring towards the body of the fitting, and...

Hard to tell from the photos. Likely to be a push in stud with red and blue indexes. If so, should prise out.

"the original pipes ...." meaning the pipes already in place.