Recent content by Patrick Denom

The blockage is near the soil stack where the red x is The bit where the block is 40 years of calcium deposits- seems rock hard - I removed the mcalpine connector and tried with a rotary drain auger to break through it - no success - too much resistance- I’m in Surrey - a very hard water area...

My plumbing skills are very basic I can cut copper pipe and I can use compression fittings. I've never soldered I have a minor leak , one drop every minute. No panic. See the picture. It's leaking at the copper joint, the solder joint wasn't good enough I want to cut the copper pipe and...

Hi I'm trying to make sense of the hot water system in my new (second hand) apartment. It's not like anything I've seen before. I know it's unvented, and the hot water comes out at mains pressure Question 1: there are 2 mains boxes (heating elements) powered by different plugs - one...