Recent content by randomrob69

nice one redherring thanks for the information, most of the bricks are sandstone and theres a mix of all sorts of mortor on the wall. i've heard that a cement based mortor retains water?

just wondered if you knew what the best mix for external mortor was as there are quite a few gaps in the external wall between the bricks. thanks

disregard the last message as i think you have already answered it. As for the joists. I'm no expert but i'm sure they should be attached somhow to the wall, at the moment they are just resting on the dpc level, they are not touching the external wall and seem to be held in place by the...

Thanks for the advise, i guess i will lower the external ground level and replaster the internal wall and see if that helps. I just wondered about 2 more things concerning the internal wall. a) Do you know what would be the best mix of plaster to go on the internal wall? b) Is there...

Sorry to take so long at getting back to you but have been pretty busy, i hope this information usefull. The wall measures just over 40cm in depth, it looks as though its a cavity wall but i'm not 100 percent certain. The level of the external floor is about the same as the level of the...

Hi, i'm just after a bit of advise about my external wall which does not have any dpc. My house is an end of terrace built in the early 1900ish, the builders ran out of money when building the terrace leaving the external wall with no dpc as there was supposed to be another house built...

I am replacing my old external water mains pipe with 25mm mdpe and was just after a bit of advice on fitting a new stop tap. I have 15mm speedfit pipe (white) internally and wondered what stop tap you recommend to fit between the two. I guess i will need to put inserts into both pipes that are...

Thanks for the quick reply...I was thinking about putting in a new close coupled wc and dont mind building a support at the back... I was wondering if you know how deep the pan connector might go ( just so i know roughly how much concrete i need to chip away. If i do break the existing...

Just wondered if anyone can give me some advise on replacing my old wc, it has a waste pipe going into solid ground. The existing pipe is quite old and i want to replace as much of that as possible with new pipe. 1. Is it worth knocking out some of the cement and cutting the pipe below the...

Hi just wondered what you guys thought the best way to attach a normal non-folding showerscreen to a plasterboard wall covered in tiles? I don't want to take any of the tiles of the wall, any advice will be gratefully received. rob

hi just wondered if you can help me out. My friend who is a fully qualified sparky owes me a large favour and is going to rewire my house for me, the problem i have is that because he works for a national firm he cannot provide any paperwork for the work. What would be the best way for me...

Hi guys Just wondered what the general opinion was on installing an s trap wc with a 90 degree pan connector with the 110 waste pipe travelling under the floor for about 3m? rather than getting a p trap as i don't have the space. cheers rob

Thanks for the quick replies everyone, I've not spoken with the bco's yet as i am hoping to get everything planned out beforehand just to make sure its worth going ahead with. The existing external soil stack is ventilated . All the bends on the waste pipe will be accessible so will have...

hi just wondered if anyone knows if i will need to fit an aav onto my new toilet installation, I will be installing a new wc in a room that does not have an external wall, the length of 110mm pipe will be, 2.5m with 90degree turn, 1m with 90degree turn, 1.2m with 135 degree turn then .8m to...

hello just wondered if anyone might be able to share any advice, i'm going to install a 110 mm soil pipe to connect to the main soil stack, When the pipe comes out of the wall it will have to follow the underside of the ceiling which is 79in long with a drop of 26in then it will have...