Recent content by Ropes

Hi there! Popping over from the plumbing and gas forum for some advice on my own house, hopefully I can get some advice to help. I have a 13-year old house that weve recently bought and are renovating the downstairs. It's open plan, so we're laying the same flooring throughout. We have an...

Yeah, it's going to be for the kids really so it's not going to be just for show - I want it to be as solid as possible. I'll go for the stone. I'm not keen on having any border - I want to get as much usable area as possible for the kids to run around in. Are you saying put a timber frame in...

Hi all, I'm a regular in the gas man forum up the page a bit so though I'd pop in here for some quick advice as I'm going to give installing an artificial lawn a go. Our lawn is east facing, so doesn't get a lot of sun so has never really grown well, this is compounded by the fact it is...

It's worth checking out the poor pressure shower for blockages on the filters, outlet of the shower or a scaled up shower head. If it's easy to disconnect the shower, I'd isolate and disconnect it then let it run into the bath/shower. If it works fine then there's an issue with shower, and if...

In a Fortic there is a fairly small bore pipe that connects the cold water storage part of the tank to the hot water storage side which sounds to me like this might have a blockage of some sort. You can see where the pipe is as there's a bit of a bump in the insulation, so stick your hand in...

Thanks for your reply. The price seemed a little high in comparison to a Saniflo type system and for what you actually get in the kit considering the price of a barebones pump. Having spent a few hours looking around and noting other prices, £300-400 plus VAT seems bottom of the market...

Anybody got any recommendations for a wet room shower waste pump? Have been looking into the Whale pumps but the price seems a little steep, close to £350 plus VAT for the vinyl floor waste and extra flow switch. Any cheaper alternatives? The waste pipe nearby is actually above the tray so any...

Just working out a bathroom which I'll be doing all the tiling combined with some decent quality laminate flooring. Just looking for some opinions on what might be the best way to finish the edges? I'd like to the flooring first to the wall edge, leaving the 10mm gap, then tile down above onto...

Thanks guys. The flexible fitting is compression at both ends so don't think jubilee clips will work, i'll just get rid of it and go solvent weld. I'll check the non-return valve, always a possibility I guess!

Am going to look at a job tomorrow where they have a commercial washing machine connected to waste pump. Now, I've never looked at one before and this one has problems with the outlet side of the pump blowing off compression fittings. The outlet's 32mm to a non-return valve, then a 2m or so...

Evening all. I'm just pricing up my first Aga flue job and have a quick question regarding k-vent and b-vent. Now, including the flue above gutter height total external length will be somewhere between 4 and 4.5m. Now as you can only use b-vent type flue up to 3m externally, can you mix and...

I don't think it's a common design tbh, seems to just slide in below the pump held in by one screw. I'm just going to bite the bullet and order it. It's for a mate with a 4-month daughter so need to get things moving asap. I hate breakdowns. :)

I haven't got round to applying for the CC yet, I'll do it in a minute. The motor itself is a type of which I haven't seen before and couldn't actually see a pin to test. Coupled with the fact it's very difficult to get to due to the stupid Halstead boiler design and the boiler was full of...