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    Change direction of kitchen sink waste connection.

    I tried the hair dryer first before bringing out the hot air gun, or should I say I borrowed my wife's hairdryer!
    Post by: Sonic70, 6 Mar 2021 at 5:11 PM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Change direction of kitchen sink waste connection.

    I just used the heat gun on some scrap solvent weld swept bend with some pipe attached and it just melted the pipe and bend.
    Post by: Sonic70, 6 Mar 2021 at 3:18 PM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Hot water issues

    Maybe take it off and put a piece of copper pipe in between if you haven't got the old one.
    Post by: Sonic70, 6 Mar 2021 at 10:53 AM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Change direction of kitchen sink waste connection.

    I've got some scrap solvent weld joints from my bathroom refurb last summer, i will see if i can get them apart safely tomorrow and let you know.
    Post by: Sonic70, 6 Mar 2021 at 12:05 AM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Change direction of kitchen sink waste connection.

    My mistake, looks like its going into left wall until you zoom in.
    Post by: Sonic70, 6 Mar 2021 at 12:02 AM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Change direction of kitchen sink waste connection.

    The condensate pipe is surely wrong going uphill which makes it a trap.
    Post by: Sonic70, 5 Mar 2021 at 11:02 PM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Bad repair experience

    Thanks gasguru for answering my baxi 800 question.
    Post by: Sonic70, 5 Mar 2021 at 11:11 AM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Hot water issues

    If the image shows what was on their originally what did you replace it with?
    Post by: Sonic70, 5 Mar 2021 at 10:29 AM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Bad repair experience

    Andrew have baxi put that part in the rest of the 800 range. Victor
    Post by: Sonic70, 4 Mar 2021 at 8:01 PM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Noisy pipes

    Could the first image be darker because it was burnt with a blow torch? So could also be recent cut.
    Post by: Sonic70, 4 Mar 2021 at 5:17 PM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Noisy pipes

    Can I just add that there is wiring under that floor i can see in the third image going close to and underneath all that pipework on the left...
    Post by: Sonic70, 4 Mar 2021 at 4:56 PM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Hot water issues

    That's a magnetic scale inhibitor. The gas engineers here will probably want to know what boiler you have to diagnose the problem.
    Post by: Sonic70, 4 Mar 2021 at 12:07 AM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Plastic Roof Vent Tile

    I think it might be klobber, it certainly looks like one of theirs I saw online
    Post by: Sonic70, 3 Mar 2021 at 4:39 PM in forum: Roofing and Guttering
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    Bathroom drainage problem

    Do you have a picture of pipework under bath?
    Post by: Sonic70, 3 Mar 2021 at 11:38 AM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating
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    Bathroom drainage problem

    I saw a guy in USA on YouTube who put a rag in a pipe and a rat had pulled the rag further into the pipe and chewed it up, he only realised when...
    Post by: Sonic70, 3 Mar 2021 at 11:36 AM in forum: Plumbing and Central Heating