Recent content by TheBigMatt

Hi, The Bell of the pipe sits on the floorboards, so just the 3 inch "collar" is visible. Just to make it clear, this pipe is a "branch" that runs under the floorboards about 2.5 feet to join the Main Vertical Cast Iron Soil pipe that runs floor to ceiling through the whole house. matt

Hi All, I am replacing a toilet. I have a cast Iron Waste Pipe coming up out of the floor. It currently has a plastic "P" connector in it ( i think it is call a kwik fit??) for the toilet. In the "well" of the Cast Iron pipe around the connector, it had been filled in with Sand/Cement mix...

Well Boys....... :oops: It seems that if you replace the immersion heater in a 38 year old tank, it can develop a leak. Not from around the immersion heater itself (thats all sealed up like a goodun) but from somehwere where the flange joins the tank itself. I guess from the stress of...

hi guys, enlighten me....i'm just a bloke with a spanner. Why shouldn't i replace an immersion in an old cylinder?? is it that i might damage an old hardened thread or something? Also, any advice on what to replace it with...are there good cylinders and bad ones?? The existing cylinder...

Hi Guys, Need some advice. My Mother lives in an all electric house and gets Hot Water via an immersion heater (on a timer/cheap overnight electricity). She called me today 'cause she had no hot water. Over i go, check all the fuses/switches etc. Check water flow...all ok. I said "it...

Thanks Gcol, i am sure the plasterer will know what he's doing, but it's good to know what to ask for. cheers Matt

Hi Fellas, I have removed tiles (and half the wall...) in my bathroom. I am going to get is plastered before having it re-tiled. 1. should i only get it "bond" plastered or do i need a finish coat?? 2. i have seen some people recommending that walls around baths and showers are "tanked"...

Thanks Fluffster.........

Hi All, I have been gutting my bathroom and stripped some OLD wall tiles. Needless to say, these pulled the plaster of the walls very nicely....... Around the window reveal, the top and base coat of plaster (maybe even cement render??) came off, right down to the brickwork. Lo and...

Hi Softus, Thanks for your patience. Let me start again, I have a regular CH system driven by a combi boiler. As i understand it, there are pumped flow & return circuits from/to the boiler,each radiator is connected once to the flow circuit (rad valve) and once to the return circuit...

Hi All, Firstly, let me apologise if my inaccurate posting/description had caused any of you to take up cudgels with each other. Secondly, i am really grateful for all the replies. SOFTUS..thanks for your idea about connecting in parallel However, if i do connect in parallel, will i...

Hi Meldrews Mate, Yes, exactly. I want to run the NEW rad in Series (wished i could have remembered that word....explains things a lot better) BEFORE the Towel Rad. I was expecting the Towel Rad to be cooler (saves my backside getting blisters..LOL). In fact the two Emitters will be on...

Sorry Guys, Didn't explain myself. System was originally (30 years ago) a conventional boiler/tank. Boiler was replaced with a combi (combi is upstairs if it makes a difference...). The bathroom radiator used to run on the Hot water circuit years ago (hence the Pipe Runs), It was replaced...

Hi All, i have a Towel Rad in my bathroom. Flow comes down from the ceiling and the Return goes under the floor. I want to add a small radiator (tall and thin), for various reasons i would like to avoid lifting carpets/floorboards etc. If i were to feed this new rad "inline" with the towel...

Hi WonderBoy, Thanks for the Links, the Dudley link explains a lot. Softus, Thanks for confirming what i thought. The siphons i am talking about are advertised as "internal overflow" but look just like a "normal" one. A "normal" siphon looks like it would trap air at the top and...