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Some differences of opinion here :) I'm happy to pull it all out and replace. So I'm sure I understand correctly, it looks like the existing assembly is all attached via compression fittings and I can just unscrew, remove and replace as per the yellow markings, and then install the new assembly...

I'm trying to envisage what I'd actually need so that I'm not guessing and having to make multiple trips to and from Screwfix. If the trap is now going to be underneath the small basin, won't I need at least one 90-degree elbow and a length of straight pipe that I'd have to cut to length? Or is...

So you're saying that it really needs to be installed as a mirror image of the above? The main pipe to the trap coming off the small sink rather than the big one? With the trap being under the small sink, what should I be looking at to connect it to the pipe going through the wall? Some kind of...

For clarity, here's the existing setup:

Could you link me to a suitable part please?

Here's a video. The issue all seems to be on the vertical section coming off the small sink, which is fractionally too long. I've had it all apart and there's no scope to shorten anything. It feels like there ought to be an option for a single flexible coupling to go between the sink and the...

The is under our kitchen sink, the small sink next to the big one. The previous owner had connected the sink to the drain with the bits in the second photo, which are too long and force the drain pipe down at an angle and leave the rest of the waste pipes cocked and occasionally leaking. To my...

OK, will do. Just seems *too* comprehensively blocked for it to have happened unintentionally.

We've been living here for about 8 months and have no drainage issues that I'm aware of, but I've only just noticed that this drain underneath a rain gutter is completely and, apparently, deliberately blocked with soil and stones (grating removed by me). Presumably the idea is that rainwater...

Aha! I think this is what I want, as it's a bit lower-profile - I like the idea of the device cables plugging in vertically rather than sticking out horizontally. Cheers!

I need to install 3 Ethernet ports in a room where I can't chase into the wall, I have to screw to the wall. I can find plenty of 3-port front plates but they all seem intended for chasing, I can't seem to find any matching plastic back boxes for them. Is there anywhere that sells what I want...

That's kind of an answer to a different question, though. Are washing machine bearings special and unobtanium once the manufacturer stops selling spares for a given model, or are they just ordinary bearings that can be matched to something appropriate at a bearing supply shop?

We have a 10-year-old Bosch washing machine that has been very reliable, only needing replacement brushes about two years ago. I'm thinking about the bearings being the next thing to fail, and E-Spares have complete kits with the shaft seals for our model number machine for £84. How specialist...

Yep, that's it exactly - thanks :) I've actually built my own smoke machine and was looking for the compressor to actually blow the smoke. After experimentation I found a Halfords bike pump with buit-in PSI gauge actually worked pretty well - not completely silent in operation, but virtually...

I'm after a small portable compressor that allows you to set the pressure you want it to maintain (down to 2psi for finding vacuum leaks in emissions systems), and which will work silently (when it's not refilling the tank). What's the entry level price for something like that? I've been using a...

Sorry, it's not clear what your "dunno" actually refers to. Are you saying you don't know if those parts are even available in the UK? Or if they're called something different over here?

I'm looking for a closet/toilet flange with test cap and a 4" cleanout adapter with plug (it's to build a smoke machine). They seem to be cheaply and easily available in the USA, but over here, just looking online, I can only find the cleanout adapter for about £22 on Amazon, and only with a...

lf it does break, will any Screwfix-style isolation valve of the correct size work in there?

Downstairs toilet flush has broken, and looking at the water input pipe, there's this metal connector with the screw on the side. Is that screw the means of shutting off the water? The upstairs toilets have different, plastic shutoff valves. There's nothing else accessible; the rest of the...

The cold taps in our upstairs and downstairs bathrooms have seized up over about 5 years. 5 years ago, they were similarly seized, so we called a plumber and he fixed them in about 10 minutes - I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention, but all he seemed to do was pop the top cap off the tap...