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Many thanks. My first thought was indeed to isolate them as you do with wall tiles, but being perhaps more robust then I thought maybe there was a different technique. Can't do anything now till Friday, but I'll be sure to get togged up with safety gear before I tackle the job. I don't know...

Thanks for that. I've more or less decided now that I'll renew the fitting, then long term I should be able to rely on the joint remaining dry. But I'll make sure there's access in the floor for maintenance purposes.

Further help needed, folks. I've noticed that the boiler pressure is dropping slowly, so naturally suspected that the underfloor joint about which I've been fussing has indeed started leaking. So I got my endoscope, shoved it through a tiny hole that I've made in the floor and left it in situ...

We live in Conwy, and Welsh Water are currently fitting compulsory smart meters for all consumers. We already have an indoor meter in a cupboard in the bathroom, but when the chap came to change it, it turned out that the smart meter is much bulkier than the old one. Because of that size...

Ooh. Reckon I’d better go rootin’ in my toolbox. Might have something valuable to leave the kids after all!

Not seen one for quite some time, which I suppose is why I described this one as "old". Mind you, probably still got one or two underneath the dust in the bottom of my tool box.

Thanks for that. The troublesome lateral movement is something to do with reaching over for the toilet paper, or so I'm told.

I had one of those Titan thingies and they really are very good, especially for the price. You can indeed batter Hell out of them and they just keep going, as long as you give the machine a good clean after use.

For many years, we had the standard fitting of the round, adjustable hinge on top with the threaded bolt and plastic/ rubber washers underneath and that worked pretty well. I bought a new seat from B and Q a few months ago, and they now supply them with a bolt through a metal washer on top, and...

Not actually an “old” one, as it turns out. Conex make them, with ridges on the nut faces. https://www.toolstation.com/conex-301-compression-straight-coupler/p46615

I’ll see if I can find one online..

That obviously never occurred to the chap who fitted this one, then added a tiled floor over the top of it. I’ll make sure that the new floor allows better access.

Admittedly I’m no plumber, but I haven’t seen one of those for a while. All my recent encounters with compression fittings have been of the “flat faced” variety.

Well, I drilled a hole in the floor ( we're replacing it later this year) and got my endoscope down there. The good news is that there's no plastic--its one of those old fashioned knurled connectors in brass, with 10mm copper into one end and 15mm chrome tails out of the other. No sign of any...

We bought this bungalow in May 2022. Since then I've painstakingly worked my way through it, correcting the bodges of the previous owner where possible within the limitations of my DIY ability and where those abilities fell short, employing tradesmen. It was a rental property before we bought...

If it is “chrome into pushfit”, I’ll change the fitting for metal compression. I’ve got one of those endoscope thingies, so I’ll enlarge the pipe hole in the floor, poke the endo down there and see what turns up.

Thanks for that. No idea what fittings have been used under the bathroom floor, but I’ll monitor for pressure drop and if needs be, I’ll expose the pipes.

Afternoon all I had occasion to swap a heated towel rail in our bathroom today. Straight replacement of an old version, using the same pipework. Had great difficulty releasing the compression nut underneath one of the chrome valves and whilst doing so, the vertical chrome pipe turned about 90...

In both the instances where I’ve drilled UPVC soffits, the plastic has been fitted snugly against the original wooden section, so I don’t think you’ll need any kind of extension. From memory the plastic vents fit snugly into a 70mm hole.

In both the situations where I fitted soffit vents, the UPVC soffits were fitted directly over the old wooden ones. So there was a good solid surface for me to drill into. I’d imagine that if it was UPVC soffits only there might be some vibration, but drilled with care, no problem.