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I will be purchasing a toilet shortly and am concerned of the screwing of the pan to the floorboards. Here is the old screws from the toilet I removed: It does seem rather large? Is this absolutely necessay? Aren’t floorboards around 15 mm thick, so why need a 80 mm screw? I've looked at my...

This is the soil pipe. It's quite thick, I'd say about 3mm. This soil pipe is also rock hard. I think it would be difficult to cut. This a close up of the thickness of the soil pipe. Anyone know what material this is?

Thanks for these ideas. The "space saving" pan connector could not be inserted past the halfway point of the soil pipe due to its bend, meaning it would stickout more from the soil pipe inlet. This would result in the toilet having to be moved a few centimetres to the left which would look...

I need to replace one of my toilets (downstairs WC). Please see pic below. I am fast realising a big challenge is my toilet is an older one (1998) where the soil pipe inlet is set further away from the wall (19.5 cm) compared to modern ones. The horizontal pan connector (17cm from wall) is...

I am encountering this issue as well. I require to replace the pan (bowl) and would rather not replace a perfectly working cistern. To be clear; even if I am required to buy a complete set (pan and cistern), I would still want to just replace the pan. The answer to @flameport question is it...

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After the freeze about three weeks ago, (Mid-december) I have noticed there is green/blue powder in the water that comes out my taps that are fed from the cold water storage in the loft, ie bath, sink, shower. This water tank did freeze over and no water came out those taps for 3 days. The...

The Russell Hobbs oil radiator just clinked as much as the Delonghi one, so that's been returned. How about mica heaters? They have no moving parts, just electricity passed through this 'mica' compound. Anyone know anything about them?

Does the size of the oil-filled radiator affect how much noise it makes during the clinking of expansion and contraction?

Fan heaters, I remember these noisy things in my student days. They were cheap and kept me warm alright. Today when buying a heater, I am paying for its silence too as well as its heat. I ordered a Russel Hobbs oil radiator that has just the fins - no cladding. I'll report back how it 'sounds'.

The Delonghi Dragon is the precise model I have and you have described it well. I am returning it and replacing with an oil radiator that has no external metal cladding. You'd think Delonghi would know better. I found that the higher the thermostat was set at, the louder the clinking sound...

I require a heater that makes almost no noise. I have recently tried an oil radiator. Yes, they are mostly quiet during operation but when they are cooling down (in-between thermostat switching on/off), during expansion and contraction of metal, they can produce 60-75db of noise in a sudden...

Yeah, it's a timber joist that's seen in the photo. Conny, your idea sounds good but I'm having a lot of difficulty visualising it.

I'd like to patch up this hole in my ceiling, where a mains powered smoke alarm used to be. Advice please?

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Obviously I'm missing something really obvious here. How can you 'move' a pipe? Do you mean re-route it from the source?

To where? And, when you say 'move', I presume you mean 'extend'?

We've had some heavy rain over the past week and not a peep of water ingression to the concerned ceiling has occurred. I can therefore say with a degree a confidence that the roof was never the problem and that the water ingression has come from the two water exhaust pipes, that have been...

I had another roofer out last week to take a look. He spent quite a bit of time looking at the roof. He came to the conclusion that the roof was unlikely to be causing the ingress and that the problem was likely coming from elsewhere. A couple of days later, I looked at my neighbour's house...

I knew it looked way too good to be a simple and cheap install.