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Got a new Armitage Shanks Sandringham bath, an Aquis wooden bath panel, and I need to build a shelf the width of the bath and about 100mm deep at the end of the bath. I then need to tile the shelf and fit the panel. No instructions with the panel, and the bath says refer to panel fitting...

Hi, Two potential works to our bungalow. Can you tell me whether either will require planning permission, or have to be notified for building regs? 1) Move the back door. This is currently on the side of the utility room, and we want to move it to the end of the room. Similar distance...

I want to use BAL Arcybase to level out our bathroom floor. It's fairly flat to start with, and the Arcybase will be 2mm to 4mm in thickness. There two or three different areas where old adhesive has been removed, where the bath used to be, and where the concrete has been damaged over the...

We have a 35 yr old hot water tank. I want to replace the immersion element but can't get the old one out. I have a box spanner. I put lots of WD40 around the top first, then tried undoing it. No movement at all. I tried tapping it around with a hammer, and still nothing. Then tried...

Done that. It was cemented down, but luckily onto marly tiles and they came up easily. I now have the large collar and a section of the old S trap inside it. Cement between the two. Really I want rid of the collar. Can I just chisel that off to floor level? Then I want to connect...

Well I needed to do something so I undid the outer nut and the pipe came off. Putting my finger inside tells me there's no pipe inside, and no birds beak. Can I reuse this flange? If not, should I remove it and replace it in the same hole? Or block it off outside the tank and fit another...

OK - I see what you're saying, but I need to use this one really. It's in the right place, it currently feeds the shower so it will be redundant if I don't reuse it, and it's in exactly the right place on the tank to connect to. I just want to check the pipe length inside the tank, or put a...

More help needed. We have an existing essex flange into our HW cylinder. I want to use it to feed a Salamander ESP shower pump. Is this "fit for purpose"? If so I'd like to check that it has the "birds beak" on the end of the pipe, and that the pipe goes in far enough (4" as per...

We're replacing our toilet and want to turn it around. The existing setup is in this picture: How does this come undone? And how do we connect new soil piping to it to take it around a corner and then connect to a new "rear exit" toilet? All help appreciated. Thanks Ant

Hmmm. Can't see that holding, and knowing me I'd end up with PTFE stuck in the pump. Besides, it's not designed to seal on the thread. It's not a tapered thread. Any more ideas? Someone out there must have one lying around. Anyone fancy measuring the bleed screw for me? Failing that...

Hi all, I've recently relocated my CH pump. It's all working fine. However when I bled the pump I noticed that the sealing washer on the bleed screw was past it's best. It's now leaking! Anyone know what size washer it is? Do I want a fibre washer or a copper one? The old one was...

I'd only just converted to a y-plan, and the vent and feed were either side of the cylinder coil - vent at the highest point and feed between coil and boiler. In the old setup it wasn't a problem as the coil was convected flow so no pressure on that circuit. Anyhow, thanks to you guys it's...

OK, but doesn't that mean that there's part of the system which won't ever self bleed?

OK - that would make sense, except that the vent won't be connected to the highest point in the system. Is that a problem? The pump is vertical pumping upwards into the bottom of the valve. The valve then splits left and right, and that's the highest point of the whole circuit. Can I...

I've just converted our old C-plan into a Y-plan setup. Originally the tank feed and the vent connections went either side of the HW cylinder coil between it and the boiler. The feed on the upper pipe (from boiler to cylinder) and the vent on the return. In my all new Y-plan I've not moved...

About to fit a 50 gallon polytank in the loft. Instructions say I need 22mm, 27mm and 29mm hole saws. Plumbers kits have the 22mm and 29mm, but I can't see a 27mm anywhere. Not even as an individual item. Any suggestions? Ant

Hi guys, I want to relocate this pump (into a Y-plan setup). At what point does the pump come undone as a standalone unit? Photo below. There seems to be several sizes of fittings all chained together with a pair of gate valves. When re-fitted I want to use two of item 19987 (22mm...

I want to convert our C-plan setup to fully pumped system. The boiler has outlet and return pipes at both sides, one to the HW circuit and the other to the CH circuit. Do I have to join these together or can I block one side off and run only from the other side? Perhaps I only need join the...

Hi all, I want to fit a Salamander CT50 twin impellor shower pump to feed a Tre Mercati Imperial Thermostatic Deck Bath Shower Mixer. The mixer is thermostatic only on the shower outlet, and fills the bath via normal hot and cold "taps". Will the pump work with this? Specifically, if just...

No. I left it 24 hrs but realised that these particular tiles hadn't set. Left it another 48 hrs and it seemed ok so I grouted it all. That was 2 weeks ago. Hey ho. I'll know next time. I need to find a small quantity of cement based floor tile adhesive now as there's only 1.5m x 15cm to...