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OK - I see your logic. So why has it set on the sides? Has the moisture of the adhesive effectively run down and soaked into the concrete floor either side? Ant

In a shower room at a small campsite on a farm. We've made a sloped concrete floor for the shower which I've put floor tiles onto using waterproof tile adhesive and grout. That appears to have worked absolutely fine. The sloping shower floor is separated from the rest of the cubical by a...

Say 1 to 2 mins. Definitely less than the sink, but still a reasonable amount of time. There's a lot less delay in the kitchen and utility but they're either side of the tank in the circuit so the distances are a lot smaller. There's a gate valve between the header tank and the hot...

No valve. I've checked. Bath is not so long, but mainly because the flowrate is greater. It also matters less on the bath. We just put the plug in and turn on the tap. Cold water at the start is the same as cooling ti with cold when its full, so that's fine. It's really really annoying on...

Er - not quite. We do get plenty of hot water through, but it takes 3 or 4 minutes (literally) for anything warm to arrive. I can fill the basin sink about 8 times before it's warm enough to wash with. Point taken on the 22mm to the bath. How about this alternative. Leaving the bath...

Hi all, We have a gravity fed hot supply to our bathroom, currently all in 22mm pipe. We're about to completely gut the bathroom and replace it with a new suit, new tiling, etc. The bathroom is about 15m from the hot water cylinder, and with 22mm pipe it takes ages to get hot water in the...

My father-in-law runs a small campsite and we're installing a new shower block. The cubical is partitioned with low density breeze-block dividing walls. We need to tile them, and also tile the concrete floor. Do we need plaster boarding or cant he tiles go straight onto the blocks? What...

What's a pumped hot water circuit? We appear to have a disfunctional gravity hot water circuit already but I'm not quite sure if that's what it is. There's two hot water outlets on the tank, one at the top and another a few inches down. The lower one goes into a pipe through the floor and...

Hi all, Our bathroom is about 20m from the hot water cylinder and it takes ages for hot water to reach the taps. Is there any clever way to reduce this? Obviously we can shorten the pipework as much as possible, and lag it, but is there anything else we can do? In particular is there an...

Erm!?? I would like to comply with building regs, which is partly why I've asked about whether a soil pipe vent is needed or not. What do you mean by "gone though building regs". Surely building regs are something to comply with, not to "go through". You now have me worried that we may need...

Hi all, We're fitting a new toilet into what was previously a large cupboard in our utility room. There is an existing underground soil pipe within 2m of the external wall and we want to connect the waste into this. Can anyone help with the following: - Will we need a soil vent stack...

Ah ok. So given that I'm fitting handles, I need the 63mm type? Ideally I want the handle backplate (and therefore the hole) to be in the middle of the 100mm door structure. So 63mm depth = 50mm from face plate to hole? Ant

I have 10 stripped pine doors to fix. The outer structure of the door (excluding the panels) is about 100mm. What size latch barrel do I need? There seems to be 75mm and 63mm (3" and 2 1/2" ?). I guess the aim is to put the handle in the middle of the 100mm of solid wood on the door rather...

Anyone know where I can buy a manhole cover, about 450x300mm?

Hmmm. Well I tried that on Monday before placing the original post. Tippers were happy to sell me a water meter but "hadn't got time" to help me select the various fittings. Plumb Centre, on the other hand, insisted that only the water board is allowed to fit water meters! I have a...

We have a 22mm O/D plastic pipe carrying water to our house. We are downstream of some else's water meter in a rural area so rather than paying thousands for our own private line to be brought in we've entered an agreement to pay pro-rata for what we use against the bill for the other property...

Thanks for all the replies folks. It is only roof drain water which goes down it, but we live next to a wood so there's lots of leaves collect up there and get washed down, and lots of moss too. The old pipe seems to be about 6 inches short of where it needs to be, and the other end of it...

We are replacing an underground drain pipe which takes water from our downspouts (round plastic) to a ditch at the other side of the garden. The old one had a large 90 degree bend pointing upwards, and the smaller downspout dropping into it, but this fills with leaves and soil. Can anyone...