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Right, good point. I'm therefore genner get some RQ cement just incase plan A goes t1ts-up. Thanks Bodger! :) :?:

Thanks Chris! Now we're sorted! Cheers mate, (again). :D

Ah ha! Thanks, Chris. In the light of your very welcome advice I shall try to get a McAlpine or Kwikfit item - presumably one of these will do the job? God knows why the plumbers' merchant didn't know this? If I were a cynic I might be tempted to believe that the pm only stocks Multikwik...

We are installing a new bathroom to a 1950's council flat and the prevailing supply pipes are composed of a mix of steel and copper. Having removed a substantial portion of the steel we wish to replace this with copper for the new pipe runs. Believing the existing copper to be 22mm I tried to...

Ever come across a problem of MultiKwik pan connectors not being adaptable to existing soilpipe? Using a standard 110mm connector we are unable to get this to fit with its gasket into the soilpipe, as it is too large (1950’s East London council flat). :( Further purchase of the reducing...

Thanks for the very helpful and sensible advice chaps. I will keep you informed as to our progress. Thanks again! :)

My mate has recently bought a flat in an old council block in East London. He wants me to give him a hand installing a new bathroom suite. There are currently some 22mm copper pipes (surface mounted and painted) that supply water to the bathroom. In addition to this there is a larger pipe around...

I have a question with regards to the increasing popularity of combination boilers within our block of residential flats. Our property was converted in the early eighties and each of the ten flats installed with a conventional gas ch system. In the last three years or so I understand that two...

Wow, that is amazing! :shock: I thought that the cpc (compulsion for condensing) was right across the board ie any every boiler had to be a condenser. It seems totally bizarre that non-regs and DIY'ers can instal what the **** they wish completely impervious to gov decree. Must say I have a...

Is this attractive price by any chance linked to the fact that it is a non-condensing boiler and therefore an unsaleable item after April 2005? Presumably we will start to see quite alot of boilers of this type advertised at very good prices in view of their shelf-life? Might really be worth...

Continental drinking styles as such will not be emulated for probably another ten or twenty years despite MP's encouragement. In France the ****oir has all but disappeared. Public urination is simply a symptom of chav disregard and desire to stir up anger in more obliging folk. Perhaps we will...

Is "winking tw*t" a spoonerism?

I need to fit a new Torbeck valve to my loo and fix a service valve on the supply pipe. Because the pipe runs barely 1mm from the wall there isn't sufficient room to incorporate the sv on the existing ppe. Therefore I will need to remove a piece (about a couple of feet) of the existing pipe...

Currently the printer is working fine with the refill indicator showing about 15% full so the cartridge is not dry at present.

I bought a Dell laptop (an Inspiron 8600) a few months back. Like Bignairy the process of delivery was a complete b*lls-up. But the machine overall has been pretty inpressive. I have had to call Dell on two occasions, once on-line and the other by phone, and really both of these matters were...

Me Too! :D :D :D

I have got MS Office but I have used neither Outlook nor Outlook Express. Could someone give me an idea (just a couple on sentences will be fine, thanks) as to whether my life will be improved if I start using either. I've got a big book on the mantlepiece called Windows for halfwits or...