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Many thanks for the replies which are most helpful.

With the spirit level I have levelled up the closet bowl with cardboard and I find on one side I needed 5mm and at both ends required 2.5mm. How wide should I make the wedge and do I need to space them round the bowl. Is the silicone to hold the wedges in place ?

Close coupled closet suite: I am just about to assemble my closet bowl to a cement floor. 1) I find that the bowl does not fit flush to floor but you can rock it albeit a small amount (mm or so). 2) Also the bowl is at a very slight angle when I put a spirit level across it . Any advice on...

Many thanks for the replies, following your advice (LMannix) I will use the parts as received and a little silicone onthe top hat maybe.

On the bath waste threads you mean you don't need to us ptfe tape and it is OK, everywhere seems to say use the ptfe tape ?

I am just about to assemble bath fittings for an acrylic bath and I believe that I have read somewhere that jointing compounds should not be used with plastics/acrylic bath fittings but to use ptfe tape and maybe silicone.If you use silicone then it is very difficult if you have to undo the...

Have taken pressure gauge off , could't see any muck , then tried gauge on foot pump and it seemed to go up and down ok, do these sort of pressure gauges go wrong easily ie reliability ?

What do you mean by cleaning it ?

(I have a sealed system Altec 18lt vessel kit working since April 2009) Today I was letting water out of the system to reduce pressure so that I could take a radiator off and I noticed that the pressure gauge stayed at 1.5 bar and was not going down , I lightly tapped the gauge but still...

When installing a new acrylic bath do you normaly assemble the bath so that it just touches the wall or do you leave a small space say 2 or 3mm?

Yes I wont use putty around any of the hand grips, but will putty be OK for bath waste connections etc or should you use something else?

Idealform acrylic bath fitting instructions I have says :"Warning Do not fix hand grips in any oil based bedding compound or putty .These materials contain solvents which will damage the hand grips irreparably" the hand grips are metal anyway which are with the halo bath and I was not thinking...

I hadn't thought about water being drawn out of the ubend on a shallow one it makes me think I ought to put in a normal one with a bottle trap. Thanks for the replies

Are there any advantages/disadvatages in using a shallow bath trap as opposed to using a normal bath trap or doesn't it make any difference?

The point I didn't mention about the brackets that they have slots 2.5cm long so it looks as though the screw is hardly likely to hold and you cannot get at one of the screws when the bath is in its place.

I am assembling Halo acrylic bath to replace cast iron and notice that it has two wall fixing brackets but they look more trouble than there worth. Any advice please?

I have just received an acrylic bath and worried about scratching it, the instructions say remove the protective film before installation but not how. I was wondering if there was a special way to remove the protective film or does it come off easily ?

I am having difficulty removing wall tile adhesive and I see that either applying water or hot air makes it easier to get the adhesive off but I am reluctant to try as I wonder whether the wet adhesive then sticks on the floor or wherever it falls? does using hot air really work and does the...

Thanks for the replies. As suggested I will try with my pump pliers.Regards Dugit

I have got to cut some 15mm and 22mm copper pipes which are close to the wall also a little difficult to get at and I was thinking of getting two Kopex slicers which I would just be assemble to the pipes ok but then how do you turn them round ?