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Hi AlanE, I don't want to be a smart arse but my plumbing tutor told us a few weeks ago that shower manufacturers had now agreed that the optimal position for the hot water feed was from the pipe out of the cylinder going down from a T about halfway before the pipe reaches the vent pipe...

oh yes those look sturdy

I suppose the 7 inch stat won't heat up the water in the stat as quickly as the 11 inch stat

yes but after a few years I wonder whether the screws on those small isolating ball valves will be rusted and not be able to close or open properly. Aren't there only problems with gate valves when they are years old and havent been turned for ages?

are these like valves you put on a pipe to connect washing machine hoses to?

Adam, I have three different kinds of backnut spanners: The ones with the long rod which curls and grips on the nut, the thick shafted one with two fixed spanner heads at either end, and the hollow pipe shaped one with two backnut shaped holes at either end. Which one were you using?

As a plumbing student I've spent over 50 mornings in a workshop at college and still feel nervous about doing anything in other people's houses (because little mistakes can result in a lot of water spurting everywhere) so I would regard a course which offered only two workshops as a ripoff...

It really is a complex job if you don't know about pipework techniques. If you want to learn about those then buy a book like the Readers Digest DIY manual. Are you doing the loft conversion yourself? If not why don't you get the builders who are doing that to move the cistern for you. At least...

Getting to tap nuts is a total b"""""d isn't it. Have you tried a tool called a basin spanner? How is your tap connected? by a flexible tap connector? If it is by a flexible tap connector you can unscrew the bottom another tool you can use is a long round metal thing with two shaped ends (I...

if he's draining the system down won't he have to re-add corrosion inhibitor when he re-fills it?

If I drill a hole in an external wall for a waste pipe can I use filler on the edge of the wall around the pipe to make it look nice or should I leave a little gap for pipe expansion?

You are meant to have a special cold feed from the cold water cistern that supplies the shower only. The hot water feed to the shower should be from a T in the pipe that rises in a bend out of the hot water cylinder (I forget the exact distance it should be). The reason for this is that if...

AlanE, do you own the document you got the BS recommendations from? They're so expensive aren't they? I don't really understand why they can't be made freely available online. I bet very very few plumbers actually pay for them and so don't know exactly what is in them. Is there information about...

Hi, You mentioned that you come from another country and that you live in rented accommodation. Do you know that it is your landlord's duty to maintain the accommodation you live in? So any plumbers bills should be paid by your landlord.

If you stick a few milk bottles in the cistern so only half the existing water is going into the pan (if you don't know how to adjust the ball to reduce how much water goes into the cistern) does the water still splash on the floor? In theory you can only reduce the pressure by lowering the...

I have no idea which pumps are best. The only name I know is Grunfos.

hi oilman is silicone or acrylic jointing compound the same stuff that you put round the top of the bath?

my friend has a toilet room which has a big drain hole and drain cover in the floor (its big enough for me to get into it!). She had a blocked drain a while ago and the plumber found that the drain cover had been cemented down. He chipped away the cement, opened the drain hole cover (I can't...

pbahia, how do you know that a thermostatic shower wouldn't provide enough pressure? I have an electric shower that provides enough pressure and that isn't pumped at all and I live in a flat with the hot water cistern at head height. But I do have good cold water pressure because I live on the...