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Hi, I’m currently fitting a new bathroom and sure what to cover the geberit toilet frame with ready for tiling. The install guide for the frame suggests 2 layers of 12.5mm board. Would I be ok to use 1 layer of 12.5mm aquapanel or other cement board instead? I’ll be tiling over it with...

Hi, I'm going to be fitting the bathroom in an ensuite loft conversion I've just had completed. The builders have put 18mm ply on the floor in the ensuite. If I put noggins every 400mm between the joists, would the ply be OK to tile onto or should I replace it with something else (or add 6mm...

Thanks for that. Are the restrictors easy to access or would I need a gas safe engineer to do it.

The second picture shows the valve I mean with the slot on the bottom. I've checked it though and it's fully open. It does sound like there's a flow restrictor fitted which would explain what I'm seeing

just to add to this, I've tried turning the dhw off on the boiler so it doesn't heat it at all. This makes no difference and I still only get around 10lpm out of the hot outlets

Hi, I had an WB 8000 life 30kw combi fitted in 2023. At the time our house was fed from a lead mains and the flow rate into the house was around 12lpm. Last year we had a new supply from a 4inch main and now have a 25mm supply pipe into the house. Pressure is good and flow from the cold taps is...

The main water pipe coming into our house is lead which then changes over top copper shortly after entering the house. The water flow is around 12 litre per minute which has been OK for the 15 years we've lived here but we're now looking to add another bathroom with shower in the loft. I've...

It’s definitely solvent weld. Didnt know if w heat gun would loosen up the glue or not

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Hi, I’m after a bit of advice on the easiest way to replace a basin trap. The trap is one of the flexible corrugated things and must be filling up with gunk as I struggle to get rid of the smell coming from it. It connects to the 32mm waste pipe using a solvent weld coupler. The waste pipe...

Good point. Was planning on 15 as i’ve got plenty of 15mm pipe knocking about.

thanks, do you mean something like this? https://www.screwfix.com/p/compression-adapting-female-coupler-22mm-x-/81402?tc=PT8&ds_kid=92700055281954514&ds_rl=1249404&gclid=Cj0KCQiApY6BBhCsARIsAOI_GjZ5XQkxgw6gyP9nFLLbQKLdT7PYe_8LxAcB3dekhJemExKw1M15hTwaAiUSEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Hi, The internal expansion vessel on my WB Greenstar 30si has failed (water coming out of the valve) so I need to replace it. The boiler is fitted high on the wall so there's not enough clearance to pull the vessel from the back which would mean taking the boiler off the wall. The boilers over...

I did try stripping back to brick originally but they’ve been well stuck. It looked like the wall had been rendered and the tiles bedded into the wet render. Even my sds tile lifter wouldn’t shift the majority of them. The old owner had done the same in the bathroom and it took me 3 days to...

Hi, We have a lean to type porch on the side of our house. when we bought the house, part of the wall was tiled but the OH wanted it painted. The tiles were well stuck to the render so I pva'd them and skimmed over. Bit of a bodge but it's been fine for about 10 years. The OH has now decided...

Hi, I had a new boiler installed back in 2011 and some radiators replaced at the same time. The house is a 3 bed semi built onto a slope so the boiler is in the cellar and two floors of rooms above. The CH flow and return form the boiler are 22mm for the first few metres before splitting off...

Hi, I had a WB Greenstar 30si installed in 2010. It's been serviced regularly but I don't think it's ever been stripped down and cleaned. Over the past couple of weeks, we've had an intermittent problem that's getting more regular. I'd get up in a morning and the thermostat is requesting heat...

I'll take some photo's next time I'm there. It's not a chimney breast - it's the party wall between this house and next door. At the other side, there may well be a chimney breast though (in the neighbours house). there's no pipes in the wall or in the room above. The yellowing isn't what I'd...

I'm currently renovating a house. I've had it rewired and a few months ago, I plastered the chased / around the sockets using bonding and multifinish. In one of the rooms, I've had some bright yellow stains coming through the wall in patches. I've not painted yet so I can try using stain block...

Hi, I’ve fitted a couple of mcalpine anti syphon traps in the bathroom. The aav bit has a blue plastic stopper inside when i remove the cap - do i leave this in place or remove it? Cheers