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Toothpaste ?!!! what the **** ? Ive heard it all now !!!! :lol: OK, so out of the solutions mentioned, which should I use ? is fernox / plumbers mate BETTER than Silicone sealant ? Maybe I should mix in a bit of toothpaste for that Colgate feeling ?!! BOOGSY.

gentlemen, with all your good advice, I have managed to part install the bath, with taps, waste, all nicley done so far ! however, the bath is made from ACRYLIC, and thus I can not get the RUBBER washer of the overflow, to make a watertight seal against the WOVEN acrlylic surface, as it...

will get a photo done on SAT , and post it. actually, where do i attach pics here ? BOOGSY

hi i got the AVOCADO, from Bathroom Heaven. it seems a good bath, quite thick Acrylic, and nicely finished. Drilled out a hole today, with 25mm cutter, WAS PERFECT !! only thing is , I needed a 27mm hole, but was advised to drill a smaller hole and file it out - NOT NEEDED on this...

brilliant advice, cheers........... so glad I can get my large hammer out again !!! 4x2 ? here I come !!!! :)

well well, fitted bath somwhat, turns out, the side wall of the room ( parition wall ) is NOT SQUARE with the room ! thus , I have about a 2-3 INCH gap on the corner of the bath !!!!! guys, i need your wisdom in this matter, WHAT CAN I use to fill the gap ? ALSO - bath is...

40 an hour ? well that would be about 200 notes just for reading the instructions, no wonder the prices are high ! any other views on this TERRIBLE state of affairs. :o

thanks guys, great help. the board that i am referring to, is FLAT on TOP of the exisiting tiles, right at the edge of the roof. is the FACIA panel, the 'side; part ? if so, this board simply is secured onto it, but on top of tiles, running from top of roof, all the way down...

gentlemen, the 'weatherboard' has rotted away, and has been blow off one side of the roof. well, about half of it remains ! anyway, its a 2 storey victorian house, and Im scared of heights !! NOT ONLY THAT, but my query is; a) IS the weatherboard important ? b) WHY does it...

gentlemen, some of u know that i am presently installing a funny shaped bath, into a very small bathroom, which is part of a not so small house OK, I am now well 'into the job' ( Have mounted the legs and plug hole waste connector ) !!! WOTS THIS ? no tiles under bath ? SO - with...

to my bath ! made in Czech, seems the GB part of the manual was some internet translation, i mean, i spent about AN HOUR re-reading the fesking moronic guide ALL TEXT, with just two 3D skeleton pics, utterly useless. check this out for example " draw an axis line from the centre waste...

dig the floor up ? aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that means removing tiles, lifting up floorboards on a 100 year + house !!!!!!! washing is overated anyway, people managed 1000s of years ago, without all this fancy 'digging' of flooring......... i say, ENOUGH with the water nonsense...

got ya ! that makes sense after all.............

this was the ONLY bath shape/size in UK that would fit my bathroom !!! ideally, floor standing taps are the best, but i saw some in B+Q and they were 598 squid. are these people crazy ? 600 notes for some taps ? so yeah, that was the ONLY choice of bath I had , NO MENTION of where to...

have u tried to fill the crack with anything ? I havent seen this problem before...... :wink:

this is my 1st ever bath installation ( hopefully LAST ever too ! ) well well well, let us see, a fesking complete bath sits onto 2 metal bars, with screw on feet !!!! and the metal supports get mounted by 4 wood screws on each mount, onto the bottom of the hardboard bath base ...

guys, I just temp fitted my bath, when all is adjusted at right height ( for panel ) , I can ONLY manage to fit in a SHALLOW bath waste..... and I mean, theres about 10mm clearance between the bottom of the waste S bend ( or whatever its called ) and the floor...... the main waste pipe...

whats the point of earthing copper water pipes / taps etc ? water is a conductor of electricity, SO arent all the pipes / taps, automatically earthed, as waters is touching all the surfaces ? or am i missing something ? :shock:

forgot to say,, i want to use all plastic pipes, ive seen that the 15mm push-fit INSERTS reduce the bore quite a bit., thus my idea of using 22mm where it wont matter........ good logic ? or am i talking jibberish ?!! :wink:

yes, no what u mean, no real way of telling ! what about a piece of wood, to spread the load over a longer area ?