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Other basins, toilets, showers run into the main foul water drain. I'll check it out. It's a self build, so the house builder is me.....

A number of other basins/toilets/showers flow into the main drain. I'll have a go at rodding the waste through. Fingers crossed..... Ah, well, yes. I'ts a self build, so that's basically on me......

Other basins do flow into the main drain. No soak away, but I'll check the main drains. Nice thought, but I'm the one building the house, so it's effectively on me

It does have an overflow and it isn't blocked OK. So. It looks like it's in the drain. I didn't remove the pie out of the push fit, but I checked where the drain goes into a manhole in the garden. It is presumably blocked, as it doesn't seem to be running into the main drain. If I have the...

I'll give that a try. But if the aav is completely removed (and left open) it drains really well. That said, I'll give it a go.

OK. So. Done that. But. No success. Photos enclosed. Still slow, unless I prop open the tab under the air inlet. Still unsure what's going on.

It's the only pipe draining into that waste. Sink outlet (and dishwasher outlet) go to u bend, the pipe (which is actually vented) runs down to t join, bottom going to 110mm bung type reducer, top to vent pipe. Pipe goes behind dishwasher, but no blockages anywhere in the system.

I'm in a new build. We have a sink and dishwasher venting into a 110 pipe. I have a reducer on the pipe to 40mm and am having trouble with a vacuum causing the sink to drain very slowly. So I've put in a vent pipe with a macalpine vp2w venta pipe on top of it. It's near as dammit vertical, but I...

Heat the room, basically. We have water based ufh on most of our new build but rushed into the first section and didn't heat it. So we have a suitably sized heating mat, and are just trying to work out which layer goes where.

Hi. Simple enough question. I have to put an electric underfloor mat in under a laminate floor. Question is, does it go under or over the underlay which goes under the laminate? Thanks

Pink board?

Hi. I have steels in my new build, vertical and horizontal, bolted together, and in an external wall. Within the oblong shapes in the steels are large windows. I want to box in the steels, in timber, to finish with the windows surrounded by a box construction. I have been told that I need to...

Just that, really. We have a newly plastered, new build bathroom, so plaster over plasterboard. In the past I've bought, and used, emulsion for kitchens and bathrooms. My question is, is this worth doing? Is it very different from 'ordinary' emulsion? Would/do professionals use this, or is it...

Great. That is exactly what I needed to know. Thanks, everyone.

Hi. I have 2 identical wall light units: https://solislux.eu/en/product/wall-lamp-ceramic-sigma-mini-sl-0229/ They're nice looking units but come with no instructions at all as to wiring, and the bulb holders are not anything I recognise. They look like this: And the connection at the...

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Thanks. That covers exactly what I needed to know. Brilliant! Just the help I needed.

At the moment we just have the usual chipboard P5 flooring. If covering that in OSB is the next step, then OK. And over that, what should we do with the timber, please?

I have a number of salvaged pieces of tongue and grooved floor, mainly around 30cm in length, which I am planning to reconstitute into a floor. I'm planning to cut them all, either to the same lengths, or not, and basically lay a tongue and groove patchwork, glued at the cut ends, and in a...

Hi. I have the following: Toilet, sink and shower on ground floor to below floor waste 110mm from the toilet running up a corner in the ground floor to: toilet, sink and shower on the first floor. There is no roof vent, so I want to use an AAV on the first floor. Do I have to use one as big...