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Hi, Sort of a plumbing question... I'm fitting a new bathroom, and for various reasons the new bath is oriented 180 degrees from the old one. So the bath trap and waste pipe need to run along under the length of the bath to meet up with the existing waste pipework. The bath feet kit...

Thanks for all the replies - hosepipe from kitchen cold tap did the trick. J

Hi, I'm replacing my bath, so have drained down the water, removed the bath, and capped the hot and cold water bath pipes with push fit stop ends. When I refill the system, no water comes out of the basin cold tap or toilet ball valve. Hot water is fine. Previously, when the CWS tank...

Hi, I'm installing a new bathroom, with tanked bath area and mixer shower. The supply pipes for the mixer need to come through the wall. I want to make sure that the couplers project through the tiles just the right amount to fit securely into the bar mixer with a minimum of screw thread...

That would be my preferred option if the roof wasn't covered in solar panels! I'll go for the soffit, thanks for response.

Hi, I want to fit a shower extractor fan in the ceiling of my bathroom. As it's going up into the roofspace, the most obvious exit point seems to be the soffit. I downloaded the instructions for the vent but the only diagram shows the vent exiting horizontally through a wall. The...

Thanks Micky, that looks like a good option.

[/url] My wife would never let me spend five hundred quid on a shower pump! There must be some halfway house between that and the CT50+?

Hi, The shower I'm fitting imminently has an 8" monsoon head. Current shower has a standard size head and flow is reasonable but not incredible. I think I'm going to need a pump (which is going to be a swine to fit). First floor ceiling height is about 8 ft, with the CWS tank mounted about...

Thanks for replies. Had a quick nose around on t'internet, fitting the flange etc. doesn't look too tricky, but time-consuming and fiddly due to the limited access within my airing cupboard. Think I'll try it without the impeller first - fingers crossed there'll be enough pressure. One...

Hi, I'm putting a new thermostatic mixer shower into our bathroom, and I'm probably going to need to put an impeller pump in. The shower will go on the wall that butts up to the airing cupboard. The usual place for an impeller pump is either on the floor in the airing cupboard or under the...

Hi, I've got a PIR-triggered security light on the front of my garage. All winter it's worked fine, but with the recent warmer weather it's simply not triggering. It was the same thing last year. Can anybody offer a reason why it should be affected by average ambient temperature (or could...

Got nine rads, all single. Considering upgrading some of them to doubles though...

No room outside, will have to be an internal model. The Worcester website says their 12/18 Greenstar model would do - this seemed a bit underpowered...

Hi, (I think) I'd like to replace my current floor-standing oil boiler with an oil-fired combi. My reasons are: 1. Current boiler is getting old and probably inefficient 2. Can get rid of hot water tank in airing cupboard, weight of which has caused the landing floor to dip; and will also...

If the blockage is upstream of the inspection chamber, won't that make things worse?

Thanks for the quick reply. I can borrow my neighbor's drain rods. If the inspection chambers look okay, what's the best approach? Take off the valve and put the rods down from the top?

Hi all Had solar panels put on about three weeks ago. I asked them how they would deal with the stench pipe and they promised me they wouldn't cap it in the loft, but would but in an alternative exterior vent underneath the panels. When they finished, I popped up in the loft, and lo and...

Hi all, I have a Belling cooker, I think it's about 15 years old. One of the hotplates very often decides that if it's on, it's really on. Sometimes you can control the heat, but more often it's either off or on max, regardless of the knob position. Any clues? Don't know much about cookers...

1) That's a good question, I would plan to buy MK, which is my current CU. I assume they'd be compatible? 2) I haven't read them, no. But replacing one screw-terminal box with another isn't something that I consider any more taxing than wiring a plug. The principle is identical. If the house...