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see chimney salts http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/chimneydamp.htm

200 year old bricks, most of the salt is located behind chimney stacks so I assume it's from the days when they had real fires.

There's a variety of surfaces to be tiled in our bathroom: New Exterior Plywood New unplastered plasterboard Old plastered plasterboard Old lime plaster Our tiler mentioned he would PVA everything but I'm not going to let him do that. I have some BAL tile primer, am I better off...

Currently redoing one of our rented houses. There's a pantry area that's just had all the plaster hacked off because it had blown in places due to salts. The said plaster had been on decades mind. I'll be treating the walls with salt neutralizer and then regarding re finishing the wall...

Doesn't seem to be much mention on here regarding: Polyfit http://www.polyfit.co.uk Flo-Fit from floplast I usually use hep2o but recently bought some polyfit white fittings which are sold at B&Q. Thought they were pretty good, seemed a lot more robust than speedfit but there's no...

Want to add 4 mains downlights in our bathroom which currently has a ceiling rose wired like so: http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/project_images/lights_and_switches/ceilingroseb2.jpg Can I simply run flex from the existing rose to the downlights? ie: [code:1] rose ---------- JB...

I contacted manufacturer. Their solution was as I feared.... Part plasterboard the wall and part tile the wall simply to accomodate the poor design of the outlet elbow.

I'll give manufacturers (deva tap) a call and see what they say.

It's a hollow stud wall. Even if I don't use the plastic backnut, the elbow still has to be connected to the pipe and fixed in place before the wall is finally covered up with plasterboard. The problem seems to be the elbow is not detachable from the threaded shaft which many other shower...

I have a 'Vision' manual mixer shower from wickes. The main valve installation can either be exposed or concealed and is pretty straight forward. However, the elbow that's required for the concealed installation has me rather puzzled. I have uploaded the instructions/image for here...

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I have a basin waste like this: http://www.screwfix.com/prods/35683/Plumbing/Wastes-and-Traps/Basin-Waste;jsessionid=HTUNWIP5XBHYUCSTHZOSFFI# I comes with a nut and a very thin washer. Instructions say that the washer should be placed between the nut and the underside of the basin like so...

I get my fittings from plumb center(non trade) but the bills always seem very high. Anyone recommend another supplier, either on or offline?

Arrived today and a bit surprised to find that there's no clear way of fixing it to the wall. There's 4, approx 1 inch diameter holes in the rear of the basin. No fixings supplied at all, nor instructions. What exactly am I supposed to use to secure it to the wall? Secondly, the pedestal...

Re-doing a bathroom with combi boiler installed already. The hot bath tap is supplied by 22m pipe, this then splits with a Tee to 15mm to go to the basin hot. The cold bath is 15mm and so is the cold basin. I have a couple questions: 1: Is the bath hot supply 22mm for a reason? I'm...

yep, this is what I bought and it worked great. ta

Just got all my push fit waste fittings to do my bathroom. The old waste pipe which I thought was 40mm is actually a bit bigger and won't fit the 40mm push fit waste fitting I have. What exactly can I do?

Are polyplumb grey push fit and hep20 push fit compatiable with each other? ie, can I use a poly plumb 15mm pipe with hep2o fittings?

Both 40mm pipes join a soil pipe on the outside. I thought it might be a good idea to reduce the number of pipes on the exterior of the house while I had chance. I took the bath and sink out today and it seems the bath waste pipe is angled in the wrong direction. The slope is going the wrong way.

Is it perfectly ok for the basin and bath to use the same waste pipe? Currently re-arraging a bathroom which has 2 40mm waste pipes exiting the wall. 1 for bath, 1 for basin and I'd like to re-arrange them in such a way that the basin and bath waste go into the same pipe with a T junction...