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washing machines are usually 600mm wide and generally they will fit under the work surface. so check the height of machine and underside of work-top, will it fit under ? Next check the depth of the machine and the depth of the worktop (front -back), you don't want the machine to stick out...

try to go for a popular brand from a plumbing merchant, these all plastic valves I consider to be semi-disposable, a bit like errr..........jug kettles, steam irons, vacuum cleaners etc.

I recently used a boundary box stop tap. The gland failed and the "box" filled with water. This means there is a risk of contamination. Customer told water board he was having to boil his water. Thet came and fixed the stop tap next day.

would be a lot easier to repace with a new plastic stack. Or if the loo is not on an outside wall, a new drain.

you could hire a pipe freezer. or buy a freezing aerosol in a can. You need to work quick with the later though.

I have found that putting ptfe tape on the olive of a new compression joint means that the friction sound of the olive biting can't be heard and I over-tighten the joint, deforming the pipe, and it leaks. However as has been said I always put a couple of turns on the olive with an old joint...

dripping Tap ?

Neither,........ he would not have the appropriate NIC certificate for his selling pack or whatever and his house would be worthless.......Right :?: He needs to get a qualified person who knows how to drill holes, cut and strip wire properly. As for the RCCD, like Kev says most CU's have...

can you not extend the pipe using a yorkshire (solder ring) coupler. Soldering these is not difficult. Protect the wall behind with a damp heat mat. If the job is really tight, a soldered copper elbow can be removed by heating until the solder melts. The pipe stub can be cleaned with wire wool.

why not take a course in autocad and do a HNC in building studies. An architectural technician is an easier and cleaner job and comes with a pension. Why have the ball ache of being on the tools when you can sit in a nice clean office drawing the job. Most domestic plumbing work is done...

I my experience most vendors don't supply nearly enough sink clips to get a good result. Lucky for me my favorite local plumbing merchant sells packets of spare clips. I think the clips are fairly standard for s/s sinks.

Thats a good sugestion Agile. Remember a 12Kw water heater is gonna need a long length of fat copper wire running up from the consumer unit off a dedicated mcb (fuse). with big socialist brother's Part P that ain't gona be a DIY job. If it were my basin, I'd go with Kev's kettle and get up...

If the system is designed with a larger temp drop (20 not 11'c) then I believe I am correct in suggesting the mean temp of the rads will be less. Using a Mears calculator then, the temperature difference between the mean temp of the rad and the room will be less and therefore a larger rad is...

I wonder if putting in a radiator at the end of the return pipe plumbed in "single pipe system" style would help :?: I've never done this incidently :!: :idea: I wonder then how many installations are going to run in condensing mode when producing hot water only. or is it easy to get...

sounds about right considering the quality of fittings available today. Who made the hole in the cast iron stack ? this is the root of the problem. You could always just re-root the waste pipe out through the wall into an open hopper if there is one. This would contravene current building...

or open an adjustable wrench to the diameter of the pipe. Use the wrench like a hammer sliding it down the pipe onto the nut to knock off the olive. won't always work, nothing will if the joint was grossly over tightened.

pipe size should be 40mm. drill hole using a hired diamond core drill. run pipe out through wall before gas cooker, I have in the past run sections behind gas cookers but converted the pipe into 40mm copper for this short run. The 1m length of copper is expensive though. If the pipe...

lift floor board fit compression fitting out of site. bring 10mm pipe up through floor board

I thought redlead was what they painted onto stop steel rusting. I must be missing something here. :?:

AArrrrrrghh, customers stop tap not working, so I turned off supply using the boundary box stop tap, I turned it back on and the gland is leaking badly, the clay pipe 'box' is full of water. When I quoted for the job he showed me were the house stop tap was and told me it worked fine, I had...