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My home was a newbuild around 15ish years now and under the kitchen sink is one of those brass stopcocks labelled main water stopcock. It’s been fine all these years but recently I had to turned the water supply off and on a few times to do some bathroom work. Since then I’ve noticed that the...

I have purchased a Manrose 100mm In-Line Mixed Flow Extractor Fan and a ceiling vent that will hook up to this. I’ve currently placed the vent itself directly above the shower area where the steam starts. The extractor fan itself is in the loft and the run to the extraction point is relatively...

Can I use a JG 15mm push fit end cap on the 15mm end of this following product: https://www.toolstation.com/hep2o-male-adaptor-brass-spigot/p77983 It's purely for a temporary application where I have this particular toolstation spigot available and also have a 15mm JG push fit end cap stop. And...

I have a ceiling mounted shower arm that comes with a G1/2" connection for shower head and the other end is a NPT male 1/2" but is supplied with a BSP 1/2" male to NPT 1/2" female adaptor. But it does not mention which side of the arm itself is the NPT side and which side is the G1/2" side. Is...

I have a 2-gang light switch on one plate, each gang controlling a separate lighting circuit: 1. Downlights 2. Ambient LEDs Both circuits are separate, but I want it so that: Ambient lights can be switched on by themselves When I turn ON the downlights, the ambient circuit also turns ON if it...

I need to solder a 15mm copper 90 degree bend about 11 to 12cm away from the fitting which contains some plastic materials too. I the soldering fire mat which has been great but for this particular solder I’m more concerned that because it’s relatively close to the fitting that the heat will...

I need to move a shaver socket in my bathroom which is in a stud cavity. But the wire falls about 50cm short. Is there a way to extend this? I have the cavity open at the moment and hasn’t been backer boarded yet.

I have the following transformer (pictured below) which is for an infrared touchless toilet flush system. It’s input power draw seems relatively low. I have a storage cupboard outside the bathroom with a fused spur that has supply but hasn’t got anything connected for the load. It was put there...

I have a 110mm soil stack that has rubber rings inside where the soil pipe enters it as pictured below. I’m wondering since I’ve remove the pipe that enters it a few times and the rubber is about 15 years old can these rubber rings be changed in their own? The rubber ring does come out. It’s...

I’m installing a concealed shower valve with an in-wall brass box. It has four connections: hot and cold inlets, and two outlets (for example a fixed head and a hand shower). Before I board and tile the wall, both outlet pipes will be connected and capped at the drop-ear wall plates (½”...

I’m installing a Mira shower tray and the waste trap has two outputs and one output is to be capped with a blanking cap that has a blanking washer. The other pipe that connects to the waste pipe only has a conical ring for the compression fitting but it doesn’t have the usual flat washer that...

Under my floorboards I’ve got this type of pushfit system and some Tees and elbows but I need to remove the tee and just put the exist elbow as I don’t need the tee section. But it doesn’t seem to look like the standard JG speedfit type that you twist to lock and unlock and push the collar and...

I’m connecting a 40mm shower waste into a vertical soil stack using a boss strap. The boss inlet will be side-entry (horizontal) into the stack and i have a rubber adaptor for the 40mm pipe to enter the boss inlet bit. The distance from the shower tray outlet to the boss strap connection is...

I bought the following boss strap from Toolstation and bought the rubber 40mm insert for it. But nowhere does it say if the strap is suitable plastic that will solvent weld or not. Because from what I remember only abs and certain plastics can be solvent welded. Therefore the bit that’s going to...

I have a soil stack as pictured. I no longer need that white 40mm pipe going into the stack. But i also need to trim back the pretending bits. So I’ve highlighted in green and red. The red one I can trim the bit sticking out but for the bottom one in green that currently already has a solvent...

I have a 1700x800x25mm Mira Flight Safe stone resin tray that I need to install as low as possible for a wet room look. My initial plan was to cut out the chipboard floor where the tray will sit, then use 38x63mm CLS battens screwed to the joists slightly lower, followed by a 20mm plywood layer...

My 110mm soil pipe is currently situated in the corner of the bathroom. It was previously boxed up behind a stud wall. I’ve attached some pictures. One of the photo shows the 110mm coming from the left and entering the Tee to go down. And the other photo I show the gap between the wall and the...

I’ve removed porcelain tiles from my wood floor substrate. Was extremely difficult but chipped them all away bit by bit. I’m now left with lots of patches of notched trowel flexible adhesive. The adhesive is the flexible type and is soft it’s not the rock solid cement type. What’s the best way...

On the current external side of my bathroom wall there is currently green plasterboard that was dot and dabbed. The thickness of the plasterboards look approximately 20mm. I’m ripping the plasterboards out from the blocks completely to replace it with 20mm xps backer boards. I’ve attached a...

I’m stripping out my bathroom currently. I believe that it currently has a form of tongue and groove chipboard with some sort of grey top layer so not sure what sort of floorboards it is. I’ve attached a closeup photo of the surface. Three questions: 1. All the floor boards have uniform join...