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Oh okay! Really appreciate all your time and quick responses and you have certainly given me something to think about. :-)

OK, thanks for confirming. Final question if i may, I know you’re supposed to use copper olives when connecting plastic pipes with a compression fitting, but none of my local merchants have 10 mm copper olives (just brass) and the main source seems to be eBay or Amazon. Having purchased...

k, so in my scenario would you be removing the plating and soldering onto the pipe, or just going with compression!

Everything I have read about compression fittings states that they should only be used where they can be accessed, whereas in my case the fitting would be underneath a tiled floor.

I was primarily thinking about removal of the plating so that the pipe could be inserted into a JG joint that would then have the rest of its run in plastic. Was wondering how easy that is to do and make a successful joint? From your response I guess it is a case of using a standard file!?

Okay thanks for that. What’s the best way of removing the chrome at each end to make a connection? Is it easy to get a water tight seal afterwards?

Yes, it’s stainless steel and kicks-out 1300 BTU at delta-50, which is equivalent to the smaller radiator that was there previously and even that was never on full.

Hmm, attached pic has rail at 250mm and it doesn’t look too bad actually. I suppose the other thing is that with the toilet installed, as marked on the wall, you won’t actually see the pipe as you walk in as the toilet will hide it.

Just because it is such a small rad that I thought it would look better higher up the wall. The pic shows the rail at 150mm - ignore piping!

Do you mean as in have the piping on the outside of the wall? If so, it would mean over 400 mm of pipe being on show, as the rail is only 700 (h) x 500 (w) and I’m not sure that would look too great.

I have removed a rad from the bathroom that was fed from 10mm plastic pipe (see attached pic), which had been chased into the wall; I dread to think how deep they went! I now need to move the pipes higher up the wall for the replacement towel rail and my query relates to the best way to do this...

Thanks all. The price of bathroom fittings has gone through the roof recently, as with everything else, and so it is all the more important to ensure that you buy the right stuff as it is expensive to return it!

Thanks John and agree about McAlpine stuff. My only consideration is whether that extension piece, that will mostly be level, has any impact on flushing performance. I suspect not, but I’m really looking for confirmation before I spend rather a lot of money on this particular toilet. I’m...

The house is only 20 years old and it is very common for soil pipes to come out of the floor next to the wall.

Hi John and thanks for responding. The centre of the soil pipe to the tiled surface is 76mm and so to get to 215mm (ref point?) i'll need to make up 139mm.

I'm considering buying a WC that has the spigot 215mm set back from the cistern edge, but my soil pipe comes through the floor, next to the wall. Therefore I will require a standard 90-deg pan connector (e.g. McAlpine CON8) + extension piece (e.g. McAlpine CON-EXT). Will this in any way impact...

Having spent ages looking across the market, the Rak Summit seemed to the best-fit for my requirement. Thing is, I checked on TrustPilot and Rak get absolutely slated, with many complaining about flushing issues and poor quality ceramics; not specifically related to the Summit though i.e. many...

I’ve been looking at various basins to fit on a Corian worktop and I note that many require affixing with screws into the worktop. Thing is, you wouldn’t do this with Corian and so I wonder what the way forward is? Is it the case that you just rely on silicon, or perhaps you glue batons to the...

Noggin are fixed, mostly, but they weren’t there to straighten up the joists but instead add extra strength for reasons I won’t bore you with and also to provide support for the edge of the new floor.

nothing is connected up yet and so that is not my problem, but thanks for the suggestion anyway.