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Thanks, I did try that but unfortunately, no joy. Also, when I did try that, the isolation valve (a 90 degree one) ended up pointing down rather than up when fully screwed in tight against the washer. Cheers, Ivan

Hi, I'm just finishing the installation of my new bathroom. All was been going great until I got to the seemingly simple task of screwing the isolation valves into the 1/2" bsp wall plate elbows. I'd expected this to be the usual deal (wrap thread in PTFE and screw into wall plate elbow)...

I'm about to have our bathroom tiled including around the bath where we will have a rail mounted shower on the wall at the head of the bath. FYI, one side of the bath sits against a newly built stud wall with concrete board, head of the bath is up against a freshly skimmed solid stone wall. My...

If it is just the lead then surely I don't care? This would be for a bathroom sink, shower and toilet. In theory potable but in practice used for no more than brushing your teeth (the sink, not the toilet). These do look like they are lead solder though. Grey metal in union between the copper...

I have a tricky install to do in my bathroom where I have a couple of tap isolation valves that required a female 1/2" BSP union to screw into (female 1/2" BSP union needs to be set inside wall). The tap isolation valve does not have enough thread to make it through the wall (12.5mm board plus...

Madrab. Yes, I do tend to build things way overspec but I reckon real solidity has a nice luxurious feel. As you say, the external pipe has the right fitting and I do have access to the other side of the wall. So, it seems like a goer. Unfortunately, best laid plans and all that, I bought a...

To me, this looks more secure. By mounting it directly to the inside of the wall, when I screw on the threaded outlet elbow it will clamp nice and tight to the tiles: Just seems that a backplate elbow mounted to the inside of the wall wouldn't be so mechanically sound. I might be over...

Just found these (generally used for outside taps so hadn't considered them). Any reason not to mount this inside the wall? Looks like an ideal fitting to screw the shower outlet elbow into and can be fixed very securely. Cheers, iep

Thanks for the reassurance. The last thing I wanted to do was go to all the effort of installing the new bathroom only to find I had a worse shower than I started with. Cheers, iep

I currently have a bath (with mixer shower) plumbed direct from the unvented cylinder with the first 2m in 22mm and the last 1m to the tap in 15mm (due to routing constraints). Approx 3 bar pressure hot and cold. Shower pressure and flow are good and bath fills quickly. I'm refitting the...

Thanks, I should have been more clear. It's a full strip out and rebuild the wall job so I have full access to the the stud wall (In fact I'll be building it) so I am free to use any solution I can find. Thanks for the first tip, however, the whole shower mixer is inside the wall so I only...

I'm installing a concealed shower in my bathroom and so need a shower outlet elbow to attach the shower hose to. There are loads of these available (from £5 to £100) but they seem to fall into three designs: 1. 1/2" BSP brass threaded pipe from back of outlet is screwed into a receptacle...

Stopped by the bathroom shop on way home last night and took a look at the display basin. Mounting holes are towards top edge of rear of basin, ceramic is reasonably think (similar to other dedicated wall hung units in the shop), so it looks like a goer. To be totally sure though, I picked up...

Diagram of basin below. If the first elevation is upside down then we're probably good as that means the bolt holes are approx 2/3 of the way up the rear face of the basin.It looks like it must be upside down as the drain connection gives the orientation. Cheers, iep

Good observation. If the bolt holes are at the bottom edge of the basin's rear face then the game's a bogey. Cheers, iep

Thanks. The holes in this basin are large and the recommended fixing kit is to use heavy duty bolts like the Fischer ones. This might indicate that the sink was intended to be used with or without a pedestal (a pedestal is available to match the sink). As for apron to hide waste, I don't believe...

Ta for thoughts. Unfortunately, I'm convinced by both arguments so no further forward :) The wall will be rock solid as I'll be the one building it and it'll be stupidly over spec'd. Really my only concern is that the porcelain will fail at the loaded points if the basin was intended to have a...

I'd like to wall mount a new bathroom sink rather than having to use a pedestal. It's fairly small at only 550mm wide by 385mm deep. Obviously the sink includes the standard bolt holes behind the basin itself but I don't know if these are only mean to prevent the basin moving away from the wall...

As per question about RCBO. Yes, it's a dedicated 2.5mm cable going back to a dedicated 16A RCBO (only feeds UFH). No real room for confusion. Conduit is al indoors (in kitchen) so no real likelyhood of corrosion. That said, I like belt and braces so might well see about squeezing in a...

I gather it is okay to rewire with singles because they would still be sheathed in the earthed conduit? If I could use the conduit as earth then a single 2.5mm Live and Neutral will easily fit within the space vacated by the 1mm T&E. This would solve both the impedance and overcrowding issues...