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missus replaced our pic with neighbours place as their estate agent took a better pic....sorry I didnt comment as feared it would complicate things. Our place is identical except we have double pantile slates. These prob cause half the prob as the channel the water straight down. I may have...

the gutter capacity is fine. I checked this during during heavy rain. Its just how the water flows into the lower gutter from the dormer. Part of the problem is that the wavy nature of the tiles combines to form a channel that the water rockets down to the lower gutter. So dispersing the water...

the idea of adapting the dormer pipe is good but its a nightmare to get access to the dormer unless I go out the window tied to a rope! The roof is deceptively long and I havent seen anyone get a roof ladder to reach from the lower gutter onto the ridge of one of these roofs yet. Dont...

Hi, rainwater coming from the dormer downpipe rockets down the roof (as in red arrow on pic) and when it hits the main lower roof gutter it tends to overflow causing a drip/torrent depending on how heavy the rain is. Tends to also soak wooden fascia and splash onto ground floor sill so keen...

to end this saga, I quickly learnt how to solder joints using advice on this site and did so in this case. Never looked back. Thanks for all your great advice on here.

Need to decide on shaver socket position before tiler arrives thurs so I can cutout a box in the wall. Please let me know if this rings alarm bells in any experienced Sparks. I attach a pic of where I would like it to go (the black rectangle in pic). This is within 60cm of bath edge =...

water regs. Maybe I should read them now and again.... compression fitting behind wall=joint=inaccessible=dont do it 7. - (1) No water fitting shall be embedded in any wall or solid floor. (2) No fitting which is designed to be operated or maintained, whether manually or electronically...

Can someone confirm for future readers of this sorry saga....OK but NOT ideal to conceal compression fittings behind a stud plasterboard wall for water. Illegal to do this for gas. Bathroom is entirely gravity fed and no probs with pressure so lets move on from that.

tank fed gravity system yes. I am fine with getting compression fittings on with no leaks. I have some new plasterboard left and could easily cut out the wall to the side of the loo and reroute some new pipe to the toilet cistern using compression elbow then patch up p.s. my stillson is...

when I say stopcock doesnt go off I mean there is still a susbtstantial drip that is too much to consider a solder Any compression is no problem I would say I have an aversion to pushfit but hey, there are two pushfit stopends in my pic and very well they work too. Can you REALLY bury a...

i could reasonably easily replace the top pipe (that actually leads to the loo) as there is a new compression fitting further to left (not shown). The T leads to basin but can solder a new one on the new tube. fixing the stop cock from the loft tank is a very valid point but I dont want to...

In going from the existing low level cistern type loo to a close coupled I am going to have a prob connecting to the existing water feed. Pipe is high, comes out of the wall exactly on a soldered bend and points wrong way. Will somehow reroute the pipe to a lower position and ensure it can...

Just trying to summarize close coupled toilet installation tips gleaned from sources including this site before I go ahead. Any additional tips and advice, I would be grateful.. 1) check all seals and fittings (such as the doughnut between cistern and pan) and the loo porcelian itself for...

I stuck with my original plan and all worked well with 50cm tap connectors from screwfix (internal bore was about 12mm i think). Before putting bath in I did the hot tap connector and checked pressure by attaching hot tap connector to hot tap tail and blocked the cold end tap tail with a...

now I am wondering if the mixed/gas blowtorch I am discussing is up to the job. I only have 3 joints to solder (one is a 22mm , others are 15mm) and all will be assembled and soldered (solder ring) before attaching to existing pipework with compression joints (which I hate). Looks like it works...

thanks for your comment Dave. I thought I was ok with going at angles or upside down with this torch because... from benzomatic: "Pipes are often in places that are difficult to reach and most pipe fitting jobs are done at awkward angles. Therefore, we have designed our entire range of...

thanks for recommendation probably not going to be a huge user though. I can cope with it occasionally going out but Im terrified my flux will be happily evaporating while I am relighting the torch!

I am using one of these blowtorches to solder copper pipe. Seems to work fine but occasionally goes out just after a spurt of flame (from the nozzle not the can) and sometimes just at the crucial solder melting point!! Anyone had experience of this? Surely I can hold it at an angle or upside...

gravity fed but tank is effectively two floors up so pressure has been good. The connectors have service valves so can check for leaks before bath goes in and can just about reach them if there are issues. Not so keen to branch pipes under bath as at some point I have to branch the cold to...

Hi, I am installing a new bath. The existing tap connectors do not line up with new bath tap holes... The right hand connector (cold) is a pain because the pipe branches from the unequal T into a bend (so cant attach a flex on the bend) that is also short. Short flexible 22mm connectors do...