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I think the silver conent of the s2s are quite low around 2%, the ones i bought were about £35 for a kilo (or £3.50 for 100g). The high silver content rods (15%) were £24.00 for 100g.....nuf said.

thanks for the offer mrgas, but ive just ordered some Rothenberger Solder S2 Soldering Rods With Silver. My GFs parents place is near chatillion so ill be guzzling the "cremant" when i get there. its cheap champers but they cant call it that as its not from that region. anyone got any brazing...

Are you rigging up your wood burner to your heating system and using old fashioned gravity to circulate your heat? My GFs parents have a place in burgundy and are considering putting in a woodburner. They have got elecky oil filled rads whcih are really low powered, a couple of KWs at the...

LOL. thanks for your posts, i'll take a look at some of the high silver content rods then. I read somewhere that uk solder fittings have a socket depth of around 10 times the tube thickness, whereas brazing socket depths are much shallower as brazing is a stronger jointing method. does...

Hi all Im considering taking a job in france renovating a bathroom for a few weeks but ive read that all copper joints need to be brazed rather that soldered. can anyone suggest where i can get some brazing rods so i can brush up on my technique? Ive heard of some called SF-2's but cant...

if you lift the float does the water stop entering the cistern? i had one that was jammed and would never lift when the waterlevel reached the float.

Ive been to check out a job for an out building / scout hut (poorly insulated) which is looking to put in a hot water supply and central heating system. the room dimensions are 15m long X 7m wide and approx 3m high giving an approximate volume of around 315 cubic meters. Their only power...

Thanks Richard. I plan to take the dry part up and out as i only need half of the 200mm for the new bath so hopefully removing the 9.5mm plasterboard and gaining at least half of the 200mm boxing within the wall should give me enough space. Although i wont know that till i open it all up...

so take the vertical soil pipe outside with a bend through the wall, then turn right back into the bathroom to the wc and vent from this end point upwards rather than the original pipe location. are there any probs with the turds passing through a helterskelter ie out of the pan with a 90deg...

ok ive posted a new image in 3d with some perspective but as you can see im no artist. the external wall of this bathroom is partly boxed hiding the soilpipe and wc branch. I want to remove the boxed section thats hiding the vertical pipe and move the upper part (the dry part ) of the pipe...

thanks, yeah the sketch is a bit sketchy, but its in 3d so the bits that look like they run uphill are the wc branches running into the distance to the main stack. i should have drawn the 3d box for the room walls so i all i need to do is offset the upper part of the stack above the wc and...

heres a sketchy diag of what in on about http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~natkins/pipes/pipes.jpg

hi all, i need to move a soil stack thats boxed in inside a bathroom. its in the corner of the room next to the outside wall. Its boxed all the way across the wall to hide the loo waste pipe. the customer wants to get rid of the boxing completely so i assume this means taking the...

Super good at cocking things up is for sure! ok the stub has an AAV on the top and i wanted to extend the stub up to the first floor. so i need to extend it in 110mm and then just branch into it in 50mm the new aav will be in the loft...

Ive got a d/stairs loo with a stub stack next to it. The stack has a vent on the top. I want to install a basin and shower in the room directly above and route the waste to the stub stack. can anyone tell me if there are any considerations i need to incorporate? i was gonna connect a...

unscrew the fitting at the top and insert a hosepipe and run the other end to the bath which should hopefully be lower than your Hot Water Storage Vessel. Start sucking. the water should then start flowing out of your tank.

Hi All, Ive installed the above pump on a gravity system Cold is direct from the cistern Hot is via a surrey flange on top of Hot Water Storage Vessel Shower head is about 400mm from the ceiling with the cold water cistern in the loft located on the floor so if the cold tank is full...

thanks noseall i think youre right, if we go down that route for small jobs, it becomes an expectatation of a freebee should the biggy arise...floood,boiler new CH. thanks for all the goodwill and experience from the posters.

Thanks Tony, thats the most sensible insight into my dilema out of the chaff that has accumulated on the topic. Ive tried to break down the job into what is plumbing and what is generaly diy. Simply pulling up the lino and removing the floorboards are reletively simple DIY tasks and...

Hi All Im just starting out as a plumber and have been asked by a mate to move a sink and a radaitor. Whilst i dont wanna rip him off, i dont wanna sell myself too cheap. Im not in for undercutting current market values and want to know what i should charge as a daily rate or price per...