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I do not think it will take me long to cut in the pipe and fit in an isolating valve and a tee. My question was is it ok if i push the cwsc float down to see whether there is any water coming out before i cut in the rising pipe? Thank you.

Hi guys. I need to freeze a 15mm mains pipe as the stop cock is broken and i need to tee off the rising main to run a feed pipe to the electric shower. This is a block of flat and the guy does not know where the common stop cock is, therefore i was thinking of freezing the rising main pipe...

Also how long shall i allow for it to dry.....especially the 40 mm. cut out? Ta.

Hi Richard and thanks for your reply. I have made a channel 40 mm deep and 2 meters high into a brick partition wall to run a cold water feed pipe to connect up to the electric shower. Can i use Mapei rapid set adhesive to fill up the channel or is the cut out too deep? In addition to that, can...

Hi guys i am ripping off a friend's bathroom and when removing the old wall tiles to be replaced with new ones, quite a lo of plaster has come off with the tiles. We are a bit out of time and therefore i wanted to ask you 1) if it is ok to use a cement powder tile adhesive in the bathroom and...

Hi guys. Does anyone of you know if they do angled pan connectors with offset? JimCrow gave me a good link for angled connector and actually since the soil stack i have got to connect up to comes out of the wall with a slope and the guy i am working for wants to put floor tiles in the bathroom...

Hi John thanks for the picture but that looks more likely an offset. JimCrow i think thats exactly what i was looking for.....angled pan connector :wink: Thank you very much.

Hi guys. I am doing up a bathroom for a friend. He wants to change his old low level toilet for a close coupled one. At mo the toilet is connected up to a cast iron soil stack coming through the wall which connects up to the toilet via a fairly big collar. I have no problems in cutting the soil...

Hi Nige F and thanks for the reply. I have used the Hep v o valves for wash basin but never to accommodate warning pipes. I do not think the membrane will open when there is a trickle of water coming from the cw cistern warning pipe. I searched on the web and i found out that there exists a...

Hi John506 and Simond and thanks for your replies. Simond you are spot on..............the external wall is quite far away and i can see no overflow pipes sticking out of other flats' external walls.1) The tundish is a good idea but then if the discharge pipe i am going to use ( bathtub one) to...

Hi guys. A friend of mine lives in a block of flats and cw and hw to bathroom and hw to kitchen is fed by two cisterns situated in a kitchen cupboard. The cisterns are fitted with two overflow pipes that join together then the pipe runs through the kitchen wall into the bathroom and leaning over...

Thanks for your advice m8. I have had a look at the Macrist selection.........i was fainting...............the product must be very very good at 50 quid!!!!

Hi guys i need to cut a cast iron soil stack pipe with the angle grinder. Will a general metal cutting disc for steel/inox do the job or do i need to buy a specific cast iron cutting disc? Where can i buy one which is up to do job without having to fork out 30-40 quid? Thank you in advance.

Brilliant thank you all very much.

Hi guys and thanks a lot for your replies. 1) Would the basin mate replace the backnut? 2) i suppose the white part of basin mate goes side up? Sorry for the stupid question...i have never seen one of those before.

Hi guys, i have put a wash basin in but the outlet is leaking. I have bedded the metal outlet which came with the basin in plumbers mate, tightened up the nut underneath with pump pliers but there is still a trickle of water. I suspect that the water is leaking through the two overflow holes in...

When you say finishing off with the hacksaw, i just realized that the top part of the hacksaw is thicker than the blade so the hacksaw does not go all the way through the soil pipe. I should finishing off sideways but i have only got 1" or 2" clearance between the floor and the bottom of the...

Hi guys thank you very much for your valuable inputs. 1) Instead of starting off with a 4" blade and finishing off with a hacksaw, can i use a larger diameter disc so that i can cut straight through? 2) I just have a small angle grinder, is it possible to hire one out for the job? Thanks a million.

Hi guys after some google searching, some advice i gathered was that i could cut through cast iron soil pipe with a angle grinder........is there any big risk to crack the pipe? And what diameter disc should i use? Ta.

Hi guys. I want to replace my toilet pan and at the mo, it is cemented up to the soil pipe with a sort of lip. I do not fancy to chip away the cement between the soil lip and the pan outlet and i think it will take ages to saw through the soil pipe which is not made of plastic but looks like...