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Attached is a photo of my hot water cylinder top outlet. The pipework you can see is 28mm, though it gets slimmed down to 22mm just out of shot. I intend to fit a Surrey flange to feed a pumped shower (cylinder is boxed in so no easy access for Essex). What size Surrey do I need? Or when it's...

Are there any rules or conventions about how far from the wall the soil pipe (into which you plan to push the finned end of the pan connector) should project? It's an ugly looking thing so I plan to finish it as near to flush (no pun intended) as is possible.

Also amongst the worst crimes is ”sat” instead of ”sitting”.

Confusing their and they're is another annoying one.

Thanks Gasbod, that's reassuring. I hadn't seen that part of the Speedfit documentation.

They all knew what I meant!

Yeah, I got a roll of Toolstation PB pipe (which unrolls and straightens really nicely) and some PB inserts. Anyway, point is, I got some straight Speedfix pipe too and I've been using the Speedfix inserts in both. It really doesn't seem to matter.

Thanks for all your comments. I've decided to leave the work I've done as it is. There's no real difference in price, so I'll use the Superseals from now on, but I don't know why!

The warranty argument is irrelevant as it only covers the cost of the fittings, so if one fails the warranty only saves me a quid! Doesn't matter how I've assembled the stuff, I still have to replace the furniture downstairs myself...

As I said in the first sentence of my question, I am aware of the manufacturer's advice and I wish I'd read it before I started the work. I was fooled by the fact that Toolstation, Wickes (and B&Q I found out today) don't sell the Superseals, so I didn't know they existed. What I wanted was...

Manufacturer's advice is to use the Superseal inserts (the ones with o-rings) with their Speedfix push fit fittings, standard inserts with compression fittings. Yet both Wickes and Tool station don't even stock the Superseal inserts. My question is: how important is it to use the Superseals...

I've been given a good quality little-used chrome effect shower door. I would like to reuse it, but even when extended to its maximum width it is about 10mm too narrow for the aperture I want it to fill. Does anybody know where to buy chrome box section to widen a shower door? I think Wickes...

In the end I didn't need to backfill, the airlock cleared on it's own overnight. Seeme the pipes were correctly connected!

Not much help, but pretty quick!

I've fitted a new downstairs radiator and both it and the downstairs rad I've "spurred" it off refuse to get hot. I'm confident the pipes are connected correctly, and the new rad is fitted with a bidirectional TRV. All other rads and hot water work fine, so it seems highly likely I've got an air...