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Copper olive, gas ptfe tape and a wee bit of jointing compound round the edge of the male part of the fitting.

All sorted, no leaks, happy days. Thanks for all the advice.

I did the panels & was bloody careful with them. :D No metal.tools were used by me in the vicinity of the pipes.

Cheers dilalio, will go & grab some jointing paste to add to my collection. I have a leaky rad valve to change in the same bathroom, bloody tilers broke it.

Madras, aye it's PVC wetboard on an outside wall, so the pipes are buried.

Cheers chaps, I left the back nut/bracket off for a better pic of the dink. I will give it a shot with your suggestions.

Cheers dilalio, I don't think I will be able to get any ptfe round it when the fitting is screwed to the wall. :( I had a go with my swaging tool and it doesn't go deep enough.

Hiya, I'm fitting our shower and have discovered that one of the pipes has got a small dink just where the olive for the fitting will be. It leaked like crazy when I assembled & tested it. Any thoughts on how I can sort this out? Would a coating of Fernox LSX on the inside of the olive be...

We had a problem with rats too and they were getting in via an outside drain which hadn't been blocked up when the kitchen extension was done. We would get sewage smells in the kitchen when the bath was emptied. Spent ages hunting for their way in, had the council pest control in, 2 drain...

This is the door in all its glory. More trim on the outside (not present on the other one). I'm not going to investigate what's under there. Lol I had to replace one of the big glass panes in the other one and it was circa £110 from what I recall, including fitting.

That's entirely possible, noseall, the French windows in the 90s extension are identical to the in the 2015 extension. So probably fitted by the same muppets that did the extension. The company still exists, but I doubt they'd come & sort it out after 10 years. Lots to think about &...

This is true, the whole house is a litany of bodges. The insulation & screed for the kitchen extension at the back had been laid over an open drain which they didn't bother closing, so we had an issue with unwelcome guests.

I've had a few replaced here & there since we moved in. As far as I can see this is the only one with this issue, none of the others have trim like this one.

Cheers all for the input. Ivor, you're spot on. There was some plastic trim covering the cavity, which had a little bit of mould on it and had started to detach from the wall. So I pulled it off to see what was going on. I'm not 100% what was there before this set of french doors as they were...

Hi all, Hopefully a quick question. Is it possible to fit cavity closers with the window in place? The cavity is about 60mm wide and I can feel some lovely big blobs of filler foam round the edges of the window. So I imagine it could be quite difficult to get one in there. As these are...

Lol Don't apologise to me. You might need to apologise to the slug though, but I'm not sure how you can tell if a slug is offended.

Cheers Olly, looks like I might have some digging to do.

Thanks John. The DPC is 2 bricks above the ground at that end of the house, it continues at the same height all round the extension. There are no drains or guttering to worry about. I don't think the drive has been purposely built up, but it's at the bottom of a slope so there may have been some...

Inside & another outside pic.

Hi, we have a slight damp issue on the gable end wall of our house. I think the issue is one of the air bricks as part of it is below the gravel of the drive (pictured) Would it be best to remove the airbrick and add a brick at the bottom with a thinner airbrick above? Thoughts welcome.