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Hi, I'll be purchasing a makita core drill soon, and just wondered if anyone could recommend a decent core drilling piece set to go with it? For drilling flue holes right down to 1 1/4 inch waste. Thanks in advance.

I currently have a makita drill/driver set which im very happy with. So would like to stay with the makita brand. I'm after a decent sds drill 230/240v with a clutch and hammer option. Would be used for the bigger jobs ie coring for flues/waste etc. Any recommendations please? :edited...

just wondered if any of you tradsesmen, especially plumbers, have any experience with these? are they reliable? well put together? i see they only come in 1.9/2.0 litre. what mpg are you getting?

hi, doing a job in a restaurant toilet. The end urinal keeps overflowing, there is 3 in total. The problem one is furthest from the soil stack. They all drain very slowly, i've managed to get some access to the stack and found an inspection cap. I've temporarily dried fitting a durgo vent...

I was having a chat with a friend the other day (a plumber). We were talking about power flushing, he mentioned he doesn't like them as sometimes they do more harm than good in terms of causing the odd leak where the system had previously been 'held together' by the sludge and muck. He mentioned...

Hi, I fitted a new mira duo for a friend. It is now making a whistling noise, and he is complaining that the hot water is a bit sporadic. The old shower was a new team. This had some sort of blending/blalncing valve fitted under the bath. The reason he wanted the old one replaced was...

Hi Gang, a friend of mine wants his shower changing. Its a New Team model, thats over 10 years old. The pipe centres are 100mm. The smallest adjusters I can find are 110mm. He has a Mira bar mixer shower he's bought to replace it with. Are there any adjusters out there that would keep the...

Hey gang, for those of you that are sparkies/plumbers/brickies etc that started as an apprentice, how and when did you start out on your own? Did you slowly build up your basic tools and just start by doing jobs for friends and family and it build from there? I suppose you'd have to be...

Hi guys, y plan open vented system, rads upstairs are getting hot but downstairs are all cold. I've checked the pump, this seems to be fine. Any ideas what the cause could be? Thanks

Hi all, how much would be the going rate to charge for changing a siphon in a toilet cistern? Would you wait and see how long it took and base it on an hourly rate (if so, what?). Or would you charge a fixed amount?

Hi all, thinking about getting into plumbing, just wondered what the going rate is for apprenticeships? Does it then increase the more experience increases? Thanks.