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Thanks Gasguru - that's what I was slightly afraid of So if it were you I assume you'd do the work and replace it - your reservations around plastic aside? On the point around getting the threads sufficiently tight is that in reference to plastic fittings or the pain of fitting plastic...

I literally just finished plumbing in new shower, using plastic polypipe and brass compression joints with copper olives and pipe inserts (about 20 in total). The system has water pressure in it now and there are no leaks so all good. Except the very next day I happen to be talking to two...

I literally just finished plumbing in new shower, using plastic polypipe and brass compression joints with copper olives and pipe inserts (about 20 in total). The system has water pressure in it now and there are no leaks so all good. Except the very next day I happen to be talking to two...

Hi Thanks for advice - ended up boxing in one of the walls to create 90 degree angle and at same time create space for control valve Works well and fit of tray to space so much better so worth the effort! R

Hi We are installing a new shower cubicle in our bathroom. The walls are block concrete with a plaster skim. The problem we have is fairly standard I guess - the walls aren't right angles. So what I would love is some views / opinions on the two solutions I can think of - see below: 1...

Hi I have a plasterboard wall which I re-enforced with extra wooden noggins and a piece of 18mm ply nailed between them. The wall is now decorated and it's time to fit the basin to the wall - and it's now I am having second thoughts about whether the wall will be strong enough The basin...

Hi After yesterday's downpour I've got some fairly major problems it would seem with damp / water proofing! I live in a first and second floor flat and walked into the house yesterday with large patches of water on the first floor carpet. The carpet was sodden (you could feel the water...

Hi I have a roof terrace which is roughly 6.8m wide by 3.4m deep which is currently decked with a flat felt roof underneath. Its been like that for around 12 years but the decking has seen better days. So whilst I rip up the decking I am thinking that I should do something with the felt...

Hi We are spending our first winter at a new home with a sealed system boiler (Potterton Puma) and underfloor heating and during this cold spell it's proving costly to get only lukewarm water! Got a couple of specific questions but any thoughts on the below would also be welcomed: -...

Unfortunately I didn't read the posts about Bathstore before and how bad they are so I am now having to try to fit a Euro Mono WC and have some questions if anyone can help and has experience of them: 1. Simple one... when I connect the cistern to the pan does the black coupling have to...

Thanks both - the only thing I forgot to mention was that the house is 'upside down'. It is on the 1st and 2nd floor of the building and the bedrooms and boiler / cylinder are on the 1st floor - the kitchen is on the second. Would that affect things? Will check the kitchen again tonight...

Hi In the process of redoing bathroom and have come to the stage of needing to turn the water off. Installed in the house is a mains fed direct system with an unvented cylinder and boiler set up. There is a mess of pipes in the cylinder cupboard but only one with a traditional stop cock on...

Brilliant - thanks both Going to strip it all out and replace with the Aquapanel stuff from Wickes (someone else had mentioned that too) - and you're right, don't want to be thinking about the old stuff still in there So next up just need to think about replacing a loose head shower with a...

Thanks for speeding response - makes sense!! I also need to cheat the enclosure a little - reducing it from 94cm to 90cm - so thinking I should just overboard the existing plasterboard rather than replace.... make sense?

Hi I just about to start the most ambitious DIY project I have ever undertaken and a bit nervous about making a complete hash of it! In summary I am stripping out a wet room and replacing with a more conventional set up - sorry can't stand wet rooms! Anyway spent last weekend stripping...