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It looks like the pipe is 1 3/4”, though, unless I’m mistaken.

Thanks. Won’t that be a bit small?

Sorry about the photo, but it is the best I can do. The bag and tape are holding the everything together. I assure everyone that it is a compression elbow.

I’ll have to take off the tape-covered one tomorrow (the only one being replaced), as it’s too dark now, unfortunately. I put the replacement push-fit FloPlast, that I had intended to fit, up to the outlet pipe, but it was far too small. I hadn’t realised the outlet was bigger than 40mm. I...

I can’t work out which compression elbow has been used. I’ve only removed the sink waste elbow, but it revealed a 45mm pipe - 1 3/4 inch-ish I guess. All I I can find, though, are McAlpine ISO 1 1/4”, 1 1/2” and 2” elbows. I’m a bit stumped, to be honest. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, My kitchen waste pipes have finally disintegrated, after 20 years and lots of football strikes. I thought I’d take the opportunity to colour-match them to the grey soil pipes, etc, but there’s too much choice online for a DIYer! It’s all push-fit currently, except for the compression...

Wouldn't the fact it opens pretty easily to waist height and can open higher and remain there, mean it's simply not tensioned enough? I'll certainly get someone in, if I need to, but I hoped I could retension it.

Sorry for the delay. I've liberally applied the chain lube and it now opens to the top, but as soon as I let go, it falls back to its previous height. The torsion spring continues to rotate and the cable supports wind around the cones, but it won't hold. I've noticed that one of the...

Thanks. Would 3-in-1 white lithium grease be just as good?

Thanks, I'll give it a go. The thing is though, I've tried to push up the door and it does lift a little, so it doesn't look like anything is actually stuck. I wondered if the coil spring hasn't been sufficiently wound, meaning it uncoils to its rest position before the door has fully...

My garage door is a steel up and over one, but which I don't think was ever properly fitted. It doesn't open fully and I often bang my head on it. It seems as if the side rollers are supposed to slide to the top of the guides, which would lift the door up to the horizontal position, if it...

Sorry for my ignorance. Is your advice to apply a 'wet' mix of sand & cement (ready-mix bag maybe) to the cleaned surface of the potholes, but not fill them entirely, and then once set, wet the new concrete surfaces and fill the remaining voids with a dry mix, which I would sprinke with...

It certainly looks like the current driveway surface was added to an existing concrete one - it definitely feels like concrete underneath and sounds like it when scraped. Apologies - the original photos weren't clear. I can't cut out any sections using a circular saw as it's a bit...

What is best way to repair multiple potholes and full-length (left to right) cracks that have opened up in a driveway? The depth of the holes is 2 - 5 cm and the largest hole is about 25cm by 50cm. Both cracks have propagated to the brick decorative wall, though the cracks have been stable...