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Hi I've recently posted this on other forums so if you've seen it before just ignore it! Also this is not Perth (my partner) but Justin writing, somehow the forum insists that I'm not me! Anyway...: Hi our neighbours septic tank is on our land and they have rights of access for "maintaining...

Next annoying item is : need a flexible tap connector - 500mm long 22mm x 1/2"bsp and guess what none existent :shock: so either anyone got a source or neatest way to go from 22mm hot pipe (gravity system) with 22mm isolator end waiting - to a - 1/2"bsp kitchen tap thread :evil...

Hi there, wonder if anyone can tell me what I'm looking for as I can't find it in BES or anywhere. Under the sink in the utility room the threaded sink waste (thing sticking out of bottom of sink that has plug on top) has attached to it and 40mm elbow which is threaded like a tap connector...

Hi, i have recently taken some old imperial taps off our cloakroom sink and want to replace them with some metric bristan 1901 vanity sink taps. of course the threaded tails are to short. Basically the old taps went to an elbow connecting with a threaded connection and at the other end of...

Hi, our builder has suggested we don't bother with an intermediate drain test but I really don't want to destroy the new bathroom if a leak shows up on final test and would like to check it in stages. we have just got a drain testing kit to do an intermediate test on the grey waste pipe...

Hi, have read through the priming/tanking posts and think I've got it. we have a new bathroom which has green plasterboard around the bath and a gypsum plaster skim over the top. we will have a shower going over the bath. 1. I rub the plaster down and wipe it to remove dust. 2. I paint...

Hi, Does a whole heating pipe/radiator circuit need earth bonding like the domestic water circuit or is it just pipe/rads within a bathroom/cloakroom. Many thanks

hi just stripped hideous padded plastic wallpaper off kitchen to find it had been stuck on with some thick adhesive stuff am going to try and sand this down. what is the procedure for liner pappering this wall once i have made it less bumpy? should i just size it as normal and hang the...

Hi we have an electric shower ( triton Ivory) and when someone flushes the loo it goes scalding. is this just what electric showers do or can i resolve this. want to put another shower downstairs and don't want same problem. Spoke to Mira about their thermostatic elec showers and they said I...

Hi, am replacing bathroom pendant light with safe wall light and adding an extractor fan with timer not to be connected to light so it works independently. is my best option to use a besa box and connectors in the loft above so: main feed comes in and light and switch go to 1 gang of 2...

Am I right in thinking you can't have a ceiling pendant light in any zone of a bathroom? we are converting a large cupboards into a bathroom and have added a window. Was going to use existing light pendant which it has to be said is 2.8m high so light bulb change bit of a hassle. About to...

Hi, Wehad storage heaters removed and they left one big one with the night storage component disconnected and the fan heater part still connected so we had an on /off electric heater without the storage component to use until we got wet heating in. This heater is independently wired with...

Hi, we have no heating yet but want to put pipes into bedroom to accept stelrad radiator - called them to ask what distance pipes coming through floorboards had to be to then attach a 900mm rad. They said ' same as rad 900mm its flush fitting' - this seems odd to me as I thought pipe came up to...

Hi want to run wiring for eventual interconnected smoke alarms (my building regs say have to go to mains) so I can plasterboard wall. Got 6243Y 1.0mm 3 core + e for this but need a longer length. The 3 core i got (too short) has red, black, etc cores - is this different from the 1.0mm 3 core +...

what suggestions are there for a long pipe run to a kitchen tap. We want to avoid a cold leg (or whatever you call it) but tank is at opposite end of house to kitchen tap. If we take feed from hot pipe 5 m away from tap can we use microbore to avoid too much hot water left in the run. Hot...

Hi we have a small back kitchen with a concrete floor - originally this was the washouse so i doubt it has a DPC. later they built an extension next to this room and must have filled in the gap between the new room and old room with concrete - doubt this has a DPC. Both areas are about a 1...

Can you use a lime finishing coat (as used to set a lime plastered wall) on conventional plasterboard????????? Lime is so much less of an adrenalin rush than normal finishing coats. Thanks

Hi can you help me? we are putting horizontal t+g panelling along the rafter slope in an upstairs room, then plasterboarding and skimming the walls to either side. I am stuck with the detail where plaster board meets wood panelling. 1. do we take the plaster to the panelling or the...

we are doing a rennovation on an old stone house with bit felt /sarking and slate roof. Have put insuation between rafters and now have so much condensation that it is like a frozen sheet of ice on the inside of the sarking! we are putting in slate vents at present. the inside walls...

Is screwfix copper pipe inferior to other pipe for heating circuit - it is so much cheaper - should it be avoided? cheers