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Hi All, about to replace a tap, I've done a few in my time but never looked like this. Are these brass fittings push fittings? As they appear to go onto plastic fittings? How do I get them off? And how do I get a flexible hose nut type fitting back on to the water feed?

Hi All, can anybody please help me out with toilet waste measurements and what sizes I need? I've ripped out an in-wall toilet as it's been nothing but agro since we moved in nearly 4 years ago, and I'm buying one of these...

Hi All, ivw done a bit of DIY plumbing throughout the years and never have i had so much hassle as i have today. My wife purchased one of these https://www.bathroommountain.co.uk/santorini-anthracite-flat-panel-heated-towel-rail-650x400mm-33178?_br_psugg_q=santorini It didn't come with valves...

Hi All, we purchased a house 2 years ago and have gone to replace the existing cooker hood and having issues with meeting the Building Regulations and Manufacturers recommendations. Link to the hood we've purchased at bottom of post. Problem. We have a gas hob and therefore the minimum hood...

Hi All, can anybody please help me to solve this puzzle? Replacing cooker hood. Existing round flex connected to existing hood was only 2 core and had no earth. New Hood is only class 1 (Bosch!) and requires an earth. I have a 13amp Fused Spur above the cupboards (see picture) and this...

Hi All, I would be really grateful if somebody could help me out on this as it's doing my nut in! We are replacing our cooker hood, and have found the house builder used the white plastic type of tumble dryer style flexi pipe through the wall. The external wall in the masonry is 120mm, however...

Hi All, I need to fit a couple of angle brackets to the below aluminium track on the top of my campervan, and will then be fitting a slotted channel to the angle bracket, and then running 2 x slotted channels off of of that slotted chanel running to another slotted channel on the other side of...

Morning All, we moved into a newish house nearly two years ago, built approximately 12 years ago, in Scotland, timber framed, with plastic piping, apart from near boiler, and under kitchen sink etc, and possibly other sinks (I haven't checked yet as all the other are all wall mounted and...

Hi All, I've put a new sink and taps in and plumbed it all in tonight. However, I put PTFE tape with a bit of joint compound over both the hot and cold feed joints, and when doing the hot one I think I may have overdone it with the PTFE tape.... I did it up by hand approx 4 turns and then...

Hi All, I've purchased a campervan and replacing the leisure battery with 2 x AGM Leisure Batteries 150Ah each wired in parallel therefore retaining the 12V (for the habitation area I. E to run the fridge, lighting, TV etc, which are all 12v appliances). The van also has a 230V Hookup point on...

Hi All, noticed wet mark on bathroom ceiling and thought roof was leaking. Went up to the loft and its the cooker extractor fan ducting thats come away from the roof vent and loads of water trapped in it and escaping from the ducting which is of the standard cheap white stuff. It had just been...

Hi All, after some advice here, moved into a new house last year and already had to do quite a bit to it and looking at a touch up job to last approx 2/3 years. I've only ever done tiling on a concrete floor, in my old house, was a concrete floor and the tiles were still fine 20 years later...

HI All, further to my previous thread, I've now got the flush valve removed and taken to plumbers merchants and also phoned Siamp (a user previously said it's a Siamp) only to be told both by Plumbers Merchants and Siamp themselves (their Technical Department) this afternoon that it's not a...

Hi All, these forums have been really great in the past with some plumbers really helping me out, and I've now got another problem. The house we moved into last year has the cistern enclosed in the wall It intermittently, when flushed, makes continuous noises that occur every few minutes and...

Hi All, firstly Merry Christmas to all and apologies for posting a Need Advice post on Christmas Day. However..... Purchased a new house this year and I've pretty much been flat out replacing things due to leaks in bathrooms etc since moving in. Just spent the last few weeks before Christmas...

Hi All, our oven has packed up and just purchased one of these being delivered on Tuesday. https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/cooking/ovens/bosch-serie-4-mbs533bs0b-electric-double-oven-stainless-steel-10175678-pdt.html However, the new oven is 32amps and needs to be hard...

Can anybody please offer some advice on this issue? I will try and post a picture below. I'm having problems finishing Laminate flooring at an aluminium door threshold of a set of French Doors (double doors with a side panel of glass on each side) , think it's an old door, and the aluminium...

Hi All, I'm fitting laminate flooring and need to fit a floor plug socket. I've got the old laminate up now, and there's two holes in the main flooring boards and I can see about 2ft of crawl space below it. I was going to spur off from one of the wall sockets, however there's also wiring...

Hi All, I've spurred off a garage socket and run another T&E out of the socket via the conduit connector, up approx 6ft of 20mm conduit, and then cut into the conduit and fixed a T Piece to run along the wall, then around an elbow and back down the wall to a new 2 gang socket. To summarise...

Hi Guys, I think this will most likely be a bit of a pointless post, however will post anyway just in case I'm missing something!! I want to install some outside wall lighting, and will be breaking into the existing lighting circuit in the garage, to spur off to a switch and then through the...