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I've recently had new double glazed uPVC windows installed, and since the old sash and case windows were so rotten they stripped out the whole frame with the rest of the windows. The old lime plaster on this wall basically fell off on its own after decades of damp/neglect by the previous...

I had a peer down the cast iron pipe. It goes down about 70cm and then turns at a right angle. There's concrete covering a large area around this pipe with scaffolding over it right now, so It's hard to dig down and get a proper look. Plan is to break up the concrete and resolve any other...

Great, thanks!

I've recently removed an old and cracked soile pipe from the rear of my house, which I had planned to replace with a nice new PVC soil pipe. I pulled down the cast iron pipe leaving a stump at the bottom to join to. However, I hadn't realised when I got the new pipe that the diameters weere...

I'm looking for a new shower tray, but unfortunately I'm having to be quite specific with drain location due to the way my joists line up. I spotted this one from April Products, which would be ideal in terms of waste placement and overall size (1500x900mm). I notice Aquadart do an identical...

My lack of plumbing familiarity is showing! Thanks for the info. I'll look into anti-vac traps, didn't know they were a thing either.

I'm rearranging my bathroom and trying to plan my drainage so I was wondering if it's okay to join the sink waste to the soil waste coming from the toilet (blue line below), since that's the nearest point of drainage. I'm creating a stud wall (90mm thick) so there's decent space within that to...

Thanks for your reply. I was planning on removing the whole stack since I think it's pretty old and failing at various points. Fortunately I have scaffoling up for some roof work as of today which will make that much easier, so thanks for the tips on how to actaully remove it. What do you mean...

I'm planning on moving the toilet in my bathroom along a bit from where it currently sits, but I also need to move my soil pipe vent since it now comes out too close to my new loft velux window. Because of this it I think it makes sense to just move the soil pipe hole to where the new toilet...

I've just ripped out the 1st floor bathroom in my 1920's terraced house in the UK which invovled replacing a floor joist that had rotten at the end. It sits in the brick wall at either end so I've been able to level that and get it to the height of the neighbouring joist by packing slate...

Thanks for your reply! For the soil pipe, I think I may bite the bullet and move it externally. It's 100 year old cast pipe which needs replacing anyway. I may end up having to move it too because the current pipe is vented within a metre of where I want to put my loft conversion window which...

Bit of background... 1920's mid-terraced house in the UK I have purchased as my new home, needs complete renovation and upgrading. Construction wise, it's got cavity walls, single brick between neighbouring houses. Bathroom had previous long-term leaks which caused rot in one of the joists, so I...