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I want to make a built in bathroom cabinet that also boxes in a toilet cistern. It will be floor to ceiling so the base will get wet when the floor is cleaned. I really don’t want to use normal furniture board. Melamine backed chipboard does not last very long in the wet conditions. I can’t...

I am looking at installing a wall hung toilet. There is an 80mm void between the tiles and the brick wall behind. Tiles are on a plywood partition. The bricks are suitable for anchoring the steel frame, there is enough room for the soil pipe, however the 80mm void is not enough space for the...

I have a Triton power shower thermostatic. (Pumped mixer shower fed from immersion, not instant shower, no heating element) The shower started tripping the MCB (not the RCD). Trip happens when the isolator switch is closed, before shower is turned on. I took the cover off and there was black...

I am replacing an old vented direct hot water cylinder. Old clyinder measures 900mm high 550mm diameter (including insulation). Can't measure the actual cylinder due to the insulation. Feed tapping is 150mm off floor. The new cylinder is "Gledhill Replacyl Stainless Steel Vented Cylinder 900mm x...

I have a vented direct (immersion only no boiler) hot water system. Old pipes are all 22mm copper. Now need to replace the cylinder. I am wondering about the material compatibility of the old copper pipes with new stainless cylinder? Can I just put in the stainless cylinder as a direct...