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I am finally going to install the stone resin shower tray in my new bathroom this weekend. It will be installed on tongue and groove boards (well screwed down). When I have asked questions on here about securing it before, the general reply was to use silicone not cement, but when I put the tray...

Not sure if this is the right place really but the shower pump I have just installed is really noisy, I have checked that it is not vibration in the pipes, but its just the noise of the pump istelf. The neighbours have not complained yet, but the pump is in the airing cupboard which is right...

I have got a real problem with condensation on the outside (obviously :D ) of the toilet cistern in the bathroom. I do not remember ever having this problem in any of the other houses I have ever lived in. In itself not a real problem, but it drips onto the wooden floor and is starting to...

I have just taken out the electric shower I had in my bathroom and I have removed the power cable that supplied it, as there is no need for it in my new bathroom. The cable was wired into the consumer unit and had its own MCB. This MCB is now redundant, and I was wondering if it is safe to...

Hi, Just bought a Chrome Towel Rail/ Radiator, I realise all metal work in the bathroom needs supplementary bonding, but will attaching the earth clamps to the copper heating pipes under the floorboards be sufficient to earth the radiator or does the body of the radiator need its own clamp...

Hi, I asked this question in plumbing section but was told its one for the sparks! Just finished putting in pipework for new shower, need to "earth bond" it all, have bought a load of the special pipe clamps from screwfix, and have bought 6mm earth cabling, is this diameter cable right for...

I am in the middle of redoing my bathroom, I have taken the tiles off the walls and it has left a lot of tile adhesive behind, have tried chipping it off but it is like stone. I have decided to skim the walls with finishing plaster. There is a lot of boxing in around the soil stack, I am...

Hi, I am running some new pipework to a new shower, the pipework needs to drop from the attic, into a stud wall, but my problem is there is a small amount of block wall above the stud wall. I want all the pipework hidden in the wall, the part in the stud wall will not be a problem, I...

I need to install a pump in my airing cuboard for my new mixer shower. The instructions says that it needs to be wired to a 3 amp fused switch, my question is there is already a fused 3 amp switch in the aring cuboard that is for the central heating control box (or what ever it is called), can I...

I am trying to install a surrey flange on my hot water tank for my new shower. I thought I had done everything to drain the water from it: I have held up the ball cock on the cold water tank in the attic so no more water can come in from rising main. Turned on all the hot water taps in the...

Hi, I am installing a mixer shower and I am going to take the cold supply from the cold water tank in the attic. Have bought the 22mm tank connector, the pump and shower instruction recommends that this outlet is approx 60mm lower than the existing cold water outlet for the rest of the house...

Thinking of using copper pushfit joints like these ones http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/sea/searchresults.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-8&q=straight+coupler+22mm+push+fit&pn=1&pd=1&pi=1&cn=1&cd=1 to connect the straights for the new runs to my shower which will have a 1.5bar pump on it and to the...

This is probably a really stupid question, but I have just bought a close coupled toilet, and it has no hole for the waste pipe. Had a look through installation guide, and no mention of it, does it not need one??

Hi, took the good advice from my last post and have been to buy a showerforce pump ready for when I install my new thermostatic mixer shower. I hope someone can help me with my question, my shower instruction manual for the shower says that the pipe runs for both hot and cold should be 22mm...

My bathroom is 1.65m x 2.52m and I want to install some low voltage halogen downlights instead of the horrible strip lighting we have at the moment. How do I work out the level of lighting needed for a room that big? The pack I am looking at buying is a set of 5 25w downlights, will this be...

I am just about to put in all the pipework for my new shower. The shower will be on a gravity fed system. I will be making a connection to the cold water tank in the attic for the cold and I am going to use a surrey flange connection to the hotwater tank for the hot. My instruction manual for...

I am installing a thermostatic mixer shower in my bathroom and getting rid of the bath. I have a cold water tank in the attic and a hot water tank in the airing cupboard. It will be easier if i explain what I am thinking on doing and hopefully someone can say yes that is right!!! or oh my...

Hi, I am planning on redoing my bathroom and installing a shower, which will involve a lot of new copper pipe needing to be installed. I have seen these push fit connectors in the local DIY store. Are they any good? The shower I am looking to install is a thermostatic mixer shower, possibly...

I am just about to re-do my bathroom, I have just read that for a 32mm waste pipe it should not be more than 1.75m in length from trap to soil trunk, and if using a 38mm waste pipe you must not have a run greater than 2.3m. Why is this? I wanted to move the sink, which would make the waste...

I have just bought a 800x800 quadrant shower tray, the flooring in my bathroom is tongue and groove boards. Can I grout the shower tray directly onto the floor boards, or will I need to replace that particular area of floor boards with something more sturdy like marine plyboard??? Thanks :D