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The main water pipe coming into our house is lead which then changes over top copper shortly after entering the house. The water flow is around 12 litre per minute which has been OK for the 15 years we've lived here but we're now looking to add another bathroom with shower in the loft. I've...

It’s definitely solvent weld. Didnt know if w heat gun would loosen up the glue or not

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Hi, I’m after a bit of advice on the easiest way to replace a basin trap. The trap is one of the flexible corrugated things and must be filling up with gunk as I struggle to get rid of the smell coming from it. It connects to the 32mm waste pipe using a solvent weld coupler. The waste pipe...

Good point. Was planning on 15 as i’ve got plenty of 15mm pipe knocking about.

thanks, do you mean something like this? https://www.screwfix.com/p/compression-adapting-female-coupler-22mm-x-/81402?tc=PT8&ds_kid=92700055281954514&ds_rl=1249404&gclid=Cj0KCQiApY6BBhCsARIsAOI_GjZ5XQkxgw6gyP9nFLLbQKLdT7PYe_8LxAcB3dekhJemExKw1M15hTwaAiUSEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Hi, The internal expansion vessel on my WB Greenstar 30si has failed (water coming out of the valve) so I need to replace it. The boiler is fitted high on the wall so there's not enough clearance to pull the vessel from the back which would mean taking the boiler off the wall. The boilers over...

I did try stripping back to brick originally but they’ve been well stuck. It looked like the wall had been rendered and the tiles bedded into the wet render. Even my sds tile lifter wouldn’t shift the majority of them. The old owner had done the same in the bathroom and it took me 3 days to...

Hi, We have a lean to type porch on the side of our house. when we bought the house, part of the wall was tiled but the OH wanted it painted. The tiles were well stuck to the render so I pva'd them and skimmed over. Bit of a bodge but it's been fine for about 10 years. The OH has now decided...

Hi, I had a new boiler installed back in 2011 and some radiators replaced at the same time. The house is a 3 bed semi built onto a slope so the boiler is in the cellar and two floors of rooms above. The CH flow and return form the boiler are 22mm for the first few metres before splitting off...

Hi, I had a WB Greenstar 30si installed in 2010. It's been serviced regularly but I don't think it's ever been stripped down and cleaned. Over the past couple of weeks, we've had an intermittent problem that's getting more regular. I'd get up in a morning and the thermostat is requesting heat...

I'll take some photo's next time I'm there. It's not a chimney breast - it's the party wall between this house and next door. At the other side, there may well be a chimney breast though (in the neighbours house). there's no pipes in the wall or in the room above. The yellowing isn't what I'd...

I'm currently renovating a house. I've had it rewired and a few months ago, I plastered the chased / around the sockets using bonding and multifinish. In one of the rooms, I've had some bright yellow stains coming through the wall in patches. I've not painted yet so I can try using stain block...

Hi, I’ve fitted a couple of mcalpine anti syphon traps in the bathroom. The aav bit has a blue plastic stopper inside when i remove the cap - do i leave this in place or remove it? Cheers

We leave the window open most of the day to help dry things out which works to some extent. The culprit is the bed - it has drawers built in underneath it so there's no air circulation behind the bed. The wall behind the bed constantly feels cold and this is the area that feels damp in a...

Unfortunately, this isn't an option as we had the external re-pebbledashed last year.

Hi, My son's bedroom suffers from condensation on the walls behind his bed. The house his a 1920's semi and has virtually no cavity and we've been advised it's not worth filling. His bedroom is at the corner so has two external walls - one north facing and the other west. His bed his on the...

Its plastic pipe. I had to lift the paving slab yesterday and was shocked when to find half of it was only supported by a wall in the cellar below. There was a 2ft by 2ft hole under the slab into the cellar.

I think it is, why?

The holes about 6ft deep (its an old blocked off cellar underneath) What sort of mesh would be best to cover it with before concreting over? Thanks