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Is there any reason I shouldn't use 32mm waste pipe from basin through external wall to gulley inlet. Total run under 1.5m. Other existing wastes are 40mm minimum. Thanks

Hi Hugh, and thanks for your help. I accept that a straight chamber with 45° bends at each end is probably the way to go, but I was concerned about how easily a rod attachment would get round the bends. At my own house I do have a 90° chamber (with no lateral input) that is effectively the...

I need to extend an existing 110mm combined sewer pipe, turning it at right angles around the corner of my house in order to pick up the inputs from a new bathroom. Currently the sewer starts at the rainwater gulley trap at the corner of the house, then flows about 2 metres to inspection...

Hi again all, and especially "J&K". I certainly didn't want to start an argument over semantics, and I believe I confirmed my respect for, agreement with, and thanks for the answers I received. I also know what endgrain is and why screws don't really hold in it. I avoid screwing directly into...

Thanks for that JobAndKnock. Yes, I should have realised that I could fix the hinges on the front face of the door, screwed through the Tongued and Grooved boards into the ledges on the back face. My garage doors are like that. So it would only be the hinges on full display in the hall...

I'm not quite sure which forum is right for this question. All the room doors in our cottage are traditional, tongued and grooved, "ledged and braced" (like a garden gate and not framed). They all open inwards, hung using T-hinges screwed into the "ledges" (on the inside of the door)...

Hi and thanks again for your help Madrab. I will test the flow rates achieved when I can next go to the house: my daughter has just tested positive for COVID, so she must self-isolate, and I will have to wait until she is confirmed as COVID free! I’ll just have to get on with fitting the new...

Hi Madrab I should possibly have said it is my daughter’s house, parts of which date back to the 1600s. Most of the plumbing is in more modern parts of thehouse, dating from extensions in the 1980s and 2000s, but some of the pipe sizes and routes cannot easily be checked. Yes, I would ideally...

The water system in our house has been modified several times over the years, and we now want to add a bath to the downstairs shower room. The rising main (pressure about 5 bar) runs in 15mm from stopcock to the kitchen, the utility room, the upstairs bathroom, then back downstairs to feed (in...

Thank you, thank you, thank you. That is exactly what I thought - but most published diagrams show zones around basins (600mm splash zones, or jet cleaning zones), and I feared the zones were being applied more widely than specifically listed in the regs - by a process of analogy and as good...

Thanks again for your help - and yes it’s a 6A MCB. For the bathroom, I assume it is OK to mount the fan and 3 pole switch side by side in the boarded loft above the bathroom ceiling. For the downstairs toilet of 0.8x1.8m (not 1.6 said before), I assume the bathroom zones would apply. Few...

Thanks for that, and no - The MCB is probably 6A. I was away from the house when I wrote my post, and rather guessed what it was - (I’ve been turning it on and off for several days now, and I know it is one of 3 or 4 lighting circuits with lower ratings than adjacent socket circuits). I was...

Thanks - I’ll go for that! My local Tile dealer wants me to clean them right back - but it takes ages. I’ve had to do other things for a while, but will be back on the tiling soon.

I am installing two ventilation fans with timers in a RCD protected lighting circuit (5A MCB) covering 3 rooms (bathroom, toilet, utility room). The fans are an inline Manrose MF100T for the refitted bathroom; and a wall mounted Manrose XF100T in the new downstairs toilet. A sparky told me I...

I have to relay ceramic tiles (330mmx330mm) in a hall to correct a slight fall (15-20mm) in floor level across the room. Don't ask why, just accept I have to do it! I have removed about 20 tiles, soaked them in a water bath for a few days, and then cleaned off about 4mm of tile cement from...

Thanks for those comments. Actually, our work is also on a listed building (from around 1690, and based on a cruck frame) - I did say there was more to the story! However, we are focussing on an old lean-to byre that was improved over the years and eventually opened up to the main cottage just...

Thanks for those comments. The design load on the trimmer “double-beam” is just under half a tonne, so that’s just over 200kg on each bearing end - but in practice I doubt that even half of this load will ever be reached. The wall is actually the inner skin of a cavity wall, but there is a...

Our chippy has chocked up the ends of the double beams (2 of c24; 170x47mm, bolted together) around our new stairwell with a short small softwood wedge (about 30mm wide) banged in between the middle of the beam pair and the next brick below in the supporting internal brick walk. He has now gone...

Our chippy has chocked up the ends of the double beams (2 of c24; 170x47mm, bolted together) around our new stairwell with a short small softwood wedge (about 30mm wide) banged in between the middle of the beam pair and the next brick below in the supporting internal brick walk. He has now gone...