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Hi all, I recently found a very small leak in the gas inlet/isolator valve to a friends Baxi Bahama 100 boiler along with water leaks both sides of the double check valve in the fill loop and at the boiler's mains water inlet valve. The water leaks were no problem to fix but the gas leak...

Hi All, I want to fit a weather bar to a friends wooden back door and I would like to know the best way to fit it. I've seen them fitted so they fit between the door frame uprights leaving a small gap between the ends of the bar and the frame but I've also seen them fitted where the door...

Hi All, Any body know how straighten an exterior door that has dropped at the lock side. The door is timber with 9 small glazed panels in the top half and 3 long vertical ply(?) panels in the bottom half. I want to raise the lock side by about 6 to 7mm. The top rail (transom?)joints to the...

Hi All, I've been a bit of a nob and made the chases for too deep. God knows what I was thinking about, I should have known better but the damage is done. javascript:emoticon(':oops:') See drawing. The walls are internal 100mm light concrete blocks (Thermalite) & the occassional LBC...

Hi All, Does any one know of a supplier/manufacturer of 22mm compression X 1/2 inch BSP female isolation/service valves. I don't have enough room to install normal reducers and 22mm x 22mm or 15mm x15mm valves. Cheers

Hi All, I'm re-modelling our bathroom, en suite and installing a shower in our ground floor toilet/cloakroom. I've run low on money so I'm just concentrating on getting the shower into the ground floor toilet/cloakroom but eventually I'd like to have a shower in the en-suite and bathroom...

Hi All, Hope someone can help with this problem. I'm in the process of revamping my downstairs toilet and installing a corner shower. Due to subsidence of a one piece concrete slab, which made made up the hall and toilet floor the project has been beset with problems. The walls are...

Hi All, I'm replacing the concrete floor in my ground floor toilet, as the original one had subsided. I've come to the stage of either laying a 60-65mm screed or timber finish and would like some reassurance and guidance on what I'm thinking of doing. The room is big enough to fit a corner...

Hi All, This might seem a silly question but when installing insulation for the sides of a new concrete floor, how far up the slab should the insulation go - level with the top of the slab, level with the top of the screed or somewhere else? Regards.

Hi All, Anyone know of a manufacturer of a 110mm boss pipe similar to the drawing below? Thanks.

I've applied some Visqueen double sided DPM jointing tape to a new section of Visqueen DPM that is going to be used to extend an existing DPM. The problem I've got is the backing paper will not come off the tape and Visqueen technical services have been about as much use as a chocky tea pot...

Hi All, I'm replacing the concrete floor in my shower room/toilet. The floor's had to be replaced as it had subsided (poor oversite). I'm using polystyrene sheet (jablite) to insulate the floor with the dpm on top of the insulation. The final layer of hardcore has been finished off...

Hi All, Can anyone advise me if there is a minimum distance between multiple boss connections into the soil stack where they all enter the stack on one side? I want to connect 2 x 40mm (1 x 40mm for double kitchen sink and 1 x 40mm for dishwasher) and 1 x 32mm (for hand wash basin) waste...

Hi All, Please could someone give me some guidance on what to cover a new 100mm plastic soil pipe with. The pipe will be running below the insulation and through the hardcore underneath a new concrete floor. The pipe runs internally along side an outside wall, is about 1.8 metres long...

Hi All, I've got to replace some of the plumbing waste pipes in my place as part of shower room/toilet refurb. I'd be really grateful if any of the plumbers on this forum could cast an eye over my design (see photo). Apart from the soil pipe all the pipes in the 'Shower room/toilet' area of...

Hi All, I'm replacing the concrete floor in my ground floor toilet. Where the soil pipe went through the old DPM there was just a hole cut in it, roughly the size of the pipe and that was it. Our local Building Control want a sealing collar installed that sticks to the new membrane and the...

Hi All, I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem I'm having overlapping a new piece of DPM with an existing one. The concrete slab shown in the photo's had sunk due to settlement of its deep (90 to 100cm) reject stone foundation. The area of slab and foundation from where the...

Hi All, I'm replacing the concrete slab floor in my downstairs cloakroom as its foundation is settling causing the slab to drop; about 40mm so far and still moving. I've removed the old slab, replaced its foundation with well compacted rubble and I'm almost ready to pour the new slab. The...

Hi All, Anyone know if it is possible to get a 40mm plastic waste pipe fitting that is essentially a cross tee but with the side entries at right angles to each other. This type of fitting could be fitted tight in room corner or in my case allow two sink wastes to connect at 90 degs to each...

I'm in the middle of modifying my ground floor toilet, moving the toilet pan and hand basin positions. The toilet pan is not a problem as it goes back into the position it was about 4 years ago, the hand basin is where I've got an issue. There is a 110mm horizontal soil pipe laid in the floor...