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Hi - we live in a fairly small 2 bed property - we would love to move but the cost off moving to a 3 bed property is outside of our budget at present. So we want to convert our loft. At present we have 1 (main) bedroom that is 11ft x 10ft6 and then the second bedroom which is 6ft6 x 10ft6 -...

My house is a Victorian terrace built in 1869. In the middle of the house there as two 4.5" brick walls that run from the ground up to the upstairs ceiling but not through the loft to the roof. Between the two walls is the stair case. on the ground floor the two walls both have doorways at...

I really hope someone can help me out here as I’m going round in circles driving myself (and my wife) mad! I am just about to tile our bathroom (floor to ceiling) and this means tiling over various different surfaces from old to new. These include marine grade ply, plasterboard, plastered...

Yeah I thought the button so I tried with the button of and the cable 'relaxed' makes no difference. It does that these units don't get the best reviews, so may be I am better of just swapping it out for a better one - which is annoying as the unit supplied should be up to the job, but it just...

This is the Torbeck: http://www.heatandplumb.com/images/opella/main_product_ADP301.jpg I fitted the rubber washer inside the cistern between the valve and the cistern, this was secured with the large plastic nut. Finally the cistern was fitted to the pan with the large foam washer...

I have just fitted a brand new toilet & cistern that came complete with Torbeck Fill & Flush valves. As I was assembling the cistern I thought to myself these valves look rubbish, cheap, flimsy. Anyway got it all installed and noticed a slow constant trickle back into the pan. No matter...

Sorry - yes there is an RCD on the Consumer Unit master, and each circuit has an MCB. No you can't touch any of the existing copper pipes without lifting the floor and pulling the side of the bath off. Although you can touch braided flexi pipes to sink and toilet, but these are on the end of...

In my experience the most likely cause of the JIT pulling up an assertion error is when the code is trying to access an object that does not or no longer exists at runtime (or possibly extended beyond the bounds of an array) either way its most likely lazy coding! :roll:

Following on from a previous post... I am putting a new bathroom in and copying the previous connections. So there are two 15mm copper pipes feeding hot and cold which come from my combi boiler where everything is cross bonded. Where these pipes enter the bathroom they transition to plastic...

This seems like my best option. So my FloPlast pipe will be ok into the coupling on the top of the access pipe? even though the manufacturers are likely different? It will seal again ok? Just worried about pulling the old stuff out spending ages put in the new to find out it leaks on this joint.

So If I pull the top section of the joint shown in this picture out and replace it with a new piece of black pipe with a chamfered end using lube when inserting it will seal again ok? The joint was probably first made in 1998 so it’s been undisturbed for 14 years? If so how do I separate the...

Just following on from this... I have noticed that a lot of the joints on sale such as elbows, T pieces, etc... have double entry so that would mean one side is always wrong? Also when running a short piece of pipe between two connections (say 500 or less mm) does taht mean I have to a long...

if i pull the grey pipe apart at one of the couplings could i then push the black pipe back into the old grey coupling or will it not seal? Failing that could i not use solvent to bond a joint?

whats wrong with this: http://www.screwfix.com/p/black-double-pipe-coupler-sp105/47977

can you use those above ground?

Yet more soil pipe questions! It seems my original plan won't work as the pipe exit through my outside wall is only 7 inches from the soil stack (centre to centre) and I an not find any means of making the connection. The guy at the plumb store suggesting running along the inside wall a...

seems to go into concrete

Its grey plastic. I am unsure of the brand but it seem sto be 110mm. I want to fit 110mm floplast black using a coupler http://www.screwfix.com/p/black-double-pipe-coupler-sp105/47977 between them. is that going to be ok?

i am about to cut my soil stack at about 1 meter high. and then replace everything above this point. my question is joining the new pipe to the old pipe. I have bought some floplast pipe and notice it isnt quite teh same diameter (a few mm dif). Can I push the old bit of the pipe into the flared...

If i replace part of my soil stack like for like as part of moving my WC do I need to building regs involved / tested? When done the stack will be identical except the current t for the WC will be 180 round so the WC will connect from other side. I was planning on replacing the stack from...