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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I’m just checking the earth bonding in my bathroom.... There are two copper pipes coming into the bathroom for hot and cold water. These then connect to plastic pipes, and every connection to a tap or shower after that is by plastic pipe. We have a stainless steel bath, with chrome mixer...

Hi All, I'm refitting my bathroom and taking the opportunity to change things about a bit. What this has meant is the WC has now moved diagonally from one corner of the room to the other. At present the soil pipe goes straight out through the outside wall, turns left and runs along the...

I am planning on fitting a new plasterboard ceiling in my bathroom and thought I would take the opportunity to replace the ageing lights. I would like to fit 4 x low voltage downlights each with an individual transformer that will be concealed within the loft. As these are low voltage and...

I have a baxi duo tec 28 that has been working well for 3 years, but recently developed a leak, that turned out to be a loose connector and baxi fixed it. Now however it seem to be loosing pressure taking about 5 Hours to go from 1 Bar to E119 code (i think its this code - low pressure). It...

I am fitting a new bathroom, which will consist of a stainless steel bath, chrome plated taps, shower etc... I will be using polyplumb plastic pipes and fittings. Obviously I need to earth bond all of these items, what is the best way to do this? Do i need to tie anything down to earth...

I am fitting heated towel rail into my new bathroom. Obviously I will be getting the correct building regulations and ensuring it and everything else is correctly bonded out. The cable from the heater element is quite short, maybe about 2 feet long. I would like to fit the switch to activate...

I have recently moved to a new house where some work has been carried out in the loft. This includes moving and reinforcing the roof supports, strengthening the floor joists, flooring and fitting a velux window. Infact pretty much a complete loft conversion except there is no staircase to go up...