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Hi there Our plumber had to cut a chunk out of our skirting to stop a leak in a pipe. It’s quite a hole and pretty scorched. See pic. He recommended we fill with heat resistant filler - see photo. Sand and paint. Should we just pump filler into the hole and smooth it out? Or leave a gap around...

I am currently renovating a house which is running a vented back boiler system for the central heating and hot water. This is being removed and I want to have an oil Combi installed (professional install) but I want to do the pipe work with in the house my self. There is already an oil tank...

Hi. Digging the front for a path here and discovered this which has ruined my plans today. What is it?! Drainage? Gas? It looks like it's been lopped at the top (badly) and filled with cement. I need to take it down a bit lower but I can't really without knowing what it is. As you can see it's...

Hi All! My first post here.. I need some help from someone who really understands central heating systems, pipes and radiators. New boiler installed My 20 year old Ideal Mini boiler finally failed in December with no hot water and it was leaking all over the floor. It turned out it would be...

Hi All, I have my washing machine connected to the pipes under the sink, however there is a pipe on the right, which leaks water when I wash the dishes. Does this need some sort of cap? I feel like it was fitted for two appliances however I only have a washing machine. Thanks.

Hi all, not a diy /build expert at all however I have a question regarding putting a toilet in my detached garage… I need to run a soil pipe down my driveway (20/25 foot) The drive will need to come up but I just wondered could one of these moling machines be used to run the pipe or is it not...

Hello, we have a radiator in our living room and would like to add a second. The photo shows the piping going into and coming out of the radiator. From feeling the order that the pipes heat up I think I’ve figured out the direction of flow which I’ve marked with red arrows. Would this pipe...

Hi All Considering re-tiling the pathway at the front of the house however before putting anything new at the surface we want to make sure whatever is below is sound so we don't have to break the new if we need to fix the old pipes later. We lifted the sanitary cover and saw the below photos...

Hi, I have recently moved house and I want to screw in a large set of bookcases into my bedroom wall. The problem is that through the wall is the bathroom and I am worried about hitting any pipes. I dont have any family members to ask for advice and so I thought I would ask here to make sure. As...

Hello. So currently I am excavating the foundations for a cavity wall garden office. Unfortunately my drain pipe runs at an awkward angle at the corner of where my foundations would be. My initial thought was to excavate the foundations deeper and pour the concrete below the pipe, and then...

There is a plastic pupe running up the corner of my living room that is chased into the dot and dab wall, it was almost at the surface at the top and caused a big crack. I’ve repaired the crack for now with toupret filler but I’m wondering if there is a stronger method I can use where it is very...

Evening all. Just wondering if anyone can give me an idea what these pipes may be, please: House built c1905. Concrete floor (rest of the house has floorboards). These are within a kitchen cupboard that is against the party wall, roughly opposite the original kitchen back-door. The...

Hi, I would appreciate your opinions on the best way to proceed with the waste pipes in my bathroom. I've attached photos of the current layout inside and outside. As you can see everything at the moment is lead, which I guess means it was done 50 or so years ago. Pipe 1 is from the basin and...

My gas meter has lead pipes coming off it. I need some work doing, but new regulations say that lead pipes cannot be connected to copper pipes. My boiler however has copper pipes coming off it. So, somewhere the copper pipes must have joined the lead pipes before the law made such connections...

I'm putting a washing machine waste on the old sink waste 32mm spiggot/push fit collar on the soil pipe. It looks like the old sink 32mm waste going into the soil pipe was cut to length with a broken roof tile, so the seal is shot. The seat in the old grey 32mm collar is different, so a new O...

Is it ok? What's it like to solder? Can I put a compression fitting on it?

Hi I have metal gas and water pipes with an Earth bonding cable going from my consumer unit to my copper gas pipe near the gas meter. The same Earth wire comes off the gas pipe to my copper water pipe. My water stop cock in the kitchen does not have any earth bonding cable. It looks difficult...

Hi just wondered if this was normal busy painting the kitchen cupboards. I've removed the dishwasher piping but noticed when we run the tap in the sink water is coming out the dishwasher pipe, if we run the tap slow it's fine and doesn't overflow out. Is this normal as that would mean the...

Hello all, I've had a leak with the shower fitting which, which is now resolved. However I had to smash out some tiles to expose the piping. I noticed that my stack pipe is filthy, and wondered why it is has these rust trails (image 1 & image 2). I'm wondering if this is an issue, I'm guessing...

Hello I was looking for the stopcock. I could not find it. However, I found this in the cupboard below the stairs. Can anyone advise me what it is. I guess it is something to do with the water supply