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Hi, I've got the old ends of pipes sticking up slightly from the floor from the old sink. It would be better if I can cut them and sink them down a bit but access is limited. Is there an easy way of doing this or shall I just find a trim to cover them? I may have to re use them if I get a...

Hi, I have my mains pipe coming into the side of my house. I am going to have the adjacent wall studded out and therefore want to hide the mains pipe behind it and put on a low profile stop tap. My question is that it is approx 10” further along the wall than needed. Is it ok to make a channel...

Hello, Firstly, if you’ve come this far, thank you! Today my family and I woke up to a few rather large wet patches in the ceiling of our kitchen and living room (both dripping slowly in to the rooms). I traced the leak up a floor in to our airing cupboard which has the boiler in. In here I...

I'm hoping some kind soul might be able to comment if this workmanship has been carried out properly? Situation is: previously an open vented system which has been converted to a sealed system (the benefits of which I'm still unclear on). As such, an expansion vessel was positioned in the...

Hi, I've recently moved into an old council terraced house. There is a downstairs bathroom that once had a shower in, but was taken out but the previous owners. Near the toilet, there is a hole which seems to contain some piping that appears to lead a few inches out to an exterior wall. On...

so it's been freezing cold and our boiler now has an L2 error and refuses to work. i assume this is because our condensation pipe has frozen. the problem is, i can't physically reach it because our boiler is in the loft and the condensation pipe runs outside the house (i.e. up near the roof and...

Hello all, new to this forum and looking for some advice (or if I should get someone in to do it) Looking to replace a single panel radiator with a Kudox type 22 double panel. The installation diagrams show the valves should be approx 85mm from the wall. The current lockshield is about half...

I've replaced my old radiators and rejigged where they sit in the rooms (two smaller spread apart rather than one huge). The existing system now has a 4m length of 22mm that feeds two radiators and just doesn't need to be that size. Would the system run better with the pipe reduced to 15mm or...

Hi all, I decided to renovate the kitchen this lockdown, it was going quite well until I wanted to put up the suspension rail for the base cabinets and accidentally drilled through a water pipe. I have shut off the water in the house and I have dug around it a little and can see that its not a...

I have a pipe that goes from my house, outside, and into a washing machine in the garage. The pipe is insulated but has frozen in the past. I though I would be smart and turn off the water from a valve in the house before the water goes outdoors. So I closed that valve and disconnected the...

Got an old stone house, other than getting a micrometer what clues give away metric or Imperial pipe. The copper looks really clean but it's been under the floor so that might mean nothing. House is like an onion, I really need to stop peeling, pulled a load of lead pipe or so at least I'll get...

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help with this. I have a radiator pipe that goes into the radiator, but just before that it splits off to a short terminated end that I assume would have been connected elsewhere long ago... this small end of pipe has some straggly 'thread' hanging off it. Perhaps...

We have just got a top end boiler, and are ready to ditch the electric shower. As such I now need to put in a hot water supply to the shower which is currently only cold only. We have no problems with water pressure which is pretty epic since we got rid of the water bottle. here is a (cough)...

Hi. Just had some repair a small leak I had on a bathroom tap - it's an awkward spot so got someone out to do it. Apparently, the washer was gone. They have fixed the leak but I have just managed to have a proper look, and it seems like they have kinked the braided hose. Should I be worried...

I am installing a new bathroom which will have a 5.5m run of soil pipe from the toilet to the stack. I am planning to turn the pipe 45 degrees immediately after the toilet, then a first run of 1m, followed by another 45 degrees, then the remaining 4.5m to the stack. This will all be with...

Hi there, I had to bleed one of our radiators last night due to it not getting warm for a while (and making a water rushing noise). After I did, when switching the heating back on the boiler pressure is at zero in the red, then the flow temperature on the screen goes from 25 degrees c to 99...

Hi All Helping an elderly neighbour of mine. When she uses the handwash basin in the bathroom (1st floor, back of house), quite a bit of water is leaking out from the exterior pipe that runs into a drain. I haven't been able to get onto a ladder to get a closer look, just got a few pics from...

I have a soil pipe that I plan to remove and I really need some advice on how best to cap it off. It's a cast iron pipe, about a meter high from the ground floor with an air admittance vavle attached. I no longer have anything going to this waste so I'd like to cut it to ground level and cap it...

Hi, I discovered some redundant pipes in the loft. They are wrapped in some black wrapping, underneath it there is some brown fabric (1st image) that is showing where the black wrapping has come loose. I was told that there could be asbestos underneath the brown fabric? I have wrapped the...

Hello Forum, I'm thinking of plumbing in a water softener myself (mainly because no local plumbers want to do the job for a sensible price). I've been advised that it should be connected to 22 mm pipes as I have a combination boiler. The existing pipework is 15 mm. I've an idea of how I want...