plumbing

I’ve attached a photo. The top square chamber is the existing brick manhole. The lower muddy hole with water is where I excavated down through clay soil. After removing the clay, I hit solid concrete, and my pipe runs underneath it. My questions are: - What is the correct way to create a new...

I am rerouting some 15mm cold water copper pipes under my suspended timber floor. As I am running insulation between the joists, I have found the best way to route these would be through ventilation openings in sleeper walls. I am planning to lag the pipes and support them with talon clips...

I have been renovating my ground floor bathroom and while taking the walls back to brick, I found my mains pipe buried in the wall, going up to the eaves. This prompted me to follow the layout of the mains supply and found that although it starts at the ground floor, instead of supplying the...

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 removed the two screws from the threaded brass piece (which were in the two holes on the sides). I can now twist the brass piece but the tap twists with it. I was wondering what I should do next and what tool to use. Thanks for any advice!

I have a Worcester Greenstar 4000 with a Worcester Greenstar Mini Magnet Filter. I was trying to clean the filter by first opening up the bottom nut to drain the water out but, this ended up being really tight and I ended snapping the nut in two, with half of the nut still in the filter somewhat...

I'm about to undertake my first partial bathroom renovation and I'm trying to see if I can tidy up some of the old pipework. This is a first floor bathroom. Directly under this bathroom on the ground floor, there is a utility room with sink and washing machine in it. I have a downward sloping...

I'm a builder and have just been out to a family members house about an aco Drain that keeps getting blocked. They've recently had the garden done by someone else and they installed an aco drain along the back of the house. It keeps getting blocked to the point where it's overflowing and causing...

Hi everyone - sorry if if this post doesn't comply with forum rules, I'm a first-time poster here! I've just moved into a new house which has a Victorian-style bath shower mixer mounted above the bath on the wall. There's a constant, fairly heavy drip coming from the spot, which shifts to...

Hi all, just created a page to ask a question! We have just bought our first home and are very happy. However the neighbour has told us that the bath fell through into the kitchen a while ago and that was the reason they renovated to the standard it's at now. There is a brand new kitchen and...

Can anyone see where this piping is wrong? The w/m waste overflows from time to time. Also comes up Can’t empty sink while washing machine is on. Any info advise much appreciated

trying to get rid of an air lock in our boiler after emptying central heating system and looked in the airing cupboard at this setup . the alarming thing I found was going up into loft at the F&E tank expecting to see the cold feed being a 22mm ... but its only (equivalent) of 15mm - I say...

Hi we're getting our floor tiles done in the downstairs bathroom soon and we wanted to replace the basin with a corner one, but the waste pipe is a problem. Is it possible? without having to cut a hole through the middle? Corner Unit

I have two radiators that I need to install in slightly different locations to the originals. The cheapest quote I have had is £1,150 with me supplying the rads myself, which is unaffordable so I want to explore doing the job myself. The flow and return are in concrete screed. I have excavated...

Hi, I have a very old bathroom with a very old central heating system, back boiler in living room with hot water cylinder upstairs and cold tank in loft. Currently, the bathtub and toilet are tank fed, and the basin cold is mains fed. I am getting the bathroom ripped out and replaced. What...

Hi I have an issue with this shower bath mixer set up. The bath filler is continuously dripping, but when the shower is turned on or the outside hot and cold taps, then it flows more like a continue stream as opposed to a drip. Why would this be and what can I do to fix it? thank you

Hi everyone, The inlet valve in my toilet flush system is faulty and leaking water constantly no matter how I adjust the screw. Most likely worn out I'd rather not change the whole system as I'll be refurbishing the bathroom in less than a year. Would anyone help me source the right item to...

Morning all, I'm looking to replace my close-coupled toilet during the bathroom remodel with a wall hung toilet, using the Geberit Duofix element for wall-hung WC, 98 cm. I had a plumber around to quote who reckoned you would not be able to fit it to the existing soil pipe and it would need...

Hi there, we had an emergency plumber come round as flooring guy cut a pipe by mistake when laying flooring. During this time the emergency plumber mentioned our unvented water tank doesn't conform to building regs. He said the pipe coming from the water tank to the drain was a plastic one and...

Hi, I want to replace my kitchen tap as there is some severe limescale damage to the hot/cold taps causing leakage and I want to put in a new unit. As you can see from the picture the arrangement is the hot and cold inlet connect to flexible hoses, which then connect to an isolation valve...