I had to repair some bodged work at my stepson's today.
----------- ignore the rant if you want
His bath had been leaking at the trap and draining very slowly.
After removing the build up of tile adhesive from the trap (deposited their by the RatedPeople thieving d!ck of a "builder") I decided to check the state of the solvent weld pipe that runs in a boxed section section to the basin and then on to the soil pipe.
All of a sudden the pipe came free of the basin tee join.
No option but to lever of the tiles on the box section. They came away quite easily, infact too easily. It seems that Toby Smith of Harefield, who claims that tiling is his forte, doesn't realise that plasterboard needs to be sealed beforehand..
The fact that the plasterboard was damp helped a lot...
I then discovered that someone (not sure who) had never glued the pipe in to the solvent weld tee. Which explains why it fell out.
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Not having anticipated the need for solvent weld, I didn't take any with me.
Being a Sunday, and being in an area that I don't know, I decided to check the websites of the main retailers, namely, Wickes, Screwfix and Toolstation.
All of them sold solvent weld adhesive, none of them sold the cleaning fluid.
In the end I went to wickes and purchased the adhesive and a bottle of Evostick adhesive cleaner.
Is the general consensus that you don't need to use the cleaner or has it become a "restricted" product?
----------- ignore the rant if you want
His bath had been leaking at the trap and draining very slowly.
After removing the build up of tile adhesive from the trap (deposited their by the RatedPeople thieving d!ck of a "builder") I decided to check the state of the solvent weld pipe that runs in a boxed section section to the basin and then on to the soil pipe.
All of a sudden the pipe came free of the basin tee join.
No option but to lever of the tiles on the box section. They came away quite easily, infact too easily. It seems that Toby Smith of Harefield, who claims that tiling is his forte, doesn't realise that plasterboard needs to be sealed beforehand..
The fact that the plasterboard was damp helped a lot...
I then discovered that someone (not sure who) had never glued the pipe in to the solvent weld tee. Which explains why it fell out.
--------------- end of rant
Not having anticipated the need for solvent weld, I didn't take any with me.
Being a Sunday, and being in an area that I don't know, I decided to check the websites of the main retailers, namely, Wickes, Screwfix and Toolstation.
All of them sold solvent weld adhesive, none of them sold the cleaning fluid.
In the end I went to wickes and purchased the adhesive and a bottle of Evostick adhesive cleaner.
Is the general consensus that you don't need to use the cleaner or has it become a "restricted" product?
