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Hi hope you guys can help...... I'm fitting a new bathroom suite and shower, but i have concrete floors. My old shower tray was sitting on an 8 inch deep timber frame, so as to get the height required for the shower water to run downhill ,along under the bath, then into the bath waste...

At my own house I have created a downstairs wc the soil stack is right outside where the wc is but its 3 and half inch cast iron, I will replace the whole thing when we redo the bathroom upstairs but for now I want to cut the stack a meter up and use new 110mm PVC into ground and a tee to New...

anyone got an idea of what they cost ? can't seem to find any prices online even a 3" x 2" tee

gotta cut through some cast iron soil pipe, havent done it for ages and cant rememebr what type of angle grinder blade i used, i currently have a diamond blade in there at the moment, and it seems to go through everything and anything, will that be suitable to the cast iron ? cheers

hey there fellas anyone able to advise as to whether 11/2" iron pipe can be effectivley frozen? Also who has the greatest range of transitional joints available for 1 1/2 iron to 22mm copper? cheers

Hi Have been working on a bathroom. it has two iron water pipes running into and out of the bathroom. I have removed the lead pipes that was attached to the iron with a threaded joint, I had to remove the joint completely and replace with a new brass fitting so I could then run 15 copper, my...

hi, i need a 32mm overflow and 80mm waste trap for a cast iron bath i'm plumbing in, most suppliers do the bath standard of 1 1/2" (38mm) overflow but this is too big.. I haven't been able to find any with 1 1/4" (32mm), only basin but they don't have a big enough waste trap Just to clarify...

Hi everyone - new to the forum (and plumbing) so sorry if this is a daft question... I am trying to fit a washing machine into my house, and will need to sort out a waste pipe. I have worked out that the waste pipe can go through an exterior wall, then outside there is an old cast iron stack...

Hi all, I've got to connect a new BTW pan through a 9" wall and into a 4" CI swept tee, circa 1936, via a 90 bend. Usual 30's semi arrangement. I can't use the existing connection inside the house as it's 4" lead and deformed, so I think a Multikwik shoved in will leak. My plan is to start at...

Hi, I searched the forum and couldn't find this issue discussed before, sorry if it was. I got a new (Sime) gas boiler (with expansion vessel/auto-fill) water central heating system plumbed in 7 years ago to an old 3 storey Georgian terraced house I renovated. It's a mixture of some 100 year...

Doing a quote for a saniflo and need to know if anyone knows of the best way to drill into Cast Iron Soil Pipe and best boss to use please... Thanks in advance....

I have a problem with a cast iron soil pipe in the bathroom connecting to the toilet pan and its just been pushed back in to the flange bit of a castiron soil pipe and siliconed around this has now come apart and is leaking i dont have experience of working with cast iron. one idea i had was to...

Evening all. Just had a call. Customer has a cast iron stack and he wants to branch a bath waste into existing stack. Is there a particular fitting I can use for this? Or a particular method? Forgive me but have never worked on cast iron before. Thanks in advance as always

Hi guys, am running low on all my brass. So am wondering where you all buy yours from. Like the title of my post says, am really in need of some iron to copper fittings. Anmy suggestions. Cheers guys. Also, where do you buy hep pipe from? It doesn't look like they sell it in plumbfix or...

Hot water system, valves were leaking, changed out, then bled system. All radiators worked (heated) fine, now have one that gets luke warm at top cold at bottom. Tried to bleed air but only small amount of air not alot. Both supply and return at bottom. Ideas??? Thank you.

Hi, I've come across two (live, as in pressurised) iron mains water pipes in a wall behind my kitchen work top whilst cutting the bricks to extend the worktop to the other side of the wall. The pipes are sticking up about 140mm above the bricks. (see photo) How can I cut and cap these pipes? If...

came across these pipes in a block of flats,they have a threaded boss connections ,does anyone know were to get some sort of connection to revert back to plastic waste pipe

Do they really mean galvanised steel?

Hi My 22m overflow / condensation pipe from the combi boiler is attached to a cast iron 4inch? downpipe. This has just been cut and the 22mm siliconed in. This leaks..nae surprise there! I was hoping to fit a strap-on boss but cannot find one for 22mm. Does anyone know of a supplier of one or...

I have a first floor toilet that because of joists can only go through the wall to within 100mm of the Iron vent pipe, this means i cant put a branch and a 90 degree bend as there is not enough space, Idealy i want to put the branch coming straight in to the wall with the connector inside the...