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Hi. I am hoping someone can give me some good advice. I am renovating my house and the branch on my soil pipe (Hunter upvc 40 yrs old) is built into a dormer stud wall so cannot be removed. The small piece of soil pipe from the old toilet came out reasonably easily but the rubber seal (which is...

As the title says. I've installed a belfast sink over the weekend and the waste just keeps leaking. Firstly I put plumbers mate under the waste and tightened the plastic lock nut. Water is finding its way under the chrome waste (85mm in diameter) and trickles down the thread. After speaking to a...

Hi, I am currently fitting an ensuite to my bedroom and am running a waste pipe along the floor joints to the toilet, but on lifting the floor, I have found a 35mm black rubber pipe. Its running at right angles to the direction I am going, and I have no idea what it was ever used for. I live...

Simple question smeg supply rubber washers for cooker gas connection always used fibre any objections to rubber ?

Hey guys, has anyone ever come across a rubber olive before? Every valve I've ever fitted up until now has a copper/brass olive compression joint onto 15mm pipe but this new radiator valve that I need to use for the type of radiator I have uses rubber olives to compress onto the 15mm pipe...

Hi all - first post here so please be gentle. A rubber gasket/reducer has broken free from my soil stack, above the roof line and before the vent/terminal. It looks like a reducer/gasket to keep the joint between the larger outer pipe and the smaller diameter inner pipe water tight. Does...

I was fitting a new heating circ pump in my holiday home and both screws rung on me while doing this but managed to get the bottom one back to when it needs to get water flowing though the other side is only 1/4 turned and leaking. While going into the city to get new fittings, I forgot to turn...

Hi I'm replacing a kitchen, the original having been ripped out. On of my tasks is to install sink. The mains water s coming in to the house via a plastic pipe, then the stop tape, then more plastic pipe, before being connected to a copper pipe. Do I need to earth the sink? there is no...

My radiators downstairs all have drain points so I can empty and remove them when decorating etc. They are slightly unusual. The radiator tail has a small drain outlet with a threaded end fitted with a small cap with a rubber washer/disc in the bottom. To drain the rad, you unscrew the cap...

Hi, Ive got to boss into a 4" cast stack in the next couple of days, I've never done this before, normally have cut a section of cast out and fitted a boss pipe with ferncos or completely renew the stack in PVC. I cant do either of them in this situation and I need to use a strap on boss, am...

Hi, I am new to the forum and wondered if anyone had any advice on how to seal my new bath trap to the bath. I'm a keen DIY'er but have attended a few plumbing courses, but I have to admit I am scratching my head a bit on where to put the sealant. Its a Duravit bath and waste. There...

Afternoon ladies and gents, I've been having some issues connecting a used Bosch Classixx dishwasher to a waste spigot attached to a sink trap. The waste pipe doesn't have the usual rubber end that I can jubilee clip over the top of the waste spigot. It is hard plastic and the same...

I think I've overtightened the thread on top of the radiator. It's leaking. How do I replace the rubber seal, without draining the system?

Some dude has ran the waste from saniflo into rain water pipe and it's not a combined sewer. So I need to re do it and run pipes the opposite way to back of the house where soil is. So, old laminate floor up and run through joists. So I am thinking of using hep so no joints. I can see saniflo...

Alreet? Yeh my phone ! Any suggestions / reviews on phone cases? I'm on iPhone 4s with griffin survivor case - it's lasted 400% + on any of my last phones and I've had just about every "rugged" phone on the market for the shark fin sony Ericsson to motarola. Getting iPhone 5 for free so what...

From quite small sizes up... Plenty of online sellers but can be a ballache.

Hi there, I have a 40mm waste that is capped and sealed with a rubber adapter. I need to reuse this access point but I have very limited space. The capped 40mm pipe wont pull out of the rubber adapter or the rubber adapter from the soil stack. Are there any top tips for removing these? If I...

Hi, i would like some advice re-flexi tap connectors. Did a google search, and the feedback seems to conclude how unreliable they are. My question if they are so unreliable and prone to failure why are they on sale? are they possibly getting such bad press due to not being installed correctly...

After a bit of advice about best way of cleaning my open vented system in bungalow. There are 8 rads, s plan, Ideal Concords WRS and all rad pipework is buried in screed with gate valve and pipe leading outside to drain system on same level as pipes in screed. When I was replacing a couple of...

I called transco out to an external iron service pipe clipped to the gable end of a large property near the town centre ,the service pipe supplied gas to one meter in the building ,this pipe had been PVC sheathed but this had peeled of over the years allowing the iron pipe to corrode in various...