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I bought a great gizmo in the USA its a tiny fitting that turns your hosepipe into a jet wash. It cleaned up my friends driveway of years of dirt in a jiffy. So I bought one, only problem is it wont fit on a British hosepipe :( Is there anyway I can connect it to our size hosepipe do you...

The inlet valve in the toilet cistern is quite noisy so I would like to change it for a fluidmaster. I have replaced an inlet valve before, only took about 10 minutes and was very easy but I was simply changing like for like so didn't have to change any pipework. This time I will be removing a...

Have 4 of these sitting in my shed £30 each plus postage or £120 the lot and I'll pay postage.

I have moved into a new house recently and yesterday I noticed water on the bathroom floor. On closer inspection I noticed it was a leak from the toilet waste pipe connector. It looks like a bad job. The pan outlet is 80mm, but the soil pipe is also 80mm and not a standard 110mm. Whoever fitted...

Don't suppose anyone out there has come across this infuriating company who uses non-standard sized immersion elements in their unvented cylinders? The thread is (I think!) 1 3/4" BSP where a standard one is 2 1/4". Given that I can get hold of replacement elements from PTS but they are £50...

I have a customer with a mobile dog grooming van. The tank she uses to wash the dogs has a union to connect the hose to, the tank is American made. This union looks like a 3/4 thread but it is not quite a 3/4 thread. It looks the same size but the thread is slightly different. This union is...

Hi chaps i hope someone can impart a bit of advice to me. Spent all all morning trying to fit a cast iron rad. All corners nicely sealed except one which has a very very slow drip. Have tried compounds, ptfes, lsx etc has anyone else got any ideas as it's driving me nuts. Thanks as ever matt

Hi, I plan to rerun some pipework in my bathroom. Currently the cold water is from the blue plastic Marley pipe as shown in the pictures. I am wondering what kind of fittings I should use to connect the Marley pipe to standard 15 or 22 copper pipe. It looks the size of the Marley pipe is...

Hello guys just a quick question my dual flush button is broken as you can see the rods are broken im guessing this is the reason why lol. what part is required for replacement i was looking on good old ebay would it be this one : E4448AA type Ideal Standard Genuine Twico Geberit Push BUTTON...

Is this a standard flu for a baxi?

Hi, I was changing a syphon on an old Ideal standard close coupled toilet yesterday and had a slight problem :90:. Due to the shape of the cistern none of syphons I had onboard would fit so I thought I would take the cistern with me down to my merchants to get one to fit. After getting a...

I was in the suppliers the other day and they were telling me that there best selling boiler is the vokera compact se, he said by along way too. it's a stack em high and sellem cheap sort of a place, so he's not caring what he's selling as long as there selling :shades_smile: my question is, do...

Are you allowed to or is it like gas if you decommission it then you have to replace it with condensing?

Hi All, I know that similar questions have been asked before but I have an additional query. I am changing my plumbing set up and had planned to use a fortic tank to supply a pumped shower for the main reason that I have no room for a header tamk. Now I can hear you all screaming don't do...

Gents I'm interested in the MHS Oval towel radiator (C/H only). I'd have it properly installed along with other work planned but would buy it online. It would replace a Steelrad compact radiator feed by 8mm microbore plastic pipes. The MHS Oval is designed I think for standard pipe sizes. Are...

Hello i need to replace a leaking tap on an old bath. The inlet centres are 160mm apart and I'm struggling to find a suitable mixer. Does anyone know of a supplier? I have tried eBay, Amazon, Plumbworld etc. Almost all seem to be standard 180mm and the distance isn't searchable on the sites...

Hi guys got mixer tap in bathroom as part of a vue suite when tap is in water is dripping under the tap where the flexi hoses go thru the underside basin hole I have plumbing cover and a company came out and replaced mixer with a cheap mixer. I called engineer and he's telling me that flexi...

Leak every time on flush no matter what. Tried: Setting valve to lowest setting New c/c kit and washer (proper ideal standard replacement, flat plate and rubber ring washer) Plumbers mait ring round doughnut Cutting thread back on fluidmaster incase it projects too low and causes splash In...

Hi chaps some advice needed please! I rent and my landlady has left me to arrange the heating refurb as a friend said he'll do it. I got home to see this gas pipe run behind my kitchen door which no longer opens fully! The "mate" said its normal for a pipe to run along the ceiling in this...

I fitted a couple of Grohe mixer taps yesterday and had to nip out to bee and poo for some 15mm/12mm compression reducers because the tap tails were 12mm conex. What's that all about? I've fitted Grohe before and they were made for 15mm, is this a new thing or has my supplier sold me some...