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A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo 'foot of a stall') or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase, and of a column in architecture. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles. In civil engineering, it is also called basement. The minimum height of the plinth is usually kept as 45 cm (for buildings). It transmits loads from superstructure to the substructure and acts as the retaining wall for the filling inside the plinth or raised floor.
An elevated pedestal or plinth which bears a statue and which is raised from the substructure supporting it (typically roofs or corniches) is sometimes called an acropodium. The term is from Greek ἄκρος ákros 'topmost' and πούς poús (root ποδ- pod-) 'foot'.

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    Mdf bath panel with plinth?

    Hi folks Do you guys fit your own timber panels or get a chippy in? A lad I know has fitted one of the mdf panels with the 100mm skirting trim using 2 battens either end of the bath. Customer is refusing to pay as it bows slightly when touched. Do you guys build a frame if you do it...
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    Making a plinth for a pan to sit on

    Old cast soil connection is too high for modern pans and re-doing soil run connection to stack not desired by customer (or by me for that matter.) Current toilet pan is on a plinth anyway (he'd never even noticed!) I have a few pieces of 25mm marine ply kicking round which should do the trick...
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    Installing new plinth heater 10mm pipe

    My house is fitted with 10mm pipe for whole heating system and I am putting in new kitchen so a plinth heater is the way to go. Chosen a smiths over myson as most people recommend it. Question is to join heater I need 15mm so how close should I be before upscaling pipe. The heater is bigger than...
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    Can you make neatly cut plinth for a WC pan with just a jigsaw?

    As - apart from a multi-tool - I have no other wood cutting tools. Thanks
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    Toilet outlet height : soil pipe connection height will be level

    In the middle of replacing low level toilet (there for about 30 years) with close coupled loo. The pan outlet is about 350mm distance to the soil stack on a 90 degree bend to the left Just discovered that the original new toilet I chose the pan outlet is lower than the soil outlet. It will...
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    Shower plinth advice please

    So I looked at a job earlier, the plumber who ill (?) has made a plinth fit the shower tray to sit on - it wood. Looks ok. My question is, how do you secure to floor / walls? It's got wooded strips along bottom. Floor is wood ply
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    Teeing of 10mm feed(!) currently supplying plinth heater

    I'm doing a garage conversion and need a new radiator in the new room. The most accessible/convenient pipes I have found are 10mm feeding a space saving plinth heater. I know that the best solution is to tee off the main feed from the boiler as running 2 rads from a 10mm supply could give...
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    Toilet plinth

    I have a toilet which sits on an ugly mdf plinth which protrudes 2 inches around the base of the toilet. What's the best way to make a plinth? Wpb? And how do I make it look like part of the pan? Some pvc or something? I know some of you guys would have had to do this before. Cheers fellers
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    Toilet plinth fraction too low?

    Hi i need to change two loos from wall hung to floor standing. (Our water is VERY hard and they leak all the time with no access to sort them out without demolishing the wall). To line up the new loos with the waste pipes (which can't be moved) I need plinths of 80mm. The nearest available...
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    Heater in plinth

    Hi, I am redoing my kitchen and will not have wall space for a radiator. It is an open plan room so there will be radiators in the living room. I am a little concerned that the kitchen might feel cold in Winter so trying to decide whether to fit a heater in the plinth or not. I am...
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    Plinth heater quandary

    Hi all, I am looking to put a plinth heater under the kitchen units, but the only pipe work that is available are the main boiler pipes. The pump is in a cupboard upstairs, after my proposed connection point Can I use these. And will it work if I just wire it from the time clock , and controlled...
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    Heating in Kitchen - Microbore - rad or plinth heater.

    Hi , there , I'm looking for some thought on the following :- 70's built bungalow / suspended wooden floor with a 10mm microbore sealed heating system, originally installed off an oil fired rayburn in the kitchen ( in it's day the only source of heating ) but now powered by a...
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    6mm radiator pipes to 15mm plinth heater???

    Hi all, Am renovating kitchen at the moment and looking to replace an old radiator with an underplinth radiator to save on space. The current radiator pipes are 6mm (yes double measured with calipers twice as surprised me!). Any ideas how I can get this to connect to 15mm underplinth heater...
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    Kersan Basin - Leak

    Afternoon All We brought a house with a Kerasan wash basin, from what I can find on the net they are a fancy Italian designer basin that have no install instructions but lots of glossy stuff!!! As I sat watching TV the other night and my wife was upstairs water poured through the roof at a...
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    Vertical Rad Gurgling and top half only getting hot. Plinth heater luke warm too

    Hi there, please go easy on me first post! We have just had a new kitchen extension and have got one normal double rad, a smiths ss5 plinth heater and a tall vertical rad. It is a big room with a vaulted ceiling so it needed a fair bit of BTU's to heat it. The normal rad is heating up great, but...
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    Plinth Heater Pipework Run

    Hello I am planning on fitting a Smiths SS5 hydronic plinth heater in my kitchen. The central heating system currently only has a radiator in the living room and the rest are upstairs. The tails to the radiator downstairs are in 10mm microbore. The radiator is at the opposite end of the...
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    new wc needs plinth

    Evening to the Forum. Customer has asked for an old Fordham to be replaced. The new wc's spigot is lower.What do other members prefer for the plinth, W.B.P or M.D.F ? Thanks, Dean.
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    Plinth heaters

    I'm first fixing a job and the customer is having a plinth heater in the kitchen. I have never fitted one before. It's going on a combi system. Is it just a flow and return connection? cheers
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    Plinth heater

    what do you lads think of these, the type that are connected to the heating with a small fan on them not the sole elec ones ? I'm thinking of connecting it to the wiring centre so it will come on when the zone valve opens. Do they throw out alot of heat ?
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    Plinth Heaters

    Hi we have a really cold kitchen and no room for a radiator so are thinking of a hydronic plinth heater. The kitchen is 25m3 Has a concrete roof which is insulated has granite tops and backs has ceramic tiled floor Should we buy Myson or Smiths and can you recommend what size we need? Thanks
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