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Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste product may become a by-product, joint product or resource through an invention that raises a waste product's value above zero.
Examples include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardous waste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others.

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    Combined bath/shower wastes

    Hi. If I want to connect bath and shower wastes so they come out of the same pipe to the soil stack, what size does it have to be? 50mm? I've read that I need and anti-syphon valve too, as the shower waste run will be over 2 meters, under the bath. Do the bath and shower wastes have to be 40mm...
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    Are all 90mm shower wastes compatible?

    Looking at using the Mira Flight Safe shower tray, which comes with a badged Virquin Twisto 90 trap. Just checking the reviews for this trap and they are generally terrible and so I am considering alternatives, as there is no possible adjustment in piping once the tray is plumbed in i.e. if I...
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    Basins with push button wastes not emptying

    Hi, I have purchased a new build property, which has a family bathroom, cloakroom and 2 en-suite shower rooms. All 4 basins have push button wastes in the basins. The 2 en-suite basins have a problem…. Waste push button is up, so open. Run the tap and the basin starts to fill even though the...
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    Weird looking shower wastes in all 3 showers.water not running away quickly

    Hi All, not sure if anyone seen these wastes before? We have them in all 3 showers in our house we just moved into and they water seems to drain slowly from them. Just never seen these shower traps before. Any ideas of how I can unblock or should I put some liquid drain unblocker down.
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    82mm underground pipe - 2 x 40mm wastes

    Hello New to this forum, the last few days I have been constantly surfing the web looking at how to rectify my pipe problem. I have a kitchen waste pipe which is 40mm that goes out through an external wall into a orange open PVC pipe which measures 82mm internal diameter which is of a open end...
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    Advice please - Joining 2nd bathroom wastes to existing?

    Hi all, I'm in the planning phase for some house alterations and would appreciate any advice concerning the plumbing installation for an additional 1st floor bathroom. The images attached show the existing layout and new layout proposed. In summary, I want to build a second (first floor)...
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    Backnut brass wastes vs top screw version

    Wednesday: my day off. I've long been fitting the brass bodied type of waste with the loose overflow connexion and backnut in the belief that they would have superior flow to the plastic-bodied type with a set-screw down the middle that holds the two halves together. Today I removed the...
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    Problems sealing wastes on vanity basins

    I have recently fitted three vanity basins at my daughter's house and in every case have had a problem sealing the waste to the basin.I have used the washers supplied without sealant and all three have leaked. To remedy it I used Basin Mate ( I think that's what it's called) which basically is a...
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    Putting wastes in concrete floors... properly

    Feel free to mock me for my lack of knowledge, but if you can provide any advice whatsoever, it would be most appreciated as I want to learn which is why I'm asking these questions! When laying a waste pipe in concrete ground floor as a retrofit (for e.g. a shower tray), I can see see potential...
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    White strainer wastes

    Hi guys, been asked to fit x2 white strainer wastes on a kitchen sink. Where can I get good quality ones? seen a few online but don't want to risk ordering rubbish.
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    Coonnecting sink/bath wastes into soil pipe

    My son is putting in a bathroom upstairs in a small victorian house. A plumber has installed a soil stack, and wc connection a while ago, but we now need to connect up a sink waste and a bath waste into that soil pipe. Where the waste pipes would naturally come out of the wall around floor...
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    Sprung bath wastes

    I've only installed a couple and not for people I've heard from since. Done loads of basin ones. Jamming up aside, anyone know if bath ones are less reliable or holding water in? Got a woman who says last plumber tried two diferent types and both - after only being in for a short while - no...
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    Moving a toilet with an AAV on a floor-exiting soil pipe

    Hi all, Picture available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l3k899oghtfbuad/IMG_1414s.jpg?dl=0 I'd like to replace this toilet with a close-coupled unit further to the right (so I can actually open the door...), while reducing the boxwork (particularly on the left hand side) as much as...
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    BLANCO waste.. Help please

    Fitted a Blanco sink, it obviously came with a waste kit but I can seem to source a trap that fits onto the blanco waste kit.. Would I have to get this from the company itself?
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    Combine wastes into yard sink

    Hi everyone, need some advice on how best to manage the sink and washing machine wastes in my back yard. The black pipe is the gutter drainage from the roof, keep getting moss etc in this so I'm planning on fitting a gutter guard. When the grate gets blocked the other wastes are all flowing...
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    need a really shallow trap!!!

    intalling a rounded top bath and had a chrome pop up wate kit for it as it is all exposed, now my problem is that a standard bath trap wont fit as from the bottom of the 1 1/2" thread to the floor i only have around 45mm of a gap ( much to small for a standard trap) any of you have an idea...
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    bath and shower wastes, combined washer?/

    Hi chaps, I am wanting to know the names of the washers you get with some traps. Like shower traps where it is one unit that seals the top and bottom of the bath, shower. The reason I ask is because I have had a couple of wastes lately that had these and I have not needed to put silicone on...
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    Leaky bath waste

    Afternoon chaps. Righto, had quite a few leaks from my bath as of late, fixed most of them and then traced another puddle to the waste. I've had a good go, but know these can be troublesome from some searching. What I've done is stripped it all apart, cleaned it, re seated the chrome drain...
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    Pop up basin waste

    Had today to repair leaking pop up waste on plastic vanity basin. The customer says was done before by a n other. The problem is the over flow is a banjo type, meaning tail of waste is to short to attach to pop up part on other side of over flow and use washers. Does any one know of a pop up...
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    Wastes through joists

    Hi all, Thought I'd ask this in the Arms cuz if you follow building regs to the letter I don't think you can do this but... Can you run an inch and a half waste through normal floor joists with a fall for a shower tray? It's probably only a couple of metres from the proposed shower trap to the...
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