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Recent content by Ric2013

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    Can somebody please point out the issues with this installation, thank you

    Hope it all works out for you, old chap. All I can suggest regarding the loft is try to limit any air from your house from getting up into your loft e.g. draft strips around your loft hatch and seal around any holes through your first floor plaster ceiling (like your plumber probably hasn't...
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    Can somebody please point out the issues with this installation, thank you

    I must say I would not have carried out that installation and been happy to leave it like that. I know this is an old thread, but I wish to comment for future reference as this is my industry and I would find it deeply disappointing if this kind of standard became acceptable. Whoever installed...
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    DT20 room on DT11 system - would this work?

    I have an existing customer with a room in which the existing radiator is of sufficient output, but there are French doors and it really needs some heat on each side of them to avoid a cold area on one side. We have established (by experiment with a small oil-filled radiator) that adding even a...
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    Utility kitchen waste pipe into external trap.

    Is it a done thing, you ask. I'd say it is a done thing. After all, plenty of houses use internal SVPs. You'd be creating a stub-stack (which doesn't always need an air-admittance valve). Document H of the Building Regulations gives quite clear examples on how to detail this. I'm not sure...
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    Good reliable side-entry valves

    I'm removing my recommendation of the Torbeck Ecofil. Last one I bought was made in Turkey instead of UK, quality had gone down the pan, and, in any case, I've since learnt that my water company considers the Ecofil to have a submerged inlet and therefore unable to meet the requirement for a...
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    Toilet waste small drip leak - plumbers mait not working

    You could wrap it with insulation tape to make it wipeable (you might even be able to fix the leak with insulation tape if you are skilled and nothing is moving. Ditto for duct tape, but probably harder to use. You can get self-amalgamating tape, but expensive in the quantities you'd need...
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    What valve is the flow

    I usually put the air vent where it is more likely to be accessible. Which usually means nearest the entrance. Now I wonder if I've been doing it wrong... but no doubt I'm not the only one so rules of thumb may not always work.
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    Toilet waste small drip leak - plumbers mait not working

    You could try making a bandage with a strip of cloth smeared with silicone sealant to make a form of sticky tape. I suppose if you then smeared the cloth with silicone after it had set, you might even make it reasonably hygienic in that you would have a smooth, wipeable surface.
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    Toilet waste small drip leak - plumbers mait not working

    I think you have some kind of ribbed insert that isn't quite where it should be (or needs replacing) and I'm not quite sure what I'm looking at. The bit on the right is logically a painted pan connector, but almost looks like a bit of cast-iron in this photo. It seems to insert into a piece of...
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    Have you ever / would you ever; Work for a Plumbing Supplier / Plumbing Wholesaler

    I never have, but if it were a decent place, not too corporate, perhaps a good independent, I could see myself doing this. I've worked in a food wholesalers and my family ran a small retail shop for nearly 80 years, so it wouldn't be an alien concept to me. I quite like looking after...
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    Taps: quality tiers?

    Grohe used to be great 50 years ago. In fact, my dad's flat has a number of Grohe items of this age still in use, though a more recent Grohe replacement only lasted ten years or so before a crack developed in the casting (unless it was leaking from day 1: I noticed, my dad didn't). But the...
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    S-traps self Syphoning

    Not that I am aware. I think as long as you test that it works when installed and there remains a minimum of 25mm trap seal then you're okay. However, if you look at ADH, it does show all basins discharging horizontally or at a slight angle which implies that that is how it should ideally be...
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    Adverts getting in the way of a supposed forum

    It must be hard to manage the business side of this forum. I'd imagine the major cost of running it is the result of use by the general public, but those of you who are here regularly and contribute to answering the many DIY questions for free may object to paying £20 a year (seems a lot when...
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    Condensate Pipe installation

    If rainwater pipe discharges to a combined (foul and surface water) sewer via a rainwater drainpipe trapped at the foot to prevent the escape of sewer gasses then an airbreak should probably be there to comply with the boiler manufacturer's instructions (if the drainpipe blocks, the boiler would...
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    Cannot undo supatap washer

    Gotcha. Yes, I was trying to remember how a Supatap worked as I was typing. :)
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