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  1. tomtom1

    Stopcock in dining room wall or under boiler.

    We have just moved into our house and are having trouble finding the water shut off valve. There is a sticker on the boiler which says '' Water shut off in dining room wall also below boiler '' I have checked all the obvious places (under kitchen sink, kitchen cupboards, floor board near boiler...
  2. J

    Pipe sticking out of the wall

    I'm in the middle of ripping ou my kitchen and there is a pipe sticking out of the wall and the hob is on the other side of the kitchen the pipe has a thread on it and the wall has a metal plate around the pipe can anyone tell me what it is thanks
  3. mgw

    TRV heads, and linking to wall thermostat?

    I have looked at a range of TRV heads costing between £10 and £60 and it seems until you buy them, you don't really know what you are getting for your money. They all use batteries, they all allow multi temperatures to be set depending on time of day and day of week. Some are direct entry only...
  4. P

    Soil pipe drop/sleeper wall.

    Hi, was after some advice on getting a better drop on a downstairs 6m 110mm soil pipe running under floorboards. Has been in since moving in and has never drained properly. Some of this I thought was due to a 5L water saving flush but as a family stuck to a number 1s only rule till I could have...
  5. J

    Boss strap on a thin wall clay pipe troubles

    Went to put a boss strap on what i thought was PVC pipe, ended up being a thinwall clay pipe. Is their any way over this apart from a shower waste pump? This is in a bottom floor flat with two flats above. Any help much appreciated. The boss strap was for a low level shower. Jim
  6. M

    Radiator removal - making good pipework in wall

    Hello everyone. Could someone offer me some advice as to how to deal with the following, please? I'm removing a radiator from an en-suite. It will not be replaced. There is speedfit micro bore behind it into the plasterwork and it may or may not be push fitted on to copper, I'm unable to see...
  7. E

    Combination tank wall mounted.

    Hi all, There’s a combi tank wall mounted in the actual flat and the new kitchen tap is higher than the HW feed from the cylinder. I’m looking for suggestions on a pump suitable for the bathroom and kitchen for the HW only. There’s only one person living in the flat so there’s no chance of more...
  8. S

    Taken boiler off wall

    Hi after advice my customer is looking to cap off main gas supply remove boiler from wall, pipe work and all radiators taken away as he is switching to electric radiators powered by his current solar panels. I'm not gas Safe but can carry out all the draning down of system remove rads etc...
  9. A

    How to remove gas fitting from wall

    Dear All, We have this (see attached) pipe fitting next to an old brick fireplace that seems to be a gas fitting. We want to remove it but don't know how. The screws holding the bracket to the wall are behind the silver fitting and are difficult to get to with a screwdriver. Ideally we would...
  10. D

    vertical waste pipe is 235mm from wall, need a WC to accommodate this

    Hi, Could anyone recommend a toilet that could work with a waste pipe that proud of the wall? Or where I might go to search for one? Cheers.
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  11. A

    Help with moving kitchen to new wall within a flat - can it be done?

    I live in a flat and wish to move the kitchen from one wall to another to make far better use of the space (essentially 90 degrees and up a bit - phot attached). Assuming of course that this is allowed within the lease, I was wondering if this sounds physically possible and a likely idea of the...
  12. J

    Moving radiator pipes from floorboards to wall

    Hello, I’d like to move the radiator’s pipes into the wall, so that they come out of it horizontally and above the skirting I am also likely to fit a wider (but single panel) radiator to better match the width of the window I think it’s better not to have any fitting inside the wall so I might...
  13. T

    Securing shower plate to tiled wall.

    Would anyone be able to suggest a way of getting this this shower faceplate properly sealed to the tiles? The rubber gasket is no longer available from Grohe and has lost its ‘stickiness’ thus failing to hold the plate to the shower wall. Of course I can try to clean the gasket up and apply...
  14. M

    Running 25 mdpe through a wall.

    Hi all, What fittings are best to run this through my wall to sleeve and seal. Do I need to make it up or is there a special sleeve. Cheers
  15. KingDoey

    Banging my head against wall with developer

    hi all You may remember sometime ago I posted about radiator leaking a year later on new build... Well the same developer has now been on my case about flow rate. It is poor on the cold services throughout. He mistakenly got the builder to fit 20mm mdpe instead of 25mm when the place was...
  16. R

    Removing wall hung pedestal

    I was sent a pic of a wall hung pedestal with a leak from behind the pedestal and was wondering if they are generally fitted with springs or bolts? I don't have a pic but there are no screw covers on pedestal so I guess it's springs. Sorry for lack of pic.
  17. T

    Snapped off shower head in wall

    Does anyone know how i solve this problem. I broke my shower head the other night while cleaning it. The metal has sheared off at the elbow joint in the wall which connects to the copper water feed from the valve. So i have the elbow joint still in place and secure, but it has the threaded bit...
  18. Scott_D

    Fitting a bath to a tiled wall

    I have been asked to fit a bath in a bathroom thats been fully tiled. Would you fit it? walk away? or say only if the tiles are cut and removed below the bath to give a standard setup?
  19. J

    Advice on plumbing Grohe wall hung frame

    I'm fitting a wall hung toilet using a Grohe frame and would appreciate advice on connecting the waste to the soil stack (to the right in the image). I am planning to connect the Grohe supplied waste (black pipe) to the stack using solvent weld pipes (don't trust the push fit not to leak) - the...
  20. M

    Back to wall double ended baths.

    Anyone fitted many of these? I am just intrested in how the bath panel usually fixes? With it being curved, is it clips on the bottom? And the wall? Thanks

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