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First time posting, but I've got a problem with a drainage pipe. This is a picture of my sink drainage, currently blocked because the drain on the left keeps pushing silt. Now, the drain on the left I've no idea what it's for, as its not connected to anything (as far as I can tell, looks to...
I have a problem regarding a toilet install I went to fit the toilet and I could not remove the old one from the waste pipe
I live in a flat and there is no real access to the soil pipe stackI tried budging with the oil wrench type of tool but seems solid
Cannot just cut it back because the back...
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Previous owners had their washing machine plumbed in underneath the boiler and we’re looking to do the same. My best guess is that they’ve used the cold water pipe circled in red for water in, and then just stuck the waste pipe from the washer into the open pipe circled in blue.
What...
Hi Community,
Excuse me if my technical language isn't up to scratch but im a keen DIYer and not a professional.
I'm renovating an old Victorian house (pre 1850's) and currently installing a new kitchen into what was an old snooker room, which means all of the services to this part of the...
I'm trying to combine the 2 waste hoses above to connect to the horizontal waste pipe in pic. I found this twin-hose connector: https://www.screwfix.com/p/mcalpine-twin-hose-connector-40mm/206hr
but it says it has to be installed in the vertical position, as in the product shot.
Is there an...
So I’m about to fit a new kitchen in my flat I just need to know if the system I have in mind will work so I’m here for HELP!!! I’ve made a sketch so you might understand my intentions and what I’m wondering is:
Will it work? Is ok to have 2 p traps in one line? If this is garbage what should I...
Hi plumbers!
Total novice here, which am sure will become clear. Currently living on a Scottish island where tradesmen are as rare as haggis in the wild, and appreciate some advice please.
The previous owner had a new combi boiler fitted and removed the old washing machine. As per pic the...
Hello, redoing our bathroom and hoping to shorten the 4 inch waste pipe so that it end in the corner. It doesn’t seem to go anywhere just to the end of where it’s been boxed in. Does anyone see any issue with me shortening it to the corner? Or does it have to be a certain height? Want to cut it...
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Noticed a leak coming from soil stack as currently exposed. Cut a hole through a floorboard to check it out. And the picture is the result. Think it has been leaking for years as when I exposed the soil stack there were a bunch on argos catalogs mopping up the drip.
Best solution...
I have three questions regarding extending the bathroom waste pipes in a 1950s local authority-built tower block.
The original waste pipes are all copper and run to a steel soil pipe. There is also extra copper piping connected to what I'm guessing is an air-inlet pipe.
At some point, a new...
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I have a gutter downpipe with an OD of 64mm which ends above my garage floor hence the water runs over the surface as the nearest drain is about 3m away however there is a smaller size waste pipe near it which runs to the drains and has an OD of 43mm and it is welded to a an elbow...
What minimum gradient could I get away with for a 40 mm paste pipe? I believe the building regs state a gradient of 1-in-6.
Due to various constraints, most of the pipework I plan to install will have a gradient of no more than about 1-in-12. Would that be sufficient to allow the waste to flow...
I'm installing a "hockey stick" trap to take the wastewater hose from an AEG L7WBG751R washer-drier. The 40 mm wastewater pipe comes through the wall at a height of approximately 40 cm from the floor. The vertical height of the trap is about 60 cm, meaning the top of the trap where the...
I'm taking a 40 mm plastic waste pipe through an internal brick wall into another room. What is the correct diameter core drill bit to use? I read a 52 mm core drill bit is required, but I wanted to check before shelling out on one.
Hi, I got a situation where the previous owner has installed shower trays on risers in the upstairs bathrooms. It's a pitched roof and the ceiling in the bathroom slopes downward towards the outside. Behind this lower part of the wall in the Combes are all of the services (Electricity, Heating...
Are there companies who can clean out waste pipes to showers and basins which are not blocked but very gunked up? Most only seem to deal with blocked soil pipes. I've inherited an old house where the water drains away slowly and the bits I can get to are thick with black slime, hair and sand. I...
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I have a normal size, raised shower tray with a 90mm trap, with what looks like flexi waste pipe.
The pipe then runs through my ceilings out into an external hopper then down into the main waste.
The sink in my bathroom seems to also be connected to the waste of the shower too...
I’m trying to tighten the plug rocker on a bath waste pipe as its a bit loose. I can’t see thats its tightened from the back so i’m guessing I need to remove the chrome rocker. There is 1 fixing inside that i can get to through the hole, which i’ve removed, but i cant see any others inside and...
Ripping out a Champagne bath from the 70s in a renovation.
Here is a pic of the abomination behind the toilet.
I measured the outer diameter of the waste pipe going into the concrete at 133mm (5.25 inches)
Either I have:
A - Measured it wrong
B - Or this is a defunct / old waste pipe...
Hi all,
I have a blocked kitchen waste pipe (shared by the sink, dishwasher and washing machine). Water was leaking out underneath the cabinet at the concrete floor level. I have dismantled the cabinet and PVC waste pipes down to the hole in the concrete floor. The PVC pipe just came straight...