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    Got to be a pourus cistern or hairline crack?

    Go on then I'll post in the proper sub forum I suppose.......... Fitted a bathroom suite a few weeks ago and I'm going back to do some other jobs in a week, toilet cistern (Homebase rubbish) dripped very slightly down the thread of one of the fixing bolts, enough to see a small patch on the...
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    Quality toilet seat required

    I have an elderly customer who just wants a decent wooden toilet seat that doesn't move around when sat on. They had a decent one before, an old one from the 80's and it was very well made but had split. They asked me to buy them one (which I hate) but I went to Homebase and bought a wooden one...
    • Phil
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    • Forum: Boilers
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    Keeping powertools safe from theives

    Just heard recently about another mate in the trade who's had about £1200 worth of powertools stolen from his van, this is after hearing my sparky has had his van broke into 4 times now and lost all his tools each time. I was chatting to a neighbour today (policeman) and he said the best thing...
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    Few questions about lead pipe

    Just wondered what the most comman size of lead (hot & cold not waste) was back in the day eg/ is 7lb lead eqivalent to todays 15mm? Are there any other sizes that look the same as 7lb from the outside? Why is lead measured in weight? What is more reliable. Philmac or Ledlock?
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    Bosch Multitool packed up

    My Bosch Mulitmaster has packed up, for months now it kept going off while in use and had to be banged on the floor to resart it and now it wont start at all. Does anyone know if this is a known problem with them and how to fix it? I've had a quick look inside and didn't see anything obvious...
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    Another copper/plastic thread

    I feel I'm the only one using copper nowadays, all new houses are full of Polyplumb and alot of old boys are moving away from copper. Even though the price is rocketing and it takes longer to do I still prefer it over plastic, I fit bathrooms and do maintanence etc, if I fitted heating systems...
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    Drilling holes in acrylic bath

    Evening all, I've drilled a few bathtap holes before but I'm doing a bathroom at the moment and the showerbath has a nice flat area on the side where the taps 'should' go but they want them on the front (normal place) There's plenty of room but underneath there is an encapsulated plywood ridge...
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    Height from bath to shower valve

    I started a bathroom today and I'm putting a bar mixer over the new shower bath, I should have stood in the old bath before I ripped it out to postion the height of the new shower valve. Basic question I know but does anyone have a measurement ?, ideally from the floor. I Know baths vary in...
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    Another bodged bathroom

    I was in a newish bathroom today, the main problem was water dripping through the ceiling when the basin was used, the bathroom was put in a couple of years ago by a local guy. In the corner of the bathroom there is an inset basin set into a poorly tiled 'cube', no access panel and no way of...
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    Bathroom mixer taps do you use NRV's?

    Just wondered what you guys do when installing mixertaps regarding the non return valve/valves. Perticulary on unbalanced feeds in bathroom. I rarely come accross installations that have NRV's if at all.
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    How long does it take you to do a bathroom?

    I have been doing constant bathrooms this year, I keep saying "this is definalty the last one I do this year" but I've just taken on two more. I work totally on my own and each bathroom I take great care to get everything bang on perfect and totaly durable etc. The average bathroom with...
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    Bathroom job contracts

    I've been doing bathrooms for a couple of years now and so far I've done them with no contracst, no signatures, no money up front, just get payed when I've finished. This will have to change now (the bad people spoil it for the good) as I'm still waiting to be paid for a bathroom I did just...
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    Electric showers

    Just wanted to check on the regs regarding electric shower swaps, I'm not part-P yet but I'm still permited to swap like for like. If the old shower is running off a basic ceramic fuse and no circuit breaker etc does this need uprating first like an RCD etc?? Or does the RCD only come into it...
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    Brown water, nice!!

    I'm doing a bathroom at the moment for a landlord (strict deadline :() and there must be some long capped of pipes after it was swapped to a combi system. Everytime I turn the water back on the hot tap splutters really badly with dark brown water caused by all that stagnant water in the pipes...
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    Do you pressure test?

    How many domestic plumbers on here actaully pressure test their new pipework after fitting. If a fitting failed and flooded a customers house, will the insurance pay up? Mind you there would be no proof that you didn't pressure test.
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    Building control and new toilets

    Can someone just clarify when building control need to be told about a new toilet, addition to soil pipe etc. I've got a couple of quotes to do with extra toilets and just want to be clear regarding building control. Thanks. :)
    • Phil
    • Thread
    • control
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Boilers
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    Cast iron bath

    Is the best way to remove a cast iron bath by yourself with an angle grinder? Its just a normal fixed bath with panels, nothing fancy. I've been lucky so far as I have avoided them, basicly what is the best method from bathroom to scrap merchant?
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    How do you get rid of an old bathroom suite?

    Obviously all copper, brass, lead etc is weighed in and sold for beer money but what do you do with old toilets, dishwashers, baths etc,? my local tip is a fortune to use the weighbridge so I can't imagine many plumbers/builders use them. Do you leave it with the customer for them to get rid of?
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    Old pump acting as a restriction?

    16 years ago when we had a Plumber in to install a combi boiler and get rid of all the tanks in the loft he left the old Central Heating pump in so now we have two, one obviously in the new boiler and the other tiled over under the bathroom floor dead with no power to it. The new pump is on...
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    1/4 Turn Taps

    Are all 1/4 turn taps of the ceramic disc variety? The one I've just looked at is a monoblock kitchen mixertap with 1/4 turn between open and closed and they are not only quite stiff (so much so that one of the plastic handles has rounded splines and wont turn the valve ) but have a 'plasticy'...
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