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    Gase Safe person in Slough needed!!!

    Friends If anyone is gas safe and wants to do a job in Langley, Slough please contact me ASAP. Ther'es a Potterton Promax HE plus boiler that wont fire up. The story is my custard drilled a hole through a heating pipe and the system went all over his living room carpet!! lol!!! Anyway, i...
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    Pipes in walls

    Hi Friends So, got to put some 15mm pipe in a wall for shower feed and also rad. Wall is brick. Do I need to sleeve pipes? Also, after fitting is is best practice to sand / cement over even if tiles will go on top? Thanks all RCT
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    Call out - microbore pipe

    Hello Friends Got a call out tonight to a chap I've helped a couple of times. He put a drill through a pipe, charged him £50 call out (8pm in a Friday). Living room carpet soaked. Anyway, I cut the wall open and it is microbore grey plastic pipe. I can see the whole so I just need to cut...
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    Bar mixer shower

    Hello Friends I've go to take off a bar mixer shower and replace it. Landlord doesn't know make, its a cheap one I think!! So, the pipe centres should be 150mm. I've seen showers with +\- 5mm. Anyone know of one of these that are cheap? I'm talking £40 or less? I can't trust the chap who...
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    Toilet

    Hi Friends Got a toilet that flushes and fills perfectly but it does not flush waste away. I'm perplexed . No blockage, no back filling. Any thoughts? The flush is powerful. Cheers Rct
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    Toilet inlet valve

    Afternoon Friends Well, waste of a day today. Went o change a toilet inlet valve. Done 15 odd this year so comfortable in doing them. Get to the flat, an Arab answers in full regalia. Rude as you can get! So, look at the toilet, no water coming in, i get a new valve (fluidmaster £9.89...
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    Bath tap issue

    Morning Friends I've got a bath where the taps are located along the length of the bath at the rear, so they're against the wall. I can't obviously get anything under to change the taps. am I being stupid or in this scenario does the bath need to come out? Thanks Rct
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    Kitchen sink blockage

    Hi Friends How's your weekend? So, got this kitchen sink blockage. Owners put one stop down it, not fixed. I took all the plastic parts off, clean as a whistle, put a wire spider thingy tool down the waste pipe, went in about 1-2 meters, prodded about a bit, nothing came out. Still blocked...
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    Shower plinths

    Friends How do you fix a shower tray to a shower plinth? A customer has a cracked tray and want it replacing. It's a square 800. It sits on a wooden plinth. The legs can be lowered to loosed from tile line and waste undone etc. It's a plastic tray. Are they stuck on or do they just sit on...
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    Tax questions

    Friends I have some tax questions that you may or may not know! Here goes:- 1). I believe you can carry a loss forward to the next year. Any comments? 2). After being employed and now self employed, if someone makes a loss can they claim against their previous years income tax for a rebate...
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    Armitage Shanks Close coupled toilet

    Hi Friends I have an Armitage Shanks close coupled toilet that I need to fix a leak from the donut washer. The wing nuts are rusted and will not move! Before I get to it I wanted to ask whether the rubber washer is the same as an Ideal Standard one? I got caught out before and the plumbers...
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    Access Training

    Hi All Got an email the other day from Access Training offering gas training in classroom, portfolio with gas safe bod, exam preparation and portfolio assistance etc. also guaranteed job on a 3 year contract, £750 per week within an hours drive of home location. £3995 in vat. i requested copy...
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    Heat wave & work

    Hello Friends Haven't been here for a couple of weeks. So, the weather is too hot, the plumbing jobs are just luke warm and so I am taking maintenance/gardening jobs in my area now. I am still looking for a plumber (experienced) to give me a hand with gaining experience as I have turned a...
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    toilet donut washer

    Hi Friends I fixed a leaky toilet today (hoorah)! The toilet was leaking when flushed, loosening and tightening the nuts didnt cure it. Took the cistern off and removed the donut washer, perished. 53 years old! So, off to the plumbers merchants, got 3 donuts and none of them were the same...
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    Changing mains stop tap

    Friends Had a chap on the phone who wants his main stopcock changed as its leaky. He has said a plumber went there and the water couldn't be turned off in the road so the plumber went away never to return! My question is, if you frezze the pipe underneath the stopcock and then loosen and...
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    Gas Ch no hot water but now OK again - any thoughts?

    Friends Did a gardening job today, yep, no plumb or anything near at the mo and getting so doing gardening and handyman. Anyway, lovely lady, said her daughter had no hot water but then came out to say it was fixed?! Strange I thought, shes got Gas CH, said boiler working, I asked if...
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    Bosch multi tool

    Hi Friends If anyone has time please can you comment on this Bosch multi tool? It's what I am thinking of buying to do grout removal job next week. I will need to buy grout removal accessory too. Bosch 0603101970 Lithium Ion Multi Tool - 10.8V. Thanks as always Rocket.
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    Nabis 49 flush valves

    I just got three of these for £24 on ebay. I paid £16 in plumbcentre for one on Tuesday. There are a few more left if anyone interested with free shipping. New in box. Cheers
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    Plumbing fittings on van

    Friends I'm going to spend some cash and buy some fitting to be kept in van. Any suggestions as to what you use most for domestic jobs? Do t want to waste my cash with things that'll sit there for years! Thanks Rocket
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    Bath taps won't budge!

    Friends, went to see a chap whose bath taps wanted changing. Got bath panel off but the plastic back nuts would not budge. Tried box spanner, grips, basin wrench, adjustable and used all my strength, I think they e been siliconed on. i need to go back for him, I will try to cut the off. Any...
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