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    Good flow rate low pressure taps

    We have a gravity fed system in our bathroom, both hot and cold fed off the tanks in the loft. We wanted to put more modern taps in. We chose some Bristan single lever taps, designed for pressure down to 0.1bar but the flow rate is really poor. The old Ideal standard ones worked really well...
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    Leaking cistern on close coupled wc

    We've installed a new close coupled wc in the bathroom. It is the type which have a rubber doughnut washer on the flush valve outlet to seal the flushing water flowing from the cistern flush valve to the pan, and two long plastic bolts which feed through two holes in the cistern bottom through...
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    Soil pipe branch pipe question

    Hi, I did ask this question a few days ago, but I wasn't quite sure from the answers if what I was doing was ok. So I'm asking again with a specific question. This is sketch of the branch pipe I am proposing to fit.This is a 40mm bath waste pipe.The total fall is much higher than the building...
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    Coonnecting sink/bath wastes into soil pipe

    My son is putting in a bathroom upstairs in a small victorian house. A plumber has installed a soil stack, and wc connection a while ago, but we now need to connect up a sink waste and a bath waste into that soil pipe. Where the waste pipes would naturally come out of the wall around floor...
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    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Boilers
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    Who puts in drains : plumber or builder ?

    My son has just moved into a victorian terraced house with the bathroom on the ground floor at the rear. He wants to move it into the room above, and move the kitchen into the old bathroom. The current bathroom has a WC with a pan going into the concrete floor, and there is a gully outside for...
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    Problem making 1inch brass female fitting watertight

    Hi, I have a couple of 1" brass female connectors on a hot water cylinder. I'm fitting 1" brass to 22mm compression fittings but I'm struggling to make the connection watertight. I have used lots of PTFE tape but it's still leaking very slightly at the joint between the female spcket and the...
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    Plastic to copper ? Compression or pushfit ?

    I'm tidying up the plumbing in my son's airing cupboard as it's a bit of a maze. and adding a new shower pump. I was planning to do the plumbing in the cupboard in copper, and the pipe runs to the shower under the floor in plastic as I have to go through quite a few floor joists. When joining...
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    Small job in Reading for plumber ?

    I'm not sure if it is enough work for a plumber be interested, but we need to make some alterations to an existing soil stack on the outside wall of a house in Reading. The wc is moving, and I've made a new hole in the wall for the waste, but it needs hooking up to the existing branch in the...
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    Radiator valve drain washer ?

    My radiators downstairs all have drain points so I can empty and remove them when decorating etc. They are slightly unusual. The radiator tail has a small drain outlet with a threaded end fitted with a small cap with a rubber washer/disc in the bottom. To drain the rad, you unscrew the cap...
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    Compression Slip coupling for 1" female to 22mm copper pipe

    Hi I'm adding a shower pump to a vented hot water system. I have an unused secondary tapping on the hot water tank, a 1" brass female fitting and I was planning to use this to provide the hot water feed to the adjacent shower pump in 22mm copper. I want to position the end of the copper pipe so...
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    Joining soil pipe

    Hi, First, I'm not a professional plumber. I'm moving a wc and sink in my bathroom, which are connected into a 110mm plastic soil pile outside the late victorian building. As the new wc is half the distance from the soil pipe than the old wc, it needs to go into the soil pipe slightly higher...
    • tonyb61
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    • pipe soil soil pipe
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Boilers
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