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    Bathroom Flooring and Wall Advice

    I'm in the middle of refurbing my bathroom, I have removed all the plasterboard, back to the stud work and also lifted up all the chipboard flooring (22mm), this is a small ensuite bathroom (3mx2m). My plan is to fit new flooring, 18mm WBP and then 6mm Hardie backer board to the floor, planning...
  2. C

    Looking for the size of the bathroom tap valve

    My bathroom tap is dripping water, I want to change the tap valve, but I don't know the valve size, if somebody familiar with the type of tap, please tell me the valve size. Thank you in advanced.
  3. R

    Downstairs Bathroom - Sewage smell

    Hello, We have had a bad sewage smell coming from the downstairs toilet for the last few years. We had a new suite put in back in 2019 which didn't resolve the issue. The smell seems to be coming from the sink side of the room. I have removed the sink unit now and can see that the waste pipe...
  4. dilligaf

    What size bottle trap for bathroom basin with a O/D 36mm waste pipe?

    Can anyone tell me what size bottle trap for the basin in the bathroom for a 36mm O/D waste pipe? Most bottle traps seem to be listed as 32mm or 40mm?
  5. G

    Hot water to all of my house except master bathroom

    I have a Vaillant ecotec plus 838 boiler and yesterday morning I used the shower in my master bathroom and it was working fine with plenty of hot water, however that evening I went to have a shower and there was no hot water, so I tried the bath and tap in that master bathroom and there was no...
  6. L

    Bathroom sink very slow drain mystery

    The bathroom was refitted 10 years ago. Everything was fine until a couple of years ago. The basin is very slow draining and you can see the water coming up from the P trap and then filling up the basin. I've tried drain unblockers etc. and also put a hose with a snug fitting nozzle into the...
  7. Z

    Bathroom refurb

    Hello. I've just started to do some ground work for a full bathroom refurb in my house. I'm looking at replacing the current laminate flooring with a tiled floor. Looking under the floor I've found that the area under my bathroom seems to be from where all other pipes branch from. All the...
  8. D

    URGENT Smell in Bathroom?

    I have a recurring bad smell whenever I use the bath or shower. It's not all the time it takes time to build up and then when you get home from work you can smell it when you open the front door. It doesn't smell like farts, it smells like some sort of chemical and spreads through the flat.
  9. M

    Bathroom fitter needed in Ealing area.

    Hi all. Hope you are keeping well. I have an old client in the Ealing area that wants the bathroom done starting at the end of July. If anyone is keen pm me and I can give you his number. Thanks
  10. J

    Bathroom on same level as tank

    Hi, about to plumb my first house so I'll likely be flooding this site with questions. Hope that's all I'm flooding! They've bought a bungalow and turned it into a mansion but there's no attic, so the Cold water cistern is behind a wall on the second story. Thing is there's gonna be a bathroom...
  11. D

    Bathroom Sink Coupler Down Pipe Issue

    Excuse me for my lack of knowledge in this but i'm a first time buyer so this is all very new to me. Last month i moved into a property in SE London which seems to have developed a bit of an issue since the weekend. The back of the bathroom sink isn't connected properly - as you can see in the...
  12. H

    Bathroom Waste Layout - Horizontal Soil Pipe

    Hello, I would very much appreciate some help/feedback on what I am proposing for my very small ensuite bathroom. While refurbishing it I’m proposing to add a shower. It’s just 1.2m x 1.6m. I have seen similar posts to this on the forum but not quite my situation. I am proposing to run one...
    • HowardS
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    • bathroom pipe soil soil pipe waste
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Boilers
  13. J

    Help with under bathroom sink pipe work

    I have tried to unblock my bathroom sink and managed to undo the u bend pipe and clear any blockage inside. But there is still a blockage in the pipe leading out of the wall but I can’t see anyway to undo this section. Please advise ASAP. Thank you.
  14. E

    Ideal Standard Dualux Bathroom Monobloc Taps

    Back in the 1980's we bought a few of the above which have ceramic disc cartridges. Generally been very reliable although have dripped which I think was caused by tiny pieces of grit scoring surfaces. Our water supply is from a reservoir and when the Water Authority did routine cleaning water...
  15. T

    LVT flooring in a Bathroom

    Morning I have fitted this twice now as part of a bathroom refurb - small rooms 2m sq approx. I've not had any issues. However MI's say not to put heavy items on this type of flooring but instead cut around with appropriate expansion gap. Well that to my mind eliminates a bathroom !! for this...
  16. A

    Replacement Manrose 100mm Bathroom Extractor Fan

    The motor winding on my Manrose 100 mm Timer Chrome LP100STC 12473 has failed due to ingress of debris into the ducting jamming the fan. It was purchased about 6 years ago. I didn't particularly want a timer model, and consequently now want to fit a standard replacement, preferably one that will...
  17. H

    Bathroom leak mystery

    Hello. I live in 1400 sq ft townhouse with a downstairs powder room. There's a leak but plumber can't figure out where leak orginates. Here's what I know: 1. The leak only happens when the water shutoff valves are off. 2. Running water through the sink doesn't cause water leak or...
  18. L

    Can I add an overflow (i.e. secondary) rainwater drain in an internal lightwell that feeds into a bathroom's soil pipe?

    I would appreciate some advice. I have a flat on the 3rd floor of a converted house, which has a lightwell in the middle of the flat. The bottom of the lightwell reaches the 3rd floor (my flat’s floor level) and has a roof lantern for the flat on the 2nd floor. I plan to build a small bathroom...
    • LordWest
    • Thread
    • bathroom drain overflow pipe soil soil pipe
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Boilers
  19. P

    Cold tap in upstairs bathroom flow problem

    Hi all, I'm having an issue with the cold tap in my upstairs bathroom. There is barely a trickle of water coming out, while the hot water tap is running fine. I'm not having any problems with any other cold taps in my house. A Google search suggests that there may be an airlock in the system...
  20. M

    Soil pipe from upstairs bathroom into downstairs

    hi, new to the forum today, i had a bathroom installed a couple of years ago upstairs which was a bedroom above what was a downstairs bathroom in a dorma bungalow, the plumber plumbed in the soil pipes from the toilet and shower etc into the existing low level system doenstairs and used a swan...
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