Hello, I am replacing a lead water pipe and wondered if it was necessary to have a stopcock outside the property like there is currently.
it is seised and about 50cm from the Thames water plastic stop valve.
i am of course planning to put a stopcock under the kitchen sink at the first...
Hi All
I hope someone can help me.
If someone owns a property and decides to sell off part of it as a flat. Who is liable for the cost for separating the water supply and when should the work be done - before or after sale.
The upper floors of our offices were recently sold for residential...
Hi, I would appreciate some help! I am trying to isolate the (cold) water supply to an electric shower in the bathroom. I think the shower is fed from the same supply pipe as the bathroom cold water taps. I have gone into the attIc and closed the gate valve labelled “cold water feed” on the...
I hope asking this is not a problem and that you will be able to advise. I have either a problem with a leak somewhere to my drains or mains supply. Both enter/exit the house near to each other and there has been a damp/darkened area on the concrete over the area for a while. There is also a...
I have a 3/4" bore lead water supply pipe. I have cut it back to where it enters the house. I wish to feed my house system via a whole house water filter, including the combi boiler. The static pressure is just under 4 bar. Should I use 22mm pipe to and from the whole house filter? I also...
Hello all, new to the site and hoping I can get some help while I do my extension.
I'm currently in the process of building an extension on the side of my house (joined to current property)
I've built a sort of granny annexe with a kitchen bathroom and livingroom/Bedroom.
I'm planning on...
I have a job where I need to run 30 metres of 28 mm and 10 metres of 22mm copper tube. Now there is no gas hob in the place so I need to light the gas while purging. What right do you guys make up in this scenario. Cheers
Hi Chaps
I have a leaky pipe in my boiler, so keep losing pressure on the central heating loop. The 22mm pipe has a bend in it so I was wondering if I could replace it with a braided hose but after buying one with 22mm speedfit connectors at each end I noticed that the actual internal hose was...
I'm having some major landscaping work done to the garden and I want to take the opportunity to put in a permanent water supply to a polytunnel (for growing veg), which will be installed at the end of the garden.
The garden is about 30m long, with a slight uphill gradient away from the house...
Evening all,
Fresh to the forum so hello first!
Well right to it. I am currently mid flow with a new kitchen design but need to establish something before we go any further. My mains water supply comes in directly under where the sink is currently located as normal. But if tou check the...
Hi everyone - wondering if anyone can offer words of wisdom.
I have a problem with the hot water supply to my shower. Its a bath mixer tap (compression washer type) with a shower head attachment - hot water is supplied by a combi boiler that also supplies 8 radiators. The central heating is...
Hi Chaps,
I'll shortly be fitting a new washing machine in the kitchen - the current one being inconveniently situated in the garage:(
The only practicable location is as shown in the following (poorly drawn!) sketch:
A solid fuel Aga used to live in the chimney breast, but it was ripped out...
On a house that is plumbed up in 15mm pipe for the cold mains. Feeding a bathroom and an ensuit next to each other. Would the shower in the ensuite not likely struggle when some one is using the bath in the bathroom next door. Are both feed of the same 15mm pipe.
We live in a flat spilt level flat, cold water has stopcock on each floor, water is heated by gas boiler then stored in immersion tank in airing cupboard. We have no main stopcock.
We cannot determine where to turn off hot water.
There is no valve at boiler. Pipes go into panelling from...
Hello CORGI plumbers,
Prancer & I want to feed natural gas into the garden grotto outbuilding, from the external underground yellow MDPE 25mm external diameter (20.5 I.D.?) pipe.
But we don't know what connector(s), isolators, box, wall plate etc is required to transition from plastic to...
Hi, Got a job to do installing a combi boiler, Gas supply pipe is in a cupboard in the kitchen which has been capped off just wondering if there is a reconnection fee and is it the customers job to arrange to get a meter installed
What is the usual process?
All the other jobs ive done have had...
Hi, Please be gentle with me... first time posting here.
Can any of you knowledgeable plumbers answer this question..... would you personally use PEX pipe for your OWN domestic drinking water supply? Have you had any problems with taste, or leaching?
I'm having a new kitchen installed, and...
I wondered if anyone can help me please. I recently bought a fridge second hand and I am having trouble attaching it to the water mains. I have included pictures below (If the link works!). I think it is an american fridge.
Brand: RCA
Model: RCG20IERFBB
I have tried looking for a...