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I am installing a new bathroom which will have a 5.5m run of soil pipe from the toilet to the stack. I am planning to turn the pipe 45 degrees immediately after the toilet, then a first run of 1m, followed by another 45 degrees, then the remaining 4.5m to the stack. This will all be with...

I need to fit ground Drain around my patio. It will empty into an existing rectangular clay drain. How does one join the plastic ground Drain to the clay drain? Thanks!

Hey guys, I’m installing a saniflo macerating toilet, but having trouble finding a good spot to discharge the 22mm pipe to. option 1- discharge right into where my current WC goes. The problem is i dont have access to neighbour underneath my house, so I would have to raise the WC or somehow...

I was cleaning the bath tub and I had unscrew a cap from the side of bath tub (where the hole is located) below: [![Whole bath tub][1]][1] The cap consists of 2 parts:part A & B as below [![part A & B for cap][2]][2] When I removed part B, the part A is connected by a screw, which comes from...

Hi, I have a two-pipe fully pumped S plan open vented system. When I drained it last time, I had the impression there is some sludge or dirt around it. I therefore am going to drain it again to install a magnetic filter. I was thinking of taking this chance to add a tee on the feed pipe (the...

Hi, I have a Zanussi Dishwasher ZDF2020 that is flashing an error on the led's. Manual says the drain is blocked. However, if I fill the washer with 2 kettles of water and reset/start a cycle the water is drained out as normal, 5 seconds of whoosh then reduces to a trickle. So the pump must be...

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I am looking to put a patio down. As you can see from the photo there are two pipes close to the house. The patio will be one brick down from the DPC, so 75 - 85mm, and I thought I would put an Aco Linear Drain up against the wall so the top of the drain is level with the patio, one brick...

Hi There is a drain inspection cover in my front garden and I would like to raise the soil level around it, which would result in it being hidden under the soil. I assumed it was a sewage drain and was therefore planning to raise the cover with an extra layer of bricks and a new frame and...

We have recently moved into our home 1880s built terrace. I have noticed our rear rainwater drain gulley has a few cracks in! After a good clean and scrub it seems to only be the clay top cracked and the inlet spout is in tact with no cracks. Ideally I dont want to have to dig up garden to...

A drain in my mansion block has disconnected and needs to be put back together (picture attached). This results in a noisy leak. We'be been quoted scaffolding only costs of over £1000. Is this right? It's on the 3rd floor of a property. Access from the window might be possible, but I only...

Hi folks, So I've got a leaking waste pipe from the rubber seal of my bathroom. The house is only 5yrs old and was built by somebody that didn't seem to care on a lot of detail (bit housing company, I'll skip my rant but it involves faulty heating installations, radiators not plumbed correctly...

Hi, a builder was looking at my house the other day and looked at the grid next to the house , and said he thought it had dropped. It looks quite low in comparison to the concrete around it, which also has holes in. If i push on each side it wobbles, however if i lift the grid i can see water. I...

Hi, my house is Victorian, so all the pipe gutters etc are quite old. I’ve noticed some cracks in the drain gulley (hope this is the correct term)- see attached. I’m guessing I need to get these fixed but does anyone have any idea of the scale of the job? Is it a simple case of filling them in...

Hi, my neighbour is having an extension done. We have a semi detached property with shared guttering. The down pipe from the guttering used to go straight down in to my neighbours garden in to the gutter drain which was in their garden. They are now extending the house where the gutter drain is...

I have this at home: Glue and I need to solvent-weld these abs drain piping: pipe and elbow Can I avoid purchasing solvent cement? Or would that present some problem? Thanks.

Hello, I've got a Hoover frost-free fridge freezer, just over a year old, model HVBF5182WK. The drain hole in the bottom of the freezer is frozen/blocked and as a result the drain water is now forming ice under the bottom drawer. It's not a big problem and it should be an easy fix to...

Hi, I have a built up of drainage smell in the basement where we us to have are old toilet drainage before, basically the old drainage is no longer in use and still has water standing, its under the bay window in the basement. I can access it by removing a few bricks from inside the basement as...

Hi, I have a steep sloping drive, where it flattens slightly there’s a large manhole cover next to a drain grid, which is set higher, leaving a gap for muck and leaves to go down. It gets driven over so needs to be better really. Could anybody please tell me what’s the best way of sorting it ...

Hi! I live in rented accommodation and have an issue with my bath not draining quickly enough. I’ve taken off the trap and checked for blockages and there isn’t anything there. Also pushed a drain cleaner down the waste pipe and nothing obvious in the way. I did notice that the although the...