Plumbing Advice

Have my water pipes been plumbed the wrong way? Discussion Thread

Good morning,

I recently had an extension, new bathroom and new en-suite fitted. Prior to the works the hot water worked.

Now we have moved back we have no hot water. British gas came for 5 hours on saturday and replaced every single part of the boiler to do with the hot water as well as the heat pump. After not knowing what else it could be, the engineer was able to manually ‘trick the boiler’ and turn the hot water...

 

Electric pipe bender Discussion Thread

Hi All,

Has anyone got or used one of those new fangled electric pipe benders?

Something like the Rotherberg Robend or something yellow from REMS?

Many thanks!

Electric pipe bender for the original thread on Plumbers Forums

 

Replace central heating gate valve with 2-port valve Discussion Thread

My house has a separate central heating loop that heats an annex. The annex loop has 3 x radiators (all with TRV), pump (manually switched) and a gate valve. The gate valve is very awkwardly sited, and difficult to operate, so I am wondering whether it is a good idea to replace this with 2-port zoning valve that is controlled by the pump switch. So pump off = port vv shut, and pump on = port vv open.

Any thoughts...

 

How well does bunging the cold feed and Open vent work Discussion Thread

Have a radiator to swap. I'm thinking of piping back to the current supplies. The rad is slightly smaller. The connecting on the the old pipes at the end one by one. Would using bungs in the open vent a cold feed create enough of a vacuum for me to do this? Which a drain down. Thanks

How well does bunging the cold feed and Open vent work for the original thread on Plumbers Forums

 

Waste pipes into hopper Discussion Thread

Hi,

My property's soil stack has a single entry for the toilet waste. Then a separate hopper and downpipe which drains into a gulley to collect waste water from the basin, shower and bath. Photo attached for reference.

I'm in the process of lowering the waste pipes and wondered whether I could combine the pipes going into the hopper so that only one pipe comes out the wall. Could I tee into the bath waste pipe (50mm) with the shower (40mm)...

 

Central heating system cleaning Discussion Thread

Hi all, I have added a bottle of Fernox F3 into my towel radiator upstairs, I have run the heating for a good few days now.
I have bleed off points downstairs I can attach a hosepipe to drain the system.
Question when all the water has drained out can I leave the hosepipe on and fill the system so the water flows through the system and remove any left over crap out of the hosepipe, and then when I see water running clear remove...

 

Spain v England 2024! Good luck lads! Discussion Thread

Who's watching the game and where are you?

I tried 2 places and they were rammed so me and my daughter came home.

Hope we get this one!! We're owed a couple IMO

Spain v England 2024! Good luck lads! for the original thread on Plumbers Forums

 

Connecting bath drainage to soil pipe Discussion Thread

Hi all,

I need to connect my bath drainage to my new soil pipe. I have only one spare entry to boss into the pipe at the very bottom (see photo). As the inital entry out the wall will be on a gradient I was wondering if there was a combination of elbows I can utilise to get a 90 degree vertical drop down to the entry point? As I'm using 50mm pipe I'm not sure I can fashion something on an angle, similar to boiler condensate pipe...

 

Help unclogging an old cement sink Discussion Thread

Hi all,

I have an old school cement laundry sink which is clogged. I unscrewed the pipe underneath to try to clear it, and I was able to get some crud out of there. But it seems the majority of the blockage is higher up, in a section concealed within the cement where the two drains get combined into one. I've tried to see if the strainers can be removed with needle nose pliers, but they seem stuck fast. We've tried drain cleaning...

 

Have I hired a cowboy? Discussion Thread

We have a leak in a central heating pipe under the tiled floor in our downstairs bathroom. The water was seeping up through the floor. I called a plumber and he lifted the tiles and dug to reveal the pipe and find the leak. He has repaired the leak using compression joints (also repaired larger 28mm pipe which he punctured when digging), which he says are more reliable than soldering, but we have had constant leaks from each pipe every time the...