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Bob Plum

Don't use the upstairs WC or bath for at least an entire day - if you get no smells in the downstairs loo, the waste from the upstairs is pushing gas through the downstairs loo. You could try flushing the upstairs loo while someone watches the downstairs to see if gas bubbles back. If that is the ca...

Bob Plum

The ceiling is simple - two layers of standard plasterboard with no joins coinciding in the two layers - it's usual to offset the second layer by half a board in both directions. I don't beleive building reg's would be involved but 100mm of concrete of the correct grade is the minimum for light use.

Bob Plum

I would always fit a floor in any room, before anything went in the room that was to stand on the floor. Any floor covering that tries to butt up to sanitary fittings also always looks a mess unless you are very lucky and skilled. Even with carpet, the fittings are best sat on slightly under-sized W...

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I've done a few searches and can find nothing posted already, and can't see a more appropriate section.... I have a 3-piece suite that is well over 10 years old but I have worked away from home for a lot of that time and live alone, so it has had very little use at all. But, the seat support of all ...

Bob Plum

Boilers that run hot water and rad's are availabe here that burn any of the normal fuels, including wood. As with any solid fuel boiler, it is normal to connect a loop somewhere to dump heat because they cannot be completely turned off as can electricity, gas and oil burners. If there is no open loo...

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What tiomber? What style? What general decor have they got to match? Staining that lots in situ with a purely stain product would test the patience of Job. If you want to change the colour from natural either get some lessons in relaxation and meditation before you start or use a combined stain and ...

Bob Plum

No-ones uses anything but no-nails to secure skirting these days.

Bob Plum

Rather depends on severity of rust but as the system will be all but drained for the boiler replacement, and a new rad' will cost relative peanuts...................
Having said that, I have never heard of anyone ever getting a leak in an actual rad' - but it must happen to someone somewhere.

Bob Plum

Is the pump running? Have you managed to disconnect or wrongly reconnect the pump when you did the electrical part of the valve replacement? If the pump isn't running, disconnect it from the control box, put a 13A plug on it and then plug it in - if it works, then the connections are wrong somewhere...

Bob Plum

There will be a fitting available somewhere to join one to t'other but the usual trick is to overlap the pipes by a reasonable distance, one inside the other, loosely stuff newspaper between the two to about 2-3 inches from the top of the larger pipe, and then fill the gap with mortar. The newspaper...

Bob Plum

Unless the law has changed, requiring showers to be run via a tank, the simplest and by far the most effective thing would be to run it from the rising main. If it is run from a tank, then cold water presure is irrelevant except that it should cope with a pump emptying the tank PDQ. (Although what &...

Bob Plum

Was the under-coat the one specificallyrecommended for the satin? The problem sounds like the satin hasn't wetted the under-coat properly so they sound incompatible.

Bob Plum

Digging a soakaway in clay will not work unless the clay overlies free-draining soil and the soakaway goes down into it, and the water-table is low. Digging a hole (which is basically what a soakaway is), in water-logged ground is like digging a hole in a marsh - you get a pond in the middle of a ma...

Bob Plum

I live in a bungalow with concrete floors and would like to fit a new close-coupled WC (are there any other more traditional types availalbe?). The problem is that the eartherware connection to the sewer rises through the concrete floor about 10-15cm too far from the wall for a simple connection to ...

Bob Plum

The smell arises from lack of use - usually because the trap dries out and lets gas from the drains come up through the U-bend. All of the times that I have experienced sewer smell getting where it shouldn't, it takes ages to clear - it just clings for ages. But it does clear eventually. The real an...

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