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back to wall look using standard toilet pan?
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I have a standard toilet with the sewage pipe at right angles which i am fed up with seeing. The floor is built around the toilet so I want to leave the pan in place and build a unit around it with a concealed cistern to hide the pipe. Is …

Manifold leak?
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Hi, I have a wall mounted tap for the bat installed, been fine for a year but not there’s a drip from the spout. Can I fix this without having to remove any of the wall? Here is a like to the manifold that’s behind the wall https://www.betterbathrooms.com/Images/780974861BeBa_25473_3_Supersize.jpg?v=9

Out pipe solution for sink, dish washer and washing machine
Plumbing  •  271 views  •  1 answer

If I'm attaching a dishwasher and washing machine to my kitchen sinks out-pipe (The pipe goes straight down under the concrete floor after the kitchen sink), am I better with double input hose connectors Or A standing water pipe? or does it not matter and should I just use whatever …

Tap replacement - quarter turn taps?
Plumbing  •  267 views  •  2 answers

I need to replace the taps in my bathroom sink basin. Currently I have quarter turn taps - does it matter if the replacements are full turn, or should I stick with quarter turn?

toilet sighs and flushes intermittently but continuously
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toilet sighs and flushes intermittently continuously Have been trying for hours

No hot water upstairs
Plumbing  •  263 views  •  1 answer

Hi. Water is running hot downstairs but not from upstairs taps...radiators are heating up fine. Any ideas please?

Smelly toilet
Plumbing  •  261 views  •  4 answers

I am in desperate need of advice, my toilet has a constant smell coming from inside the bowl. I have plunged and there is no blockage, I have cleaned it inside and out, I have put buckets of hot water down and washing up liquid to try and clean the …

Shower hot and cold directions?
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We have just had a shower fitting replaced - not electric but when we turn it on hot and cold are opposite directions from indicated on valve ..plumber has told us is because original plumbing in wall is wrong way around ? If this is so why did the previous …

How to investiage damp issue?
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We have a short 15mm copper pipe, with 90 bends each side, which passes through a brick partition wall to feed a radiator. We had the pipe replaced because the wall was damp around it. The damp is now much worse but confined to about about a foot to one …

Intermittent cold water to kitchen tap
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I live in a ground floor flat of a 4 storey building (built 2007) and have a mixer tap in my kitchen but more often than not recently I have no cold water coming out of the tap or sometimes just a little or very very occasionally there might be …

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