Plumbing advice sought

[Phil Pascoe]

 

[Lons]

Plumber arrived a short while ago and now finds that the valve in the cistern is a high pressure type and is changing it to a low pressure valve in cistern.

Says it all really :roll: now the question is has he made the same mistake with the taps?

No need to site a pump in the bathroom btw DW, it can go in the loft or possibly airing cupboard.

 

[devonwoody]

Wc working.

Changing the internal cistern valve we found a rubber stopper jammed in the gear somehow a manufact fault!!!.

Noone fitting would have spotted it until test run.

 

[gwaithcoed]

Hope you are having cold water for the washbasin at mains pressure and not from the header tank. Wouldn't like to clean my teeth using header tank cold water :shock: :shock:

Alan.

 

[devonwoody]

Hope you are having cold water for the washbasin at mains pressure and not from the header tank. Wouldn't like to clean my teeth using header tank cold water :shock: :shock:

Alan.

Done it for 77 years, always spit out of course.
Never had mains in a bathroom.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Hope you are having cold water for the washbasin at mains pressure and not from the header tank. Wouldn't like to clean my teeth using header tank cold water :shock: :shock:

Alan.

I'd be very surprised if many old houses have mains in the bathroom. I've never seen one. I believe it's only in recent years they've come of a main. Swmbo used to drink in bathroom until I replaced a roof tank and she saw what was in the bottom of it. (Insert little pukey smilie)

 

[RogerS]

Best plumbing system I saw was where the overflow from the central heating expansion pipe went into the cold water tank in the loft !! :shock:

" 'Ere, Doris, this tea tastes a bit funny"

 

[devonwoody]

Best plumbing system I saw was where the overflow from the central heating expansion pipe went into the cold water tank in the loft !! :shock:

" 'Ere, Doris, this tea tastes a bit funny"

That's a very good point roger,, I think our goes into the header tank.

 

[Lons]

That's a very good point roger,, I think our goes into the header tank.

Shouldn't do DW. Very much against regulations, more likely it@ from your hot water cylinder. C/Heating system, if the indirect type, should be fed from its' own dedicated small tank in the loft.
I certainly wouldn't use it to brush my teeth if it did. :roll:

 

[devonwoody]

That's a very good point roger,, I think our goes into the header tank.

Shouldn't do DW. Very much against regulations, more likely it@ from your hot water cylinder. C/Heating system, if the indirect type, should be fed from its' own dedicated small tank in the loft.
I certainly wouldn't use it to brush my teeth if it did. :roll:

That's what I meant Lons, it goes to a very small tank which is being fed from the large storage tank.

Thanks all for all those helpful comments.

plumber coming back tomorrow to fit the bathroom washbasin. grouting etc.

 

[Lons]

That's what I meant Lons, it goes to a very small tank which is being fed from the large storage tank.

Thanks all for all those helpful comments.

plumber coming back tomorrow to fit the bathroom washbasin. grouting etc.

Glad it's sorted DW. frustrating when it goes wrong.

From a professional point of view I'd never have left a cistern that was obviously slow filling without at very least finding out what the problem was. he can't have tested it as any numpty would realise it wasn't working. :roll:

Bob

 

[gwaithcoed]

A few years ago a friend of mine after being made redundant got a job as caretaker/handyman at a local school. He had to fit a new washer to a dripping tap on the wash hand basins. While trying to find where to isolate the water he found it was being fed from the cold water storage tank located on the school roof. As the children were drinking this water he went to the head teacher who said " did it really matter" My friend then took him to look in the storage tank and there was a dead pigeon floating on the top :shock: :shock: The tank was originally covered in with a locked door but over a period of time the door had been broken and covering lids removed. Needless to say the system was put on the cold water mains.
After investigation it was found the other two schools in the area were also on the header tank and these were also changed.

Alan.

 

[devonwoody]

Lons, the plumber was the recommendation from the equipment shop supplier, (I think they liked him because of prices he charged)

Quotes ranged from £1250 to £950 with supply of equipment getting quotes from yellow pages.

Retailer £350 equipment, and their plumber recommended £420.=£770.

But I could have done a better job on the small amount of tiling.

Back in the thirties many cold water tanks were located on roof tops I recall, my granddad used to frighten me to death on top of a three storey roof checking for frost and more protection.;

 

[Lons]

Lons, the plumber was the recommendation from the equipment shop supplier, (I think they liked him because of prices he charged)

Quotes ranged from £1250 to £950 with supply of equipment getting quotes from yellow pages.

Retailer £350 equipment, and their plumber recommended £420.=£770.

But I could have done a better job on the small amount of tiling.

Back in the thirties many cold water tanks were located on roof tops I recall, my granddad used to frighten me to death on top of a three storey roof checking for frost and more protection.;

That's the problem if you don't know someone you can trust so you have to take things at face value. I finally retired last week DW and buit my business solely on reputation, never advertised and in fact my landline was ex directory so I only ever got work by recommendation. It's taken me 2 years to persuade my customers to let me retire. :roll:

The thirties are before my time but a good job we've moved away from drinking water out of rusting galvanised tanks running through lead piping.

As an aside, I need a towbar fitted to my car and was quoted almost £1400 by the Audi main dealer, I won't repeat what I told him he could do! :lol: Bloody thieves, I'm having an identical one fitted on Tuesday for about a third of the price and even that's expensive.

Bob

 

[devonwoody]

Lons, I think a lot of the tanks on roofs were plated steel and zinc.

Enjoy your retirement.

Woke up at 3pm this morning went into the bathroom and nasty odour around, cannot make up my mind if its the ceiling paint I used yesterday,(a mould proof white like emulsion) or whether I have got a more serious problem with the soil pipe connection. The trap water seems very shallow, at the rear of trap the water level only rises around 30mm. The pan is a high level comfort model around 500mm floor to seat top.

What overhaul depth would you think the water level should be in a trap?
(lowest to highest water volume depth)

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The trap only stop odours - it doesn't matter much whether it's an inch or a foot so long as it's there. Many emulsion paints stink until dry.

 

[devonwoody]

I am hoping so.