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Hopefully I can explain this well enough! For a rak wall hung toilet Inside the ceramic area you insert the flush pipe into, there is maybe a 5cm space, then a ridge going all the way around, then a space with 3 holes where the water flows into the bowl from the pipe. Does the pipe get cut beyond the ridge, which seems to be in the middle of the whole cavity of the flush pipe area? Or do you cut it at the ridge, etc. We are getting leaking and I think I might have cut it too long so it’s too close to the holes and maybe creating a backwash. The rubber seal also pushes back on the flush pipe instead of staying in place so that might also be the problem if it’s not seating well enough inside the ceramic. Thanks!

yes the tank is just for hot water, I just seem to remember the guys asking us to run the main cold water up to the tank cupboard before running it anywhere else. And from there I thought we asked them to put some isolators on so we could turn the water off here instead of going outside, but I can’t see which it would be 😅 i should really write things like this down!!

Is it possible to turn the water to my bathroom off from this tank cupboard? It’s been so long that I can’t remember 😂 . We ran the main water feed up to the tank and then the cold and hot came back from the tank cupboard to the bathroom and the kitchen. I think! IMG_7351.MOV

I just rang for quick price, think it would be about £960 at 10cm thick, but they recommended 15cm which is £1440, so a decent price difference.we’re also laying on a hill.. so not sure how tricky concrete would be for that. have you guys done any tarmac laying? Are there any holes in our plan that you can see, if we did go that route?

The thing is all the country lanes round here don’t seem to have a retaining edge, and the access lane we are repairing doesn’t either, so I guess that’s why we thought we could do it without one for the tarmac.

Just realised you both said concrete and I hadn’t picked that up… is the price comparable? I feel like we ‘should’ respire like with like but I don’t know.

Thanks Declan! Timber edge definitely worth considering. the lorry is including a 30 minute wait then it’s £48 an hour or so for every hour after that that we ask them to wait. I did wonder about asking them if they could dump it in a line into the trench as it runs along the road!

So we have a shared, unadopted lane leading up to 3 houses. I don’t think anyone owns it. Along with our neighbour we dug up one side of the lane to lay water pipes. The lane is in terrible condition so we are wincing at the idea of spending £4k getting it repaired when the rest of the lane will still be so crap. So we are planning on doing it ourselves. Here’s the plan, any holes? it’s about 60m long. Will average about 1m wide for the section we are doing and I was calculating tarmac for 45mm deep..The side we need to repair is not in good condition, it was just scraped at by a digger so no clean edge. we will start by cutting a clean edge with a disc cutter along the length. (Neighbour has a 300m one but Need an asphalt blade) break up what’s left and remove loose stuff (neighbour has a breaker if needed) fill any deep holes with hardcore / bashed up old tarmac compact? With compactor (hire for about £40) Get tarmac delivered next morning (about £700 for 6 tonnes and haulage) barrow it up and down the lane (or maybe we want a motorised barrow?) Compact with one of those ride on rollers with water spray to keep the roller clean (hire about £150 plus delivery) seal join with bitumen seal and a blow torch (about £100) not planning on a proper curb edge to the non joint side, as it didn’t have one before, and don’t think anyone who quoted us for it was going to make one either. also considering getting someone in on a day rate just to be a more experienced pair of hands but that would add £200 any thoughts / advice /etc ? thanks!!

I mean we have had no issues with ours, ufh has been running fine and no issues as far as I know 😂 . Hope yours goes / went ok!

Oh this is good news! The pipe is downstream of the bath, and it’s about a metre or 1.5 metres away?

I’m doing my own plumbing and think I have overlooked the waste plan a bit. House is pretty simple with single upstairs bathroom including bath with shower over, basin and toilet. below this is the kitchen with the kitchen sink. I have some waste pipes in place but I am now confused about whether and where I need to add air admittance valves. I had thought I just put one on the top of the soil stack, to which all the bathroom wastes will run, but now I am not sure? Do I need individual ones on e.g. the basin? I’ve attached a quick diagram of what my thinking was until now. Thanks so much for any advice!

It’s a small barn to be fair, I don’t know if that helps. About 30 or so square metres for the slab downstairs. And the kudos for a job well done goes to our builder who did this but for us! ☺️

Thanks! Glad to hear you think so ? I’ll double check with a long level later for flatness but otherwise I’m hoping that’s the general thought, I really didn’t want to sand it ? the concrete has been down over a year, but that’s a really good tip about the glass bowl!

Thanks @markc also I seem to have reduced this video enough to upload! IMG_0492.mp4