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You need a fanny trap

Cut down the waste pipe, install the trap, and stick a short length of the discarded waste pipe in the top

so i can install that vertically?

Yep. It won't alter the space being used either, so no awkwardness trying to fit a u- / j-bend waste.

Just make sure it's the right way up...

My temporary plan is to make an air tight seal around the top of the pipe in picture 1

If you did this, you could end up with shitty water inside your washing machine.

I happen to have a plumber in now so I asked him and he confirmed you'd need a trap.

Ordered a new washing machine, and new electric hob and oven set from ao the day we got back to London after the Xmas hols. Nothing fancy, just the cheapest energy efficient stuff to tide us over for another 6 to 12 months til we sell the house.

Scheduled them to be delivered and fitted while i was away assuming it'd be a simple like for like replacement. They fitted the washing machine no problem but the engineer told my wife the kitchen cabinets had to be removed so they could access the wall box to wire them in, and took the new appliances back while we decided what to do.

I rang my old man when i got back from my work trip to ask his advice and he said the new appliances never come with cables, and that the wires stay in the wall and are wired at the appliance side. I pulled out my oven and sure enough there was a little access flap with screw terminals behind it.

New oven and hob re delivered today, no sign of new cables, 10 mins with a screwdriver and they're in and working perfectly.

I'm a little surprised a supposedly trained electrician couldn't do that...

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During pic for posterity...

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Annoyingly the new appliances make the rest of the kitchen look very tired, need to get to work on that!

Didn't want to do that more like as it looked like hassle?

It depends how wet it gets and how much traffic there will be. In any case, it will likely be an improvement on what you have now.

I don't see how though, it was no more or less difficult than wiring a plug

This one you can, and is what I have as a temp on a washing machine /dishwasher before the real plumb job is finished.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-pedestal-trap-white-32-x-32mm/17119

Looked at a similar straight trap and was told by the person in the it was horizontal not vertical use, but was a different brand, and the pedestal trap was a fith of the price.

EDIT: looking at the videos of the waterless trap mentioned and can be mounted horizontally or vertically. So wonder what that was about.

It's the only reason I can think of. Did the sparky even move anything to look?

Actually was it even a sparky? Washing machine is just an unplug job.

I think ao call them fitting engineers

Had similar with ao washing machine.
Theyndelivered but wouldn't reconnect.
Said it was a plumbers job.
Called the guys who've been doing our work in the house. They sighed and did it in 10 mins.

When AO came to fit our oven they initially wanted to move straight on because the old oven was plugged in and the new one needed a proper higher-current connection plate (they were also behind schedule and clearly just wanted to bin a job to get back on track). Luckily, I knew that was the case and I told them to put the old oven in their van and fitted the new connection that I had bought a day or two before before they'd got back (and yes I did check that the wiring was up to spec).

To be fair once they know they were going to have to hang around they were good and even took the time to turn the gas bayonet fitting the right way up.

I want to put some ledberg puck spotlights in my cupboard. I've used them before and found them to be ok for the job but mounting them and keeping the cable tidy was a bollocks. Any tips / advice?

Google frenchic. Im part of the fb and see what people have achieved with it. Pretty outstanding. Let’s just say people have painted their fridges with it

Some, yes - but it's changed slightly in that we decided to nix any work upstairs for budgetary reasons. Should make it slightly easier to stay there most of the time and won't take as long. So what we're having done is:

Front/dinning room knocked through, inc RSJ. New flooring, skirting, decoration
Kitchen totally refitted and remodeled inc RSJ, door and a window blocked up. New flooring, skirting, decoration
Repointing back of house + new guttering
Maybe getting a downstairs toilet added too - haven't decided on that, again due to cost and whether it takes away too much living space

Pic 1 is current floor plan, and will end up more or less like pic 2, if all goes to plan...

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Pipe thing doesn't fit pipe. Fucksake.
Pipe won't come out of joint. Doublefucksake.

New oven

looking very content

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After a trip to b&q for extra bits I'm cautiously optimistic.

Thanks for the help people

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crosspost:

our bathroom and toilet are next to each other but separate rooms. for REASONS we need to redo the bathroom, so this would be the time to knock through. i've heard arguments for and against keeping bog and bathroom separate. anyone have any experience of knocking thru or not and any advice to share?

Built a new media unit from 18mm birch ply. Wanted it as plain and simple as possible, to match the record stand I built.

Finally managed to get it on the wall last night...

Really please with it. Absolutely massive at 2.4m long. The TV is 65” for scale.

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Bought a steel bath, had tap holes. Don't need tap holes. Can't face returning to Victorian plumbing. If anyone is interested, free for collection from Leyton:

Kaldewei - Eurowa Eco 130L Steel Enamel Bath - 1700 x 700mm - 2 TH

DM me if interested