Home DIY

Some kind of mirror/glass adhesive on the back or silicon around the edges would probably work for most installs. Most 'high street' glass suppliers will know what you're ordering and can advise you.

Nice. Ta!

Remaining missing door came from Fittingly (actually, it came a while ago but only just got around to fitting it after painting it a couple of weeks ago). Also touched up the filler and paint around the scribed panels. Wardrobes finally finished.

Everest due out on 10th, after a failed first visit where they brought the wrong trim profile to fix the window frames.

Window sill now sanded and Teak oiled.

Curtains on order and should be here in March.

Also out of shot, was able to get Virgin to relocated the main cable entry point to the living room so the old socket was removed and the hole filled.

We nearly have a bedroom.

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That looks fantastic

I've used my expensive one enough to know that I wouldn't want to rely on it for very much.

This looks like my bedroom as a kid in terms of layout

Ages ago I rewired our dinning room light to be two pendants. In the process I fucked the light switch and had to replace it.

One of the bulbs has just gone. The bulbs go quite often. It isn't always the same one.

Is this just shit bulbs or something? Or could there be some issue with how I did the wiring? And how would I trouble shoot this issue?

Does anyone in East London have an endoscope type camera to look in bathroom plumbing and in through ceiling spotlights etc? Not big, I'm mainly trying to work out why my sink/bath/shower drain so slowly and if there is anything I can do about it.

If so, could I borrow it?

Have they always drained slowly? From new, do you know?

Forgive me if I’m missing something, but the answer is probably that there’s a blockage. Rodding the drainage run will tell you the same as an endoscope, and a rod will be more available and cheaper than an endoscope.

https://www.diy.com/departments/drain-coil-with-worm-screw-l-5000mm/5059340003061_BQ.prd

Bought the house two years ago. We have the same cleaner as the old owners and she said it's always been bad. I've put every manner of un-blockers, bicarb of soda, coil from inside and it improves a bit but never clearly getting rid of a specific blockage that 'fixes it'.

Every month or so I will have to plunge the shower as it's not draining as fast as it is filling up.
When it was really bad I got Homeserve out who used a coil from outside, plunger inside and a wet vac inside and out. Vac did the most, but again it wasn't a eureka moment.

It's a fully slate tiled floor, kitchen extension below, so I'm trying to ascertain if there is a specific cause that could be rectified by putting holes in the kitchen ceiling.

Is there a water trap (dunno if that's the correct term) somewhere on the drain besides the one in the shower? That could create a vacuum like effect, making it drain very slowly. Just fixed a problem like that by removing the shower trap. Our plumber was a bit embarrassed that he hadn't noticed the trap in the basement, when he did the bathroom plumbing.

There’ll be some fat buildup that the previous rodding hasn’t solved. The rodding gets rid of the easy stuff and the situation improves a bit, but it’s never clear. The moveable stuff gets stuck behind the fat buildup.

I have one of these around Turnpike Lane if that's any good
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01NBFTAHE
Although whenever I've used it I've found it very difficult to interpret what the camera is showing me.

This is interesting. I think it is the basin (trap) then shower (pretty flush tray) and then bath (trap) so plenty of ways that a vacuum could be formed.

I did think it could be the issue, but I don’t know for sure what’s under the floor.

It’s just the bathroom, so hair etc but hopefully not too much fat.

Nice, that’s the one I was thinking of getting. If it’s ok with you, I’ll dm you if I find a window to mess around with it.

Ah I see. Kitchen sink runs fine? The drainage runs don’t come together at any point?

If it was a vacuum, wouldn’t you see an immediate improvement upon plunging?

Good luck!

Does it smell of sewer if you remove/empty the trap? If not there might be another one further down the line.

BTW anyone looking to make their next million, don't buy stocks and shares, cyrpto or property, buy toilets.

Just starting the next bathroom renovation for a mate and went to buy the same sanitary ware that I normally get, roca, vitric and rak are my go to 'work well, medium priced' kinda stuff.

RAK 600 toilet, works well, good quality fitting kit, good quality flush mechanism, supplied with real bolts made of metal! Normally £150-200 inc VAT. 6 months since I last bought one, now they are £360+. All others seemed to have bumped up as well, they are made in places like Turkey, UAE places I don't think are affected with Brexit tariff's, however its likely that same as bike industry, they come to the UK distributors via a central European importer, so end up attracting tariff's and charges that way.

In this bathroom also need to modify the soil pipe to have a vent stack as currently does not have one! Result is large flushs siphoning out the traps in the sink + shower due to the lack of vent, been like that for decades I guess.
Anyone with plumbers knowledge know if its OK to tap into a neighbours vent pipe (they say yes) which comes up through the floor in pretty much the ideal location. Can chop and slide or glue a T in at a suitable height above this soil (2m sounds above sounds safe). Or there is some sort of requirement for soil pipe vents to be 'per each bathroom'.

If the neighbour is willing that sounds like an ideal solution. I guess that’s how it works in flats and conversions all the time so doubt it’d be a building regs problem.

Alternative would be a durgo or air admittance valve.

I expect the price of ceramic toilets is also linked to the price of gas. Big ol’ kilns to bake shitters.

now they are £360+.

OMG. I have a BNiB RAK bog in the garage. Bought last year for about £150 as you say. I’m rich!

Dibs

Could put a durgo on it.

On a similar topic, we have started to get smells coming from the sink when the dishwasher is draining since installing a new kitchen. The dishwasher wasn't replaced, doesn't smell inside, and it didn't smell when draining before, so I can only suspect it is down to how the IKEA lillviken siphon works. My suspicion is that the pump on the dishwasher is so strong that it blasts everything through the U, as the IKEA setup is that the dishwasher line has a straight entry into it rather than being at 90 deg. Anyone have any bright ideas or experienced similar?

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I like to install DW and WM with their own trap. Avoids smells and gurgling in the sink when it empties.