Homeowners Plumbing Handbook by Marc Stewart - HTML preview

Contents

Gaining access to hot and cold lines:

Turning off the water supply:

Removing an old bath, taps and waste trap:

Changing the toilet pan and cistern:

Water piping revisited:

Shower mixer:

New bath:

New toilet cistern cold feed:

Hidden pan connector concrete floor:

New Toilet wooden floor:

If relocating a toilet to a position to the left or right:

Temporary toilet flush:

Relocating a through the wall P-trap pan:

Fitting off a close-coupled toilet:

Shower tray waste line:

A four-way riser or saddle:

New vanity position:

The vanity basin waste:

Vanity plug and washer waste with overflow:

Fitting a wall hung toilet cistern:

Bath plug and washer:

A note on traps and their waste pipes:

Wingbacks for a laundry tub and washing machine:

A supertub:

Wingbacks set out for a new kitchen and dishwasher:

Water filter under the sink:

Running water pipes:

Copper jointing:

Cutting into an existing water line under the floor:

Fittings for shower mixers and slide rails:

Changing over from a normal laundry tub to a supertub:

Testing of new water feed lines:

Using P.VC solvent cement:

Replacing a hot water storage cylinder:Installing an instant gas hot water heater:

Replacing rotten floor and wall timbers:

Repairing or replacing the underground cold feed into the house from the street:

Increasing the hot water pressure on a low pressure system:

Roof leaks in slate:

Roof leaks in clay or concrete tiles:

Roof leaks in a steel roof:

Repairing a storm water drain blocked by tree roots:

Sewer drain blockage repairs:

Making a repair on a burst galv cold feed line:

Repair of burst on a cold feed alkathene line:

Repairing leaking or sticking taps:

Replacing a tap into a wingback in the wall:

Changing over your wall kitchen taps for a bench-mounted tap:

Placing a bench-mounted kitchen mixer tap:

Installing a dishwasher:

Fitting a water filter for the first time:

Installing a new vanity:

Building a timber bath cradle:

Replacing a shower mixer in the wall:

Fitting a slide rail to your shower:

Repairing rusted out steel spouting:

Installing a house lot of spouting:

Replacing a downpipe:

Installing a long run steel roof:

Hipped roof:

Roof valley:

Drawing up and costing out the new roof:

Roof fixings:

Fitting ridge capping:

Roof safety: