Just musing over whether bathrooms in flats are plumbed differently to regular houses......
I'm fitting a bathroom suite for someone on a ground floor flat presently. I really can't believe the original plumber got paid to do the job he did, but maybe it's just a feature of flat installations that I haven't previously seen.
Problem 1 is that the hot flow is extremely slow. Reason being that the hot tank has a head of water about 1 foot above the bath, so it almost dribbles out of the hot tap.
Problem 2 is that the waste pipe to the stack is about 6 inches off the ground, and the water level is equal to the top of the bath plughole - so when the bath is emptied it stops emptying at the top of the plughole. Emptying the bath is of course extremely slow.
With problem 2 the situation is exacerbated by the waste pipe being run horizontally for several feet to the stack.
I thought at the outset that I might be able to lower the waste pipe and introduce an incline so as to improve the waste flow. No such deal was available once I'd exposed the pipework behind the wall, I'd have had to do some serious structural work to accomplish that little feat.
Why oh why did the idiot who did the plumbing in the flat originally not use a couple of braincells?
Fscking plumbers.....
PoP