Thanks UK.D-I-Y! Jobs a good 'un!

Hello!

Most of the threads in uk.d-i-y are questions from numpties (e.g. me!)

- and many of the regulars here have given me loads of advice on one of my recent projects.

...the missus said "The ensuite could do with some attention".....

Thats how it started.

Anyway, project started..... ...lots of questions raised by me

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- and many great answers.

Bottom line = JOB FINISHED.

Pics of start, during, and after are avaiable at:-

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you may well recognise your advice being put into action!

So - all I'm saying is THANKS GUYS!

RJ

PS - I hate tiling PPS - I hate plumbing

PPPS - Last question ;) - the shower tray is "Mira" - and the shower trap was provided by them. all fine - but the top "plug" bit that drops in the hole is okay, but the shower puts out so much water it can't drain away quickly enough. So we have to take the "mira" "cap" out of the plug hole.... Any ideas?

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ryanjjones
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maybe you could explain that.

NT

Reply to
bigcat

Explain - erm.

There is a plug hole. There is a long round tube (must be a trap to catch anything that goes in) - this fits in the plug hole. This is fine! Then there is like a plug - vastly oversize, and platic legs which fits over the hole. this gives perhaps 5mm of gap for the water to flow down into the plug. But with this in place the water can't escape fast enough - so we end up taking it out.

Hope that explains.....

I'll be calling Mira on Tuesday anyway.

PS - the missus has already said "....this shows up the other bathroom......". Great. :( ;)

Reply to
ryanjjones

I bought the same design from B&Q and had the same problem BUT with the B&Q one it's possible to slightly unscrew the mushroom and increase the size of the slot - problem fixed!

Dave S

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Dave

Yes it's a normal shower trap; the idea is that it acts in the same way as a U-bend, providing a water seal between the air within your waste pipes and the air in the bathroom, to prevent nasty niffs and bugs from coming up into the room. Required by building regs... by removing it you're exposing yourself to these, and I suppose ultimately you might be putting yourself at risk from legionaire's or something?

It's used in showers instead of a u-bend, firstly because of limited depth (usually) below the shower tray,and secondly, so you can easily dismantle it from above to clean it out (they usually fill with hair etc pretty quickly!).

As to why the water isn't draining fast enough... I'd guess maybe the flow of water through your waste pipe is a bit marginal; maybe you used

1.25" instead of 1.5" diameter pipes? or maybe the fall on the pipe is a bit shallow? or there are too many bends? I don't know; but it would be surprising that a standard trap wouldn't have adequate throughput to be able to cope with the output of a standard shower.

David

Reply to
Lobster

me too!

Unscrewed the cap about two turns and that seemed to fix it.

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John Rumm

In message , snipped-for-privacy@mail.com writes

I have the same problem with my shower, and actually have to set up a syphon by blocking the hole until their is enough of a head to suck the water out!

Reply to
Richard Faulkner

Unscrewing it did the trick.

Thread is "so fine" that when I untwisted it a few turns a while ago I didn't notice it move... DOH!

John Rumm wrote:

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ryanjjones

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