Bathrooms in flats

PoP · 2003-12-12T19:58:20+00:00

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

Dec 12, 2003 21 Replies

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PoP 22 years ago

That's what I was referring to - I plugged the pipe into the lid receptacle whilst my mind was wandering aimlessly..... :)

PoP

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Witchy 22 years ago

In other news, after reading your post I cracked open my aquavac after realising it hadn't actually been used in anger for perhaps 7 years, so there was practically *vintage* dust in there! Perhaps I can sell it on ebay :)

The time before THAT it was used in anger was by my parents, who used it to suck out all the wasps from a nest that had been built in the loft and has been discussed here......

The Missus said 'put it in the shed, and if it's still there unused this time next year we'll chuck it'

-- cheers,

witchy/binarydinosaurs

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