Ping F**k It

A few months ago I had to change the flush pipe on my loo (unknown to me the previous one had been bodged with duct tape, that after 25+ years had rotted away and was starting to leak).

Afterwards the flush was much stronger, so much so that it ejected two circular philishave blades into the bowl, I guess a previous occupant had knocked them into the cistern and they had got trapped within the rim ...

We popped into McD's the other day for a Muffin and had one of those peel off and maybe win a prize stickers on it. I peeled it off and had won a cold drink! I put it on the dash, in the bit in the middle by the clock and 2 minutes later it blew out of the window (while we were still sitting there). ;-(

Cheers, T i m

Remove sink u-bend, rinse in sink, mop dirty water from floor, replace u-bend.

Thomas Prufer

Remove basin trap, full of dirty water etc., easy - tip trap into basin...!

But *everyone* has done that :-)

Some times more than once :-(

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You're lucky you didn't flush while sat on it.

Why on earth would anyone empty a container through a hole quite clearly big enough to take the thing they're trying to retrieve?

Like everyone has not loosened a left-hand thread by tightening it?

I despaired of one such connection, until noting an arrow and the word "LEFT" on the screw head...

Thomas Prufer

Force of habit, and all that, Doncha know! I'm pretty certain I've done the 'tip the water back into the basin from which I've just removed its trap trick' a time or two over the past 30 years but the last time I was beginning to wonder about handedness of threads was quite recent as described below.

About a month ago, I had to remove a radiator off the wall in the back bedroom to give the plasterer access. It was the first part of the first major house redecoration since we'd moved in 35 years ago.

SWMBI had decided that since we were going to have all our worn out hall and stair carpets renewed in over 20 years, that now was also a good time to get the painting and redecorating of that room (as well as the hallway, landings and stairways) sorted out so that the only thing being splashed on the carpets was cash.

A month on, and we're now only just getting round to slowly restoring the chaos of shifted furniture and fixtures and used to the novelty of carpeted back bedroom, hallway, stairs and landings.

Anyway, this radiator removal job: I thought it'd be pretty straight forward even though I'd never disconnected one before. The unions between the TRV and lockshield valves were so stiff due to the use of what I'm guessing is Bosswhite, I was beginning to wonder whether I was maybe fighting a left handed screw thread at one end, so much so, I resorted to checking out several youtube vids on the subject.

My worry was that I knew it would be all too easy to bugger the micro- bore pipe connections if I persisted long enough with a 'Brute Force and Ignorance' approach, hence, unusually for me, the cautious approach of checking out youtube vids. :-)

After that, once I knew for sure that the valves at both ends of a rad were standard right hand threads, the only remaining confusion over which way was 'tightening up' was just a matter of fixing in my mind was which side of the 'nut' the threaded part belonged to (the radiator side, right? :-).