DIY with function over finesse!!

[RichardW]

Those isolation valves are well known to start leaking from the operating shaft o-rings once they have been disturbed.... If you can easily knock the water off, I would replace with something better!

[mickthemaverick]

Thanks Richard but I think I was mistaken as it has remained bone dry since I looked last time. It is possible that I simply didn't dry it when I took the pipe off. I have today refitted the pipe to it with a new olive and fresh PTFE tape so I don't want to disturb that and hopefully it will be beyond my time before it will need looking at again!! The bath was installed in 2009 so the plumbing was fine and only the bath itself has failed. Not surprising when you see how thin it is, had I have been there when it was installed I would probably have rejected it because of that but I wasn't!!

The thinning bath with the crack highlighted by me.

[Vic Evans]

This summer we had 16 yo grandson & two mates staying for a week using our loft apartment.
Long after they'd gone we found that a screw-in wooden leg on one of the beds we brought here from the UK many years ago was broken. Yeah that's kids for you
On examination I discovered that the dual threaded screw had snapped leaving the wood screw part still in the leg & the bolt type end nowhere to be seen.
The remaining legs had what appeared to be 8mm bolt thread but 8mm threaded rod I had wouldn't fit.
Searching through my boxes of bits & bobs for a bolt I could weld onto the wood screw end resulted in nothing that would fit so out came my old dad's tool boxes I inherited.
The first useful thing I found was a thread gauge which showed me the thread should be 5/16 BSW so like looking for rocking horse poo trying to find that sort of thing in France.
Continued digging through old chap's boxes discovered a foot length of the exact size threaded bar I required. What's the odds on that??
I drilled the hole in the leg down a further couple of inches with an interference fit, screwed in the threaded bar 'till well tight & cut it off to length.
Result , a perfect job when reunited with bed which would not have been possible with the old chap's 'stuff'.
Cheers dad.

[mickthemaverick]

Progress on the bathroom refit, the bath has arrived, it was shrink wrapped to the pallet so the bungee cord is my own means of security after inspecting it for chips etc, there were none and no fish either!

The new bath awaiting feet, handles, waste and taps all of which will go on after it is upstairs!!

They even supply an instruction leaflet to tell you how to fit the handles and feet, could never have worked them out!!

The instructions pre-removal.

Now I am just waiting for the new flexible connectors and we'll be ready to go!!