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This will depend on your incoming water pressure off the main.

They must be run with fall and terminate 1m away from the heater.

Yes you need a floor waste in a laundry UNLESS the floor falls to a door that goes outside from your laundry.

Dont let the pool blokes do it, they're worse than landscapers!! And besides it wouldnt be legal.

What Malb said, products of combustion contain carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapour.

I agree its worth investigating, Im curious as to what type of heater you have that makes steam when heating, but bear in mind it could be a soft soldered joint in the ground thats weeping ever so...

Be aware that you will more than likely need an opening permit to dig up the foot path, especially if its paved, and hammering out the old pipe from the kerb wont work, you will have to cut it short...

Sounds like a nice long dead leg to the bathroom, a circulating pump with a return line would fix that, what mick said sounds right but it would only be the case if the plumber did install the valve...

You shouldnt lose anything from a HWS unless the TPR valve is leaking.
Call your plumber to come out and do a pressure test for you. 20ml inb 12hrs is hardly significant and you may find it could be...

Two words, Cross Connection.

As Ive posted before, the flaw in the law is that the Standards state that you need 60deg at kitchen and laundry to kill bacteria etc. but local authorities are more than happy to let you put a...

A sewer pipe that passes through a footing must do so at an angle no less than 45deg, so anywhere betwwen the right angle and 45deg, to make provision for this (this is only if the internal drainage...

This is where they particularly state that one must be installed.

Tricky, just the fact of future sevicing and cleaning, its a nightmare. Not to mention a nice soft bladder that a rat could chew through because he can smell the water through it.
But it comes down...

Just be aware that whats being suggested here is illegal, these heaters are pre set for a reason and any fiddling which needs to be done by a licensed sparky or a rinnai technician may forfeit your...

Thats what I cant get my head around???????????

I wouldnt own one, I just couldnt trust a bladder under the house.
The best Ive seen is the underground poly tanks.

Ram are a good make of tap and been around for quite a while too, if the recess tee for the kitchen is already in the wall, go for it!! Why bother changing it.
With the taps they are pretty hardy,...

I guess it could have, without seeing the house or plans or construction of the place its hard to say why its been done like that.
Doesnt look right though, especially the tempguard set-up

BatPig,
Im assuming its a rental property, and if you really do want ceramic disc taps I will advise as follows;

In the laundry I would put a cheap flick mixer, same with the kitchen and basin,...

Picture two looks like the isolation and expansion control valve to the HWS, the first picture is two tempering valves with the CW feed coming out of the ground under the valves with the HW feed on...

All your mainstream poly water pipes are not UV resistant and the code says it must be protected from such, you could use the "blue line" poly pipe, but dont you use purified water for brewing??

With gas you dont really have any of the head issues associated with vertical rise as you would with water.
By all means get a quote, it depends on where the gas enters the building, where the meter...

Its hard to say without looking at the job, you would need someone out there to give you a quote, being on the fifth floor only tells me you would need 12 or 13 metres of pipe to make it up there....

PVC pipe hasnt changed a bit since it was bought out, regardless of type, size, manufacturer etc.
The only difference they had was pvc for underground and pvc that was uv resistant for outside...

Sly arent they Bricks!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

You might find the ignition runs on a 9v battery, usually located behind the panel where the gas cocks are or behind the kick panel.
If not it will be an electrical fault, one of the sparkies here...

those shiny new little everdure heaters are pretty good for the money, they have a child lock-out setting too on the remote.

yep

20 or 30! Wow!
Ive seen plenty in a slab that have failed and Ive had to fix and of the ones mudded into the wall that ive had to fix have resulted from poor workmanship in the beggining, never...

Im doing a unit at the moment where Ive simply started again with new pipework.
Im more than comfortable to simply use lagged pipe for the hot and put the CW pipework in plain, I have never seen...

everything causes cancer in california, and just out of interest, I was at Ace Gutters yesterday getting some gear and they now sell "non toxic" glue and cleaner..............

I dont think there would be a terrible amount of difference, Tradelink are doing a deal at the moment with a Super Ego turbo torch that comes with tube cutters etc, might be worth a look. Super Ego...

you need to extend the original waste pipe out to suit the P trap of the pan, or better still ask your plumber!!

Go with 20mm mate, as it states in the standards for a water service.

Dont turn the thermostat on the tank down to 50 degrees, it MUST be stored at or above 60 degrees to inhibit the growth of bacteria.......
put a tempering valve in, there are exceptions depending on...

Run 3/4" to all your fixtures and reduce to 1/2" as close to the fixture as you can, they do things differently in QLD and you'll probably find the whole HW installation is in 1/2".

Or you can go to Reece and buy Auspex (not ausplex) by the length (5m) and they will hire out their crimping tool (really they shouldnt unless your a plumber, but a sale is a sale) and if you can get...

Bear in mind too that you need to have a towns water back up incase the tank empties, which will require a backflow prevention device of some sort, in NSW they require a testable device and if thats...

Mate I would go with 100mm for piece of mind, the 90mm stuff is rubbish.
100mm sewer is PVC, or UPVC to be correct, as is 90mm and any other of the commonly available "plastic" drain pipes.
You...

Exactly, I think we've touched on this before.
I wouldnt get it extruded on site, the fellas who done a mates mums place hung a length of quad gutter 15m long without any expansion joints and used...

Its pretty funny Ivan, try it youll be surprised.
I was going to comment on ZX9's handle untill I thought about it and realized I was thinking of the Z1...........
but as far as jappa's go ive...

Believe it or not, (and this is from the Reece Users Account price listing) that a 50m coil of 20mm is $202.84 which works out at $4.06 p/m
where the 5m length is $19.04 and works out at $3.81 p/m !...

G'Day bricks, long time no hear bloke.
Auspex and Rehau I know you can buy it in 5m lengths aswell as coils, as for the others im not sure. I know Dux comes in big coils.
The duopex gas pipe comes...

Treated pine will be OK for the frame, baths are usually notched into the wall about 10 or 15mm so they can be waterproofed with the wall and the tiles sit flush on the top lip, in a rendered wall...

You have to in a lot of areas these days, the trusty AS3500 states that; the maximum static pressure should not exceed 500kPa (50m head) at any outlet.........
a lot of people have dramas with...

Mate as long as its clipped off securely you can run it anywhere, in walls-rendered or stud, buried, under the house no worries. I have heard the stories of the rat eating through the pipe, the story...

Good post Tricky4000!
Plastic pipe is cheaper to buy, the fittings cost a bomb but you get that back in ease of installation.
The plastic gas pipe, same as water.
How tricky described the waste...

Where to start?!?!?:)
Firstly, without trying to sound smart or "keeping a closed shop" as others like to put it:
You shouldnt touch the gas at all, even if you drag it under the house the plumber...

Mate if you need to submit a plan for future works I can only imagine you will need pipe sizes, distances (there is restrictions on how far you can run different sized pipes) they may even want the...