Plumbing 2023, December

Choosing A Heated Towel Rail

Choosing A Heated Towel Rail

You want to replace your iron, shabby towel warmer with something modern, beautiful and functional. So all heated towel rails, or as they are otherwise called design radiators, are divided into water

Multifunctional Shower Cabins

Multifunctional Shower Cabins

Thus, if the shower stall has more than one function (shower itself), then such a stall can be called multifunctional. But this does not mean at all that all such cabins have the same set

Simple Showers

Simple Showers

All my life I have dreamed of having a shower cabin in my bathroom. Friends and acquaintances did not approve of my dream: Are you stunned, you have a wonderful cast-iron bath at home! What about these newfangled things?

Redevelopment Of The Bathroom

Redevelopment Of The Bathroom

So, redevelopment. How long can you walk aimlessly down the hallway from bathroom to toilet and from toilet to bathroom? Our goal is a spacious combined bathroom. To bring your bold vision to fruition

Electronic Plumbing

Electronic Plumbing

In fact, initially, electronic devices appeared when the need arose to automate public toilets. But this device is also convenient for a home toilet, especially if the house has

Tips For Repairing Plumbing

Tips For Repairing Plumbing

In the swivel tube of the mixer, the rubber O-ring wears out over time and begins to leak water. Place a few turns of thread in the ring groove and slide the ring over them. It will stretch and

How To Hide A Waste Cistern

How To Hide A Waste Cistern

Unlike conventional ceramic inside, such a tank is arranged differently. There are no rubber pears, no rusty wires and hooks. There is a certain block inside the built-in tank - a drain device. And nothing more

Whirlpool Baths

Whirlpool Baths

In its simplest form, a whirlpool bath is a tub of any shape, color and size, equipped with a pump, 6-8 nozzles and a pneumatic control panel. The nozzles have movable ball-shaped

Tankless Discharge - Drukspühler

Tankless Discharge - Drukspühler

A small diameter tube 50–60 cm high departs from the toilet bowl, the upper part of which has a cylindrical shape. This brass cylinder is the body of the flush itself. It is on it that

Restoration Options For An Old Bathtub

Restoration Options For An Old Bathtub

Are you really tired of an old peeling bathtub, the mere sight of which just makes you sick? Enamel has long lost its luster, and in some places has worn off and covered with cracks? Rust has eaten in so that nothing is

Suspended Plumbing

Suspended Plumbing

Not only ceilings are suspended. And not only the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. In the early 80s, the history of the development of plumbing equipment was marked by the appearance of a suspended, or as it is also called, wall

Bath And Toilet Renovation Tips

Bath And Toilet Renovation Tips

When repairing pipelines, you can use not only steel pipes, but also brass, copper and metal-plastic pipes, since they are more durable, more technological and environmentally friendly. For mixer operation

Where To Install The Mixer

Where To Install The Mixer

Not so long ago, only one type of bathroom faucet was possible. This is such a combined option - both for the bathtub and for the sink - with a common long spout that turns as needed here and there

Tips For Choosing Water Filters

Tips For Choosing Water Filters

Choosing a filter for many of us turns into a real problem! What should be guided by, we often cannot answer, sometimes the choice is due to bright advertising, product design, and not real

Replacing The Seals In The Tap

Replacing The Seals In The Tap

If the top of the faucet cannot be unscrewed, the following will help you: wrap the faucet with a rag and pour hot water on top. As a result of heating, the metal will expand slightly, and the screw connection

How To Choose A Small Instantaneous Water Heater

How To Choose A Small Instantaneous Water Heater

A small instantaneous water heater is able to heat a not very large amount of water to the required temperature. Therefore, in order for the jet to be stronger, very small holes are provided in the shower head

How To Avoid Clogging The Drain Tank

How To Avoid Clogging The Drain Tank

The shiny new cistern had a custom fill inlet, so a flexible hose had to be used to connect it to the central pipe. This is, if someone suddenly does not know, such

How To Filter Water In An Apartment

How To Filter Water In An Apartment

Does a city apartment need additional water purification? There are at least two arguments "for". Firstly, water for municipal water supply is treated only from the most dangerous contaminants (moreover

Siphon Device

Siphon Device

Let's dwell on water locks, or siphons. In general, we should talk about them in relation to sinks and sinks, but given their great importance, these devices are also considered as an independent phenomenon

How To Purify Drinking Water?

How To Purify Drinking Water?

Do you drink tap water? No? And you are doing the right thing: the water entering our homes, as a rule, requires additional treatment. Moreover, untreated water can be poisoned. Easy. Or ruin dear

How To Choose And Install A Sink

How To Choose And Install A Sink

We sell imported sinks of various sizes and designs. Actually, according to the type of installation, there are two options: sinks that cut into the tabletop, and those that are put on the cabinet as a cover

Types Of Siphons

Types Of Siphons

A siphon is a curved tube with elbows of different lengths through which liquid is poured from a vessel with a higher level to a vessel with a lower level, with the upper part of the tube located above the level

Do-it-yourself Toilet Installation

Do-it-yourself Toilet Installation

But now that the cost of installing plumbing equipment is approaching the cost of the equipment itself, it makes sense to consider expanding your repair qualifications

Single-lever Mixers: Ball Or Ceramic?

Single-lever Mixers: Ball Or Ceramic?

If you are used to washing your hands with soap and water, then you are probably a fan of single-lever mixers. One single knob controls both the pressure and the temperature of the water. Simple, convenient, hygienic

DIY Shower Cabin

DIY Shower Cabin

It's nice if the shower is comfortable and beautiful. It is not at all difficult to make it yourself if you have the time, material, tools and desire. Shower enclosures with a flat base or a simple floor drain

How To Make A Toilet In The Country

How To Make A Toilet In The Country

Do you need a toilet in the country, but you are not going to do sewage yet? The simplest, easiest and most inexpensive way out is a dry closet - a portable toilet that works autonomously, that is, it does not need to be connected to

Outdoor Sewerage

Outdoor Sewerage

Today there is a lot of information on the use of various types of plastic pipelines for internal engineering systems, including for sewage systems. But what can the manufacturers of plastic

Kitchen Sinks

Kitchen Sinks

In terms of shape, sinks are single or with several bowls (most often two), round or rectangular. Classic sink - rectangular with one bowl. Once upon a time it was cast iron and covered with a layer

Wooden Baths

Wooden Baths

Oddly enough, it is those materials that are now considered exclusive and unusual, at the dawn of the birth of the bath culture, were just the norm for creating baths

Pipe Repair

Pipe Repair

We will talk about the overhaul of the pipeline another time, and now we will focus on the elimination of local damage and preventive measures to protect the pipes

Copper Pipes For Home

Copper Pipes For Home

So, you started a thorough renovation in your house and decided to change the old, useless pipes for new, reliable and safe ones. The question arises before you: what to choose? Let's try to figure it out

Bath And Shower - A Comfortable Combination

Bath And Shower - A Comfortable Combination

Life shows that the shower is used by the user much more often than the bath. And yet, most Russians cannot live without a bath. In addition, with large bathroom spaces, not everyone can

How To Install A Bath

How To Install A Bath

Baths are: recumbent, sit-down, half-baths and deep shower trays. Enamel baths are still in the greatest demand in Russia

Selection And Installation Of A Borehole Pump

Selection And Installation Of A Borehole Pump

Well parameters are fundamentally important to the user, as they are used to calculate the required head and performance of the selected pump. In the well passport, the drillers must indicate such

Doctors Demand To Replace Drinking Pipes Made Of PVA With Asbestos-cement

Doctors Demand To Replace Drinking Pipes Made Of PVA With Asbestos-cement

As a result of research, it turned out that there is no better material than chrysotile asbestos, because it does not react with chlorine contained in drinking water, unlike pipes made of PVC or cast iron, which

Composite Baths

Composite Baths

In addition to acrylic, cast iron and steel, so-called composite materials are used today for the manufacture of bathtubs - polymers with the addition of a natural filler (stone chips). Cast marble (or

Cast Iron Baths

Cast Iron Baths

Cast iron enameled baths are still very popular. The method of their production has not changed much since ancient times, but today, to obtain a better surface, they are used

How To Choose A Pump For A Water Supply System

How To Choose A Pump For A Water Supply System

What kind of pumps are there and how not to be mistaken in their choice? The most important factor when choosing a pump for water supply is the depth from which it has to raise water

Repair Of Plumbing In The Apartment

Repair Of Plumbing In The Apartment

Overhaul of plumbing in an apartment cannot be done without replacing communications (sewers, hot and cold water pipes, shut-off valves)

Filters For Water Purification

Filters For Water Purification

Water commonly used in domestic and industrial water supply systems contains a certain amount of solid particles in suspension, such as sand, rust, fibers, dirt, etc