Showing posts with label convert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label convert. Show all posts

Friday, January 19, 2018

Convert Your Toilet Into a Modern Bidet Sprayer for £36.00 a Hygiene Solution Everyone Should Adopt! : 6 Steps

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Toilet Paper is Not Your Best Hygiene Choice! Saying No To Toilet Paper and Improving Your Hygiene is Easy and Costs Next to Nothing when you convert your existing toilet into a modern bidet sprayer toilet.
There are many bidet adapters on the market to suit everyone's pocket, ranging from an all bells and whistles digital experience with warm air blow dry and front and rear jets. Some include a toilet seat, while others, including this one, will bolt underneath your existing toilet seat and with very little effort can be coupled up to your washbasin pipework using supplied nylon adapters.

From start to finish including filming this video took less than one hour. This simple gadget helps to prevent infections, provides a level of personal hygiene equivalent to taking a shower each time you use the toilet and saves you money that would normally be spent on toilet rolls, wet wipes and female freshening products. Not convinced? Think about this for a minute: "Instead of smearing excrement around your derriere with expensive toilet paper, which is unhygienic to say the least, you can experience a warm water jet cleans and feel fresh and clean when you leave the bathroom. You will of course need to have a small flannel towel for drying yourself but unlike the sacrificial toilet paper products and chemical arsenals, these can be washed and re-used time and time again. And if you really want to determine how hygienic toilet paper use is. Smell your fingers the next time you wipe your butt with toilet paper! The real winners from these great inventions will be people with poor mobility. For many even turning around to clean themselves becomes impossible and frustrating. Furthermore having someone clean you is embarrassing. These bidet's should be fitted as standard in every home where a person has poor mobility. My question is what are you waiting for?

Add to this the Incredible Environmental Costs of Toilet Paper. On an annual basis in the US, estimates range as high as... 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper used resulting in... 15 million trees pulped... 474 billion gallons of water consumed to produce the paper... 253,000 tons of chlorine applied in the bleaching process... 17.3 terawatts of electricity wasted No other species except us would come up with such an insane waste of our planets limited resources to merely wipe our pathetic back sides. ...the average person uses 57 sheets of toilet paper per day. A typical brand's 12-pack retails for $6.99 and has 352 sheets per roll, This should last a family of four about 18 to 19 days. That means that family needs to buy a 12-pack about 20 times per year, putting the annual toilet-tissue costs around $140. UK toilet tissue paper costs has shown that we pay £140.

I for one will never purchase another toilet roll. How about you?

Friday, December 29, 2017

Convert Two-Piece Valve To Single-Lever - Plumbing - DIY Home Improvement

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

How to Convert a Dual Valve to a Single Mixer Shower Fixture | Home Guides

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Converting to a single-mixer shower valve can be done without a major remodel of the bath.

Converting to a single-mixer shower valve can be done without a major remodel of the bath.

A two-handle shower faucet is installed through two small holes in the shower wall, and a single-lever faucet requires a single larger hole in the shower wall. When replacing a two-valve faucet with a single-mixer faucet, you are left with the challenge of the two existing holes from the old faucet. You will need to repair the wall to cover the two holes from the old faucet or use a repair escutcheon plate to cover all three holes.

Turn off the water supply to the shower faucet; this may require turning off all the water to the house. Remove the handles from the dual-valve faucet. Remove the escutcheon plates from behind the faucet handles. Remove the shower head by turning it counterclockwise.

Remove the access panel on the back side of the shower behind the faucet area. If an access panel doesn't exist, open the wall on the back side of the shower by cutting the drywall with a utility knife. Open the wall directly behind the existing shower faucet. Make the hole at least 12 inches square; you can increase the size later if needed for more working space. Locate the water pipes that supply the shower faucet.

Disconnect the pipes from the two-valve faucet. If the pipes are galvanized steel, unscrew the union nuts that join the faucet and pipes. If the pipes are copper, use a copper tubing cutter to cut the pipes about 6 to 12 inches away from the faucet. If the pipes are plastic, use plastic pipe cutting snips or a hack saw. Do the same with the pipe that supplies the shower head. Remove the faucet from the wall.

Attach short pieces of new pipe, 6 to 12 inches long, to the new faucet. Use the type of pipe your new faucet requires. If it's copper, you will need to solder the pieces into the faucet. If it has threaded connections, you can use male adapters that will transition to the type of pipe you want to use -- copper; chlorinated polyvinyl chloride plastic, or CPVC; or PEX, a flexible type of plastic tubing. Some faucets will have a tub spout port. Plug this port by installing a 3- to 6-inch piece of pipe with a cap on the end.

Place a mark on the front of the shower wall where the new faucet will be centered. This location should be directly between the two existing holes of the old dual-valve faucet. Check the installation specifications that come with the faucet for the proper size of hole necessary for the new faucet to fit through the wall; it should be about a 5-inch diameter hole. Use a power drill and hole saw to drill the hole.

Place the new faucet in the hole that you drilled. Hang the new faucet securely in place by nailing supporting pieces of wood braces between the framing studs and using plumbing support straps to attach the faucet and pipes to the wood braces. Instead of wood you can use metal support braces specially manufactured to support plumbing pipes.

Attach the short pieces of pipe from the faucet to the existing hot and cold water supply pipes using couplings. If joining two types of pipe, such as steel and copper, use manufactured transition fittings designed to attach the two different types of pipe. Attach the shower head pipe to the faucet.

Install the repair escutcheon plate on the faucet if you're using one. Install the new face plate to will help hold the repair escutcheon in place. Install the faucet handle and the shower head using plumber's tape on any threaded connections. Place a small bead of latex caulk around the outer edge of the escutcheon plates to prevent water leakage.

Turn on the water to the faucet. Check for leaks in new pipe connections and tighten or repair them if necessary. Repair the shower wall if you're not using a repair escutcheon plate. Replace the wall access panel or repair the wall opening on the backside of the shower.

Things You Will Need

  • Utility knife
  • Phillips screwdriver
  • Flat-head screwdriver
  • Pipe wrench
  • Hack saw
  • Copper tubing cutters
  • Plastic pipe cutting snips
  • Torch
  • Tape measure
  • PEX crimping tool
  • Power drill
  • Hole saw
  • Conversion shower faucet cover plate
  • Plumber's tape
  • Copper pipe
  • PEX pipe
  • Pipe fittings
  • Solder
  • Flux
  • Latex caulk
  • Wood boards for bracing
  • Manufactured plumbing support braces
  • Steel to copper transition fittings

Tip

  • If attaching copper pipes to the new faucet by soldering, first remove the plastic cartridge from the new faucet to prevent damaging it by excessive heat.

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