Dave’s top tips

Low level to close coupled cisterns

How can I change my old low-level toilet to a new close-coupled toilet without having a gap behind the cistern? Well there are two possible answers. You either move all of the outgoing pipework in your bathroom wall or floor, or you make a simple box that goes on the wall behind the new close-coupled cistern. The new cistern is then fixed to this box, which can then be tiled or painted depending on what you like. Even if the bathroom walls are tiled already, using strong construction adhesive you can stick the required timbers on the wall and then tack some plasterboard to them when the adhesive is dry. Make sure that you insert a timber cross member at the height of the screw holes which secure the cistern to the wall. The reason a low level toilet does not often exchange easily for a close coupled unit is because 99% of the time a low level unit has a waste outlet which goes down into the floor. If the low level unit you have has a waste outlet which goes directly through the wall or turns at a right angle out of the back of the toilet to go right or left away from the toilet, then you should have no problem replacing it with a close coupled toilet. If your low level unit goes into the floor, the floor outlet is too far away from the wall to allow an easy exchange with a close-coupled unit. You can either dig up the floor and install another pipe, or continue with the box method described above.

Regards

Dave Stevens.

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Hucclecote Townswomens Guild

Having started 2023 with a New Year's Lunch at Bowden Hall,we are now looking ahead towhat else is coming up this year ... a wide range of speakers at our evening meetings; bi-monthly lunches at various local pubs and restaurants, and a Cheese & Wine evening in the Spring,as well as other events still at the planning stagewatchthis space!

The Guild meets at the Hucclecote Community Centre on the third Thursday each month, at 7.30pm. As wellas the speaker or demonstration, there is a raffle, the sales table, and the chance to socialise over tea, coffee and biscuits. Guests and visitors are always welcome at our evening meetings - please feel free to come along on the night, or phone Linda on 617701 if you'd like more information.

Hucclecote Garden Club

February although a relatively short month, is still a time of preparation and tidying up in the garden. Organic-based fertilizers can be applied, the planting of trees and shrubs can continue, weather permitting. Prune winter-flowering shrubs that have finished flowering and climbers such as jasmine and late-summer flowering clematis. As far as vegetables are concerned preparation of seedbeds for veg can be done in February, as well as planting of fruit trees and bushes. Still plenty to be getting on with.

Our February speaker, Venessa Berridge is the County Organiser for the National Garden Scheme, Gloucestershire. Venessa will be sharing with us a short history of the National Garden Scheme as well as emphasing the benefits of gardening and good health. The NGS raises many thousands of pounds for good causes every year and many members of our Garden Club and local residents have no doubt visited one of the beautiful NGS Gardens in Gloucestershire open to the public. Venessa is speaking on Thursday 23rd February, 7.30pm at Hucclecote Community Centre.

Please come and join us, we meet on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Hucclecote Community Centre, doors open 7.00pm for teas/coffees with a 7.30pm start. Contact either Joy on Gloucester 553185 or Sue on Gloucester 543573.

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