What is a Soil Pipe? A soil pipe (sometimes known as a vent pipe, stack pipe and waste vent pipe) is the pipe that would usually connect to your pan connector that attaches to your toilet and would typically run externally down the side of the house or property and connect into the underground sewer […]

What is the difference between blue and black MDPE pipe? So, you need to buy some water pipe. You go online and visit your favourite online builder’s merchant, Easymerchant (obviously). You navigate to our MDPE pipe category sections, and suddenly you’re confronted with a number of options you didn’t know existed. “Argh!” I hear you […]

Find out How to Join Different Types of Plastic Pipe & Fittings Easily With Our Online Guide! At EasyMerchant, we carry a huge range of plastic piping; so we’re often asked about connection methods. With this in mind, we’ve put together a quick glance guide that’ll walk you through how to connect the following types […]

Read Our ‘When to Use and How to Install Plastic Soakaway Crates?’ Guide If you’ve got a standing water problem, you may have heard about soakaway crates – or, as they’re sometimes called; attenuation cells or plastic soakaways. Soakaway systems are an extremely effective way of dispersing water, without the need for planning complex draining routes […]

Can I fit a single skin oil tank? Or will I need a bunded oil tank? Another frequently asked question here at Easymerchant Limited, and we hope this handy guide will answer it for you: For some domestic oil tank installations fitting a single skin oil tank can be a suitable solution. This applies to […]

Find out which channel drainage rating you should use? Channel drainage ratings explained. Here at Easymerchant Limited we are often asked which channel drainage (called trench drain in the USA) rating will be suitable for the customer’s specific needs, and we agree to begin with it can seem fairly confusing. We hope that our handy […]