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Hello, I'd appreciate some advice. I had a tiler lined up to tile my wet room floor and sadly he's let me down at the last minute. I can't find anyone else at the moment and thought I might try doing it myself. I have tiled before but only large format tiles on a floor, although I've done...

I'd appreciate some advice please. Tiling wet room walls with 300x100 white ceramic tiles. Walls are plaster skimmed and tanked and aren't 100% plumb or straight. I fancied using brick pattern but have read the walls need to be pretty straight. Also wondering what the best grout width would be...

I'm in the middle of fitting this bar shower and it doesn't have any markings for hot and cold. There are a couple of dust caps in the box, one red, one blue, suggesting there's a hot and cold side but nothing on the bar itself and nowt on the instructions. I thought these things had a hot...

Would it be possible to trim the outlet pipes in such a way that you could still get a good seal? When I installed my shower bar valve fitting kit I had to bolt it onto the brickwork using threaded rods because any other way I tried didn't work. Drilling plugs into the brickwork caused them...

Hello, I'm considering fitting an Impey wet room http://www.impeyshowers.com/luxury-wet-rooms/wetroom-floor-formers/aqua-dec-easyfit.aspx The walls in my very small bathroom need either plastering or plaster boarding before this is installed. What's the best thing to do? Cheers!

I'd be grateful of some help please. I'm running some waste pipes between joists in my bathroom and when I lifted the boards the space between is filled with this stuff - in the bucket I've put this to one side for now. What is it called? Is there something I can replace it with...

I'd appreciate some help with how to manage this plastering work please. It's the first time I've had plasterers working for me. They came highly recommended from a friend. They have finished working in this room and I'm not happy with some of the finish. I expected, and asked, for the...

Hello :D I'd appreciate some guidance on the right way of doing this... I want a quiet extractor fan for my small bathroom, mounted in the ceiling because there is not enough external wall space - I'll vent this via the roof from the ceiling in the shower area. I also want to vent the...

I've inherited one of these in my new flat. It's situated 5 feet from the front door and unfortunately has 100 feet of cable wrapped up nearby. The hookswitch isn't working reliably. I want to shorten the cable and if possible replace the handset. Is this a DIY task or do I need...

Someone was supposed to have isolated a cable I was working on... It was the last cable to be removed after a long day working in the attic. I grabbed it and sunk my pliers into it. There was a bang and the pliers landed on the floor below. Thankfully they must have been well insulated and...

Hello! I'm renovating a second story (top floor) 1930's tenement flat in Glasgow. It has a tiled roof. I want to vent the bathroom and kitchen extractor fans through the roof. Preferably using only one vent through the roof. Can anyone help with: 1: Estimate of cost to do the roofing...

Morning folks! The Vokera Compact A 29kW has popped up on all three of the quotes I received for a CHS. Is this boiler good value and reliable? Thanks!

I would be grateful for your thoughts. I had a surveyor from a local heating firm round to measure up and gather requirements for a quote. We got to talking about copper pipe vs plastic and he offered to quote me twice - once for copper and once for plastic pipe. How much would would...

I learned to do rope and putty joints many moons ago. Is there an updated method of sealing a 40mm plastic to 3" cast joint? (I also learned to sweat lead to copper joint with a bread poke but that's for another day)

Help! Argh! :oops: I've gone and piped the waste through my flat in 50mm Osmasoil. And after drilling out the downpipe discovered that I bought the wrong size strap boss. I got 110mm instead of 82mm. It looks like Osmasoil only do 110mm ones. But there's a Hepworth one that seems to be just...

Hello! I'm renovating a flat in which I will live one day soon (haha!) and want to get a CHS installed. The two recommended installers I've been given by friends are both busy and unable to take on the work at the moment. I was given a third recommendation and the guy who came out...

Good evening! I'd be very grateful of some advice please. I am renovating a flat and need to move the waste pipe, running it from the kitchen, across the hall, through the bathroom, and out the brick wall to connect it to the waste/rainwater pipe which is 110mm black PVC pipe. This will...