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Hi We have a table top dishwasher in a caravan and I’m looking for an easy way to connect the water supply which is normally fed from a clamped connecter on the tap which is fixed for each wash. Could I use something like in the pic? The idea would be to connect like a garden hose. The female...

Hi Our washing machine has packed in so the new one is going to be sited in the garage (plumbing already there). Question is - how can we make the old cavity for the washing machine space into a kitchen cupboard? Do we slot a cupboard unit in or does it need to be built ‘bespoke’? Thanks Alan

Hi We have a recurrent crack in our landing. It’s at the junction of solid plaster to a brick wall and plasterboard to a blockwork wall so obviously some differential movement going on. The block is the knock through to the later extension. What is the best way to fill/repair the crack? Would...

Morning Planning out a garage conversion and trying to figure out drainage for an en suite. The en suite will have a shower, toilet and sink. I assumed that we would have to pump the waste as the stack is 9m away but we actually have a 150mm void under the floor. All current outlets discharge...

Afternoon Quick question please. I'm looking at a garage conversion in Scotland and note the requirement that the u values that need to be achieved differ based on the existing building. Is the 'existing building' the actual garage being converted or the rest of the house? Many thanks Alan

Hi I have one of this type of bath waste/overflow and the part that turns on the overflow to open the plug has come away. https://www.screwfix.com/p/pop-up-bath-waste/27022 The two parts screw together but won’t do it without the two parts being held together. Problem is that the back of...

Hi I’m looking to construct a step down from the patio doors to the garden. The difference is two brick. The opening is 2300mm so the plan is to use four 600mm flags across the opening bedded onto two course of brick. I was planning on a strip footing underneath the bricks, but is this...

Hello Bit of a strange one. Our boiler (Viessman 35kW) provides our hot water. It starts off fine and hot but a few minutes later the water runs luke warm. When it's running luke warm it heats up to hot again temporarily when another hot tap is run but then quickly goes back to luke warm...

Hello I have parquet in the living room. Knowing it's probably a sin, I need to cover it as its breaking up badly. It's breaking along the tongues of the blocks as its been sanded too far (not guilty) so it's not salvageable. I'm going to ply over and carpet, but wondered what the best way is...

Hello Bit of a weird one. We have two hard wired smoke detectors, one at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom. These are on the upstairs lighting circuit. Occasionally, switching on a light upstairs sets off the smoke detector, which stops once the light is switched off again. It's...

Hello I need to remove a pedestal sink and a back-to-wall toilet to replace some flooring. The bowl of the sink doesn't seem to have any screws fixing it to the wall, just a lot of silicon connecting it to the pedestal and I can see some between the back of the bowl and the wall. It seems...

All Bit of advice please. Our bathroom door has a rack bolt to lock the door and I want to change this for a lever handle and thumbturn arrangement. As the handle doesn’t have a lock on it just now the void in the door isn’t big enough to fit a bathroom set so I assumed that I was going to...

Hello all I need to change or replace the soil stack boss on one of the soil pipes to the house. Basically the existing waste pipe is 32mm solvent weld (36mm o/d) and only serves a single wash basin in the downstairs loo and the condensate for the boiler. I need to change the waste for a...

All Noted that the question about tiling behind a log burner has been asked before but does anyone have any experience with Vitcas products for tiling? I have pretty limited space around the log burner (meets manufacturer's requirements but pretty close) with hardibacker around. Are...

I have an attached garage that I want to convert part of into a utility room. The garage floor is 170mm lower than the rest of the ground floor and I need to build this up level. The garage was a 2008 extension before we bought the house so it's already insulated and has a DPM. Would if...

Hello The fan and light in my bathroom are operated via one double switch with one switch serving the light and one switch serving the fan. I want to change this so that the fan and light run on one switch and the fan is replaced for one with a run on timer. Can anyone advise what the...

Hello What is the best way to make a core opening wider in circumference? Just discoverered that the person who fitted my cooker hood chose to use a 100mm bathroom kit to vent it rather than the required 125mm, which means it doesn't fit the cooker hood adaptor (lots of duct tape!). I...

All That old chestnut again – any help much appreciated. I have been decorating a couple of rooms in the house. One wall has begun to crack (the crickled glass cracking), but weirdly only one. Prior to prep (usual wiping down) I tested the paint on one of walls in the room and it was...

I am looking at a new house and noted a small piece of render that has become detached. Also, an area around this about 100mm in diameter is also hollow. To me, the render coat seems very thin and more of a cosmetic finish. I would appreciate any thoughts, specifically on whether this is...

All Help! My (large) bath has an overflow to the centre rear. When turning the overflow, the plug pops up. A few weeks ago the external part of the overflow came off when I turned it to operate the plug. This should be a simple case of screwing it back in but I can't get any purchase...