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I am planning to install a marble shower enclosure. Is there any building regulations relating to minimum falls for the shower floor? I know you can get formers with the falls built in but I think I'll just be using a marine ply deck set at an angle.

I am planning to re paint the stone sills and mullions at the front of our house which have many years of stratified paint stuck to them. The house is circa 1910 and has mullions with ornate mouldings at their heads. The sills are of the same material, possibly sandstone. I'm wondering if...

I had a new combi boiler installed just over a year ago and I have noticed that the panel radiator in my living room has begun making a worrying sound which I can only describe as being as if iron filings are running through it, a sort of crinkling sound. It is intermittent and probably has...

Last year our 20 year old gravity fed boiler gave up so I took the opportunity to replace it with a shiny new Worcester Bosch 27cdi Combi Boiler which, our plumber advised, would be a suitable replacement. Everything works fine although we cannot seem to get the room temperatures much higher...

We are having a problem with a pitched roof extension to a main building. The house is a 1910 end of terrace. The extension, which used to serve as an old outside lavatory and kitchen, has a pitched roof with interlocking double channel profile tiles. After replacing the kitchen door with a...

I have a front door I am having stripped. It has two Banham Security Locks on it that will need to be removed before I can send it off. Main one is a Double throw Rim Latch type lock the other secondary one is a Mortise lock. Are there any tips on their removal. The Rim Latch has one big screw...

I have just had a burst within one of the flexible copper tails trailing from my old Kitchen Mixer Tap (Hot). These tails are fixed and not removable. I therefore went out and purchased a new replacement mixer tap however I notice that the contemporary designs have altered in the way they are...