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I'm no expert but I'll reply seeing as you haven't had a pro reply yet. Tanking is basically fully waterproofing the area. it's very important if you're tiling onto plasterboard or the walls around your bath/shower are plasterboard. You can buy tanking compound and kits. There's a 3 minute video...

No, I've removed all the old tiles and smoothed down any lumps and bumps as best I could

Cheers again. One last question, I've seen a lot of mention of not using products that are adhesive and grout in one however also from what I'm reading BAL products are highly rated so should a product like this [BAL Tile and Grout] http://www.screwfix.com/p/bal-tile-grout-7-5kg/25925 be avoided...

Cheers for the reply. I'll be using 250 x 200 mm thin ceramic tiles and an old plastered wall that's been tiled before. intend to tile the whole room so around the bath/sink. Wickes are selling a cheap watercooled cutter at the moment but I was thinking I could get a normal tile cutter for...

Hi All, I'm about to tile the bathroom in my house, I know they're be various obstructions to tile around and so I'll need to be shaping some tiles. I'm wondering is an Angle grinder with a diamond edged disc or a jigsaw with a ceramic blade a better option? The tile's I'll be using are...

Hi all, thanks for the replys, the hole was large enough to be bricked in, it was the cement which was very roughly jutting out and what appears to have been a layer of polyfilla or one of those white cavity fillers generously dolloped on top. That was easy to get off, the ridges of cement I...

I'm about to tile my bathroom. One wall must have once had a Boiler and the hole for the vent has been concreted in. This concrete is jutting out and there's no hope of a flat surface to Tile onto. What's the best solution to smoothing down this concrete

Hi both, thanks for your replies, the cable came in through the ceiling, currently there isn't a ceiling on the bathroom as I'm about to put new plasterboard up and re-plaster. I had intended on leaving the cable in the ceiling cavity (On the other side of the room) once the new plasterboard was...

OK, been looking into this further and found Document P: Electrical safety - dwellings (2006 edition), page 9 (General Guidance) paragraph M "The fitting and replacement of cookers and electric showers is not notifiable unless a new circuit is needed." Considering the only change is the...

Hi, In the process of doing up the bathroom in my house. There was an electric shower however I got a plumber to put a mixer on the bath instead as I have a combi-boiler, I had a head of steam on and went ahead, switched off the electrics removed the electric shower and shower pully switch...

This seems a very similar situation to what's happening with my pipe, must check the pressure when I get home //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=135006

Hi All My boiler in the house is in the upstairs back bedroom (2 bed terrace) and since coming back from a few week holiday I noticed the wallpaper on the wall in the dining room directly beneath was bubbling and damp. When I went upstairs the wallpaper around the boiler was damp too, and...

I've had a couple of quotes now, I won't bother mentioning Everests but a local Fensa accredited firm quoted me 3450 to replace the front bay window and for 4 windows around the house that are a decent size, roughly 5ft by 3ft each. Would anyone in the know comment on whether this sounds like a...

Thanks Egmel, since posting this topic I've had a look round the web and seen very bad stuff spoken about safestyle uk and that Everest is vastly overpriced. It's really hard to know who to go with but the general concensus seems to be stick with someone local so I'll keep looking

I'm doing up my first time by but there are some jobs I don't think I should take on on my own :wink: so basically I'm based in south wales and looking to replace the windows and bay front window on a mid terrace house, does anyone have any recommendations for companies to go with or avoid...

Cheers PrenticeBoy, They haven't been already skimmed, there's no paint or anything so obviously just a base coat to put the wallpaper over whenever it was done. I'll do the two coats for safety sake so, cheers for your help

Yep, the walls paper is all stripped and I washed down the walls to get all the glue and gunk off so I should be fit to go really. The post by Wozza mentions putting two coats of PVA on (1 coat left set for a day), do you think thats necessary, the walls aren't in too bad condition underneath.

Ah, wasnt til I clicked on your link I realised Thistle IS British Gypsum so I have the right stuff, doh. Cheers for the links, the walls have old plaster basecoat on them that had been wallpapered over and, as you can imagine over many years the bumps and scrapes built up so I don't think I...

Thanks for your replys, I got Thistle MultiFinish which hopefully is as good as British Gypsum so I'll be revving up the trowel tonight for another bout of wall ruining :wink:

Thanks Wozza, very much learning by my mistakes and the moment, and there's plenty of them, that's great advice about the Pva and I'll pick up some multifinish tonight.