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Probably the stupidest question in a while so feel free to say so! A freak accident in the garage (falling timber) knocked the front off the boiler pressure gauge (needle and plastic front and the spindle the needle fits to). I have a replacement gauge and it is obviously a very simple job to...

Giant Hisense fridge freezer that has two rollers on the back (non adjustable), two rollers in the middle (non adjustable) and two adjustable feet at the front. When supplied the feet are wound all the way up which makes it a doddle to roll into place. The thing is that the deliberate design...

Fitting a new kitchen and mixer tap. HW is pumped at 2.4 Bar, CW is mains at 1.3 Bar. I am thinking that the only "danger" of contamination is of the higher pressure HW forcing back into the cold supply via the mixer tap. Is that right? In which case it seems I would only need a single check...

I am fitting a double belfast sink and it sits on top of a belfast sink unit with a flat top (minus the holes I have made for the two wastes). When the worktop is fitted it will be silicon sealed to the worktop where that overhangs by 10mm on back and sides, but should I be seating it in a bed...

The only way I can run cooker hood ducting in new kitchen extension is to run through a 300mm x 300mm brick pillar that holds up a newly installed steel lintel (wall knocked through). This rings alarm bells: the ducting should be 150mm diameter and surely I shouldn't be core drilling a hole...

Just puzzled really, no big deal, but the plasterers doing my new extension stuck plasterboard to the newly built walls and skimmed it. The finished result looks fine but I am just puzzled as to why they didn't apply a plaster base to the walls instead and then finish coat? It always used to be...

I need to rip up wobbly old floorboards and replace with a flat surface to lay vinyl over. To be level with the rest of the finished floor whatever I use needs to be 18mm thick. OSB3 or Structural softwood Plywood seem to be the best options, with plywood being more expensive. Any advice?

I know it's not really a good idea but I really have no other choice, I cannot get to the 22mm flow and return pipes. My main concern is the length of the pipe run of the existing rad: it is 8 metres away from the F and R and I intend to cut into it's 15mm about 5 metres along it's run. There...

I need to cover floorboards to lay vinyl click floor on in a dining room. The floorboards are sound and pretty level. I am thinking 9mm ply will do the job? Confused by the different types of ply though: Hardwood Softwood Marine WBP Birch Structural Non-Structural Advice on which to use would...

I have found some info suggesting that I need at least a 45mm deep back box (to be chopped into brick and plaster) for a network port faceplate. What I cannot find is what width/height the box should be. The single port faceplates I am looking at say "fits a 89mm x 89mm" back box. But all of...

Having an extension built to the dining room with existing wall knocked through. The dining room has floorboards. The current plan is to screed the extension to top of the dining room floor joists level. However I want to lay vinyl (either click boards or sheet) across the whole lot. As that...

I have an extension being built ready for a new kitchen. I intend to lay laminate flooring and all of the advice I have read suggests that best practice is installing the kitchen units first and then flooring up to them. Two questions: How do I finish the edges where the laminate meets end...

I need to: Blank off existing switch - fitting sufficiently rated connector strips (45A?) Extend the existing cable using a sufficently rated wall mounted junction box. Cable will run under floorboards. At new cooker position run cable up wall to new cooker switch. Cable to be plastered over...

This started because I need to buy new kitchen tap and need to work out pressure first. I got a pressure gauge and stuck it on the kitchen mixer tap with a rubber adaptor. This showed me: Cold 1.3 Bar, Hot 1.9 Bar. Now here is the puzzle: until I measured it I believed that I had very low...

I have to run a waste pipe from washing machine. It needs to run horizontally along the same wall as the consumer unit is on and needs to run approx 15cm above it. Is this okay or is there an "exclusion zone" around the CU for anything to do with water?

I need to add an additional rad in a new downstairs extension we have had built. The existing pipework runs (15mm) under the floorboards. I know that I need to cut into the flow and return pipes (presumably 22mm?) but it would be much easier if I could cut into the pipes for an existing...

I am looking at adding some radiators so calculated that my existing rads come to 15.4Kw and my boiler (WB Greenstar 24i)has a 24Kw output. So far so good, but I have read that boiler output is limited on installation to match the needed output. How? I mailed Worcester Bosch who replied that...

I am having an extension built and yesterday the brickie laid a few metres of cavity wall approx 1500mm high and filled it with rockwool insulation (I call it rockwool - wool/fibre stuff). They finished for the day and it has been torrentially raining ever since so the insulation is now soaked...

I need to fix a steel smoke hood to my brick fireplace. It has holes to screw into the inside top of the fireplace opening. Occurs to me that as it gets very hot then plastic rawlplugs are going to melt! Any ideas - I can't find fireproof plugs as something that exists!

I have to plumb a washing machine into a utlity room that has no easy access to the waste water drain. So, I have to run a waste pipe along the outside of the house for approximately 20 metres to get to the gulley. (I have to run the water supply like this as well so will put both in some sort...