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Hi, In the midst of renovating rooms on the ground floor. It's an old church, with a concrete slab floor over DPM. I'm planning on insulating the floor with 50mm celotex, and was looking at putting 18 or poss 22.5mm T&G chipboard over the top for the subfloor. 50mm with floating chipboard...

hi, currently have a concrete sectional triple garage that I'm removing the fibre concrete asbestos roof and replacing with plastisol coated 0.7mm steel. I'd like to turn the three garages 8ft door and two 7ft 6" doors into one double and a workshop. Current roof joists are timber 150 x 47mm...

Hi, In the process of sorting out a fairly shabby conversion of an 1843 Church. The plan was to remove a corner fireplace in the kitchen and install a free standing wood burning stove. The outline plan was to break into the chimney flue 2/3 of the way up the wall and connect to flexi liner to...

Getting a little frustrated with my CH system. Symptom - poor circulation, difficult to balance. 16 Rads, 3 Towel Rails. boiler on top floor. Large property (converted church). Mix of Cast iron rads and modern. Magnaclean fitted. System is reasonably clean - only about 3 years old...

In the process of renovating a "renovation" in a old church. Situation: arch has been "built" around window header using pieces of celotex 50mm dot/dabbed onto existing stone work, with no mechanical fixings, gaps sealed with foam, and some fibre glass wooll shoved into gaps. Covered in...

I'm replacing some unreliable ornate brass TRVs on cast iron rads, with Honeywell HR80s. I want to replace the TRV bodies at the same time (as I doubt the HR80s will fit the ornate valves in any case, and many are leaking/stuck. However, I want brass TRV bodies rather than chrome, and I want...

Hi, Got a few queries - and hoping for some help: 1. Cast iron period radiators, with period style Gothic Thermostatic valves - possibly made by Bentley or similar - like this http://www.hotinteriors.co.uk/productDetails.php/872/gothic-trv-thermostatic-radiator-valve-antique-brass0...

Halfway through a tiling job onto hardibacker tanked with the Mapei Shower Waterproofing kit, we had a change of heart on the tiles and tile pattern. Cutting a long story short, had to remove tiles after a week, with inevitable damage to hardibacker and tanking. Worryingly, the Mapei...

As per the subject, it would be much simpler for me to run 2 x basins (main bathroom, and next door en-suite) joining via a swept tee into 1 40mm waste boss into the stack. Pipes will be 40mm throughout (unless that is unnecessary). Is that compliant? I know I'm best running separate...

Previous owner has made a bit of a pig's ear fitting door locks to some of the interior bedrooms. Think his chisel was a screwdriver. Anyway, the thin "striker" plate that the latch and the lock locate into, where he had a bad fit, he has just sawn out the metal between the two recesses. I...

Hi, Soil stack in main bathroom sits the other side of a stud wall to a planned en-suite. Stack has a 92.5 deg branch going off to the loo, and at 90 deg at the same level, the 43mm waste from the bath. At the same exact point I would need to join the stack in height terms, I would like...

Hi - have been doing some bathroom renovations. Will soon, I hope, be ready for painting the wall I had to strip back to studs for some plumbing work. All the walls in the (old) property have been insulated and drylined (no skim coat) when it was converted. So I'm going to do the same for...

Have been trying to understand if a Warrant is required to finish an en-suite that has been equpped with services under the original property conversion? House has a completion certificate, and the en-suite was provisioned for, but never equipped. (Basically plasterboarded and decorated...

Just wondering if it is acceptable to have a drop in a bath or shower waste part way along it's run (or at it's entry for that matter) Eg -----------\____________ Or \ \____________________ Thanks for any advice! Simon

Trying to overcome a plumbing routing issue for bath and shower waste, caused by a wacking great steel I beam. Can't go under, as the ceiling mounts to a wood casement and it's too early in the run to go that low. Can't go over, as that's just below the floorboards. Can't box the pipes in...

Having some diy dilemmas in respect of the raised floor I built, to be covered in 18mm WBP ply to raise a free standing bath and shower sufficiently to overcome some plumbing restrictions caused by a steel I beam. Having built it, I'm having a crisis of confidence. My queries are as follows...

I have just purchased a house that has a triple garage - pre-fab concrete with stone chip render on the front pillars and a flat corrugated (possibly) concrete/asbestos roof. It's not terrible, but the roof leaks, and it's not really in keeping with the old limestone walls of the house. Budget...

As the subject, wife has seen a colour she likes in C&R paint, and I'm wondering if the Eggshell version of their paint holds up ok in a Bathroom/Kitchen environment? Are there any good matt paints that work in these areas too? Not a huge fan of eggshell finish. Thanks, Simon

Two questions: What would you recommend as a durable paint for white painted wooden stair treads? Currently painted in a white, non-gloss (possibly satin?) white finish, but where feet tread, it's wearing through. We like the white steps, but I can see this being a recurring job without...

Hi, new to the forum, but have found it a useful resource. Just bought a house and am finding a few "niggles". First of which was in the family bathroom. Went to adjust the shower hinge, only to find that the shower had been fitted incorrectly. To cut a long story short, I've ended up...