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Hi all, Hoping you can help. I’ve been tiling my shower and was ready to grout before putting a massive scratch on one of the tiles. I went to remove the tile but it’s taken the tanking and some of the cement board with it. As it’s in a shower, I want to do what I can to make sure it’s not going...

Hi, I have just poured some Mapei Ultraplan 3240 self leveller down to level the floor prior to fitting a shower tray. It says that it is walkable after 4-5 hours, does that mean I can install the shower tray after 4-5 hours or do I have to wait for the leveller fully cure first? Thank you!

Hi all, Really hoping you can help. I have attempted to build a “secret bookcase” door for my daughter. The door itself I’m happy with but despite hanging it three times, the bottom corner on the opposite side of the hinge side, sticks out by about 4cm when I close the door. Everything is plumb...

I have a shower enclosure that I plan to board with AquaPanel. The walls are brick and i dont have space to batten it out. Is there anything wrong with using a foam adhesive like DRYFIX or similar? I've used it for normal plasterboard but these sheets are 1220x800n and weigh in at 11kg a go so...

Hi all, So I have an not level ceiling so today I planned on removing it, sistering joists to straighten it up and then plasterboarding. The ceiling is lath and plaster that has since been over boarded, so a lot to come down. So here I was in the attic trying to kick the ceiling down and then...

Hi, I have a small space (1200x2800) for a bathroom. the back of the room (on the external wall) will be taken up with a shower and shower screen (The ones with the left side static and the right side slides open). I need to get the waste pipe from the toilet through the external wall to connect...

Hi all, Im turning my back bedroom into a bathroom and been scratching my head around how to get an extractor vent in as the external wall is over a lean-to roof and pebble dashed. The room used to have a chimney breast in it which has been removed by the previous owners, the chimney stack in...

Hello, I’m planning on converting my back bedroom into a separate shower room and bedroom. I’ve seen online a lot of guidance around clearances in front of toilets, part P for electrics etc but wanted to ask if there were any specific requirements for bathrooms. I.E you have to leave X amount...

Hi all, I have a basement that I want to use for storage. I’ve put down sub base and sand and visqueen DPM. Plan was to pour concrete slab but no concrete companies round here will pump 1m3 as they all have 2-4m3 minimum orders. I don’t have anywhere to mix up that much concrete myself so...

Hi all, I've just bricked up a old window in single skin outhouse and want to put in 100mm kingspan, board and skim the inside. Could you tell me how long i have to wait before getting cracking with kingspan and plasterboard? As its single skin i thought i could get started quite quickly as it...

Hello, Hoping you can help me with some advice. The trap door in the picture is really ugly and we are laying new laminate this weekend. I plan to get rid of that awful metal frame and use threshold bars cut at 45 degrees and glued to the door to hide the gap. I would really like to hide the...

Hi, I’ve turned my heating on for the first time in about six months and there is a drip coming the big black thing in the photo. Can anyone tell me what it is? Thanks!

Hi, The basement floor in my house seems to be half finished. Literally half of the floor looks like a thin layer of cement that has been poured over a plastic sheet which was on a bed of sand (with the dirt floor underneath the sand). The other half of the basement is just sand. I don't know...

Hello, I am going to lay a solid wood floor in a living room but there is a step down into the kitchen, how can i finish an exposed edge (it will be the groove not tongue) or is there a 90 degree bend i can buy to continue the floorboards vertically over the step? As you can see, it's a tiny...

Hi, Hoping someone can help. I have a wall (double skin cavity wall) that had damp. The damp problem has been fixed and the bricks are now dry. I have painted it with sand + cement tanking slurry with a waterproofer added. Can I get away with bonding and then skim? I’ve read somewhere that you...

Hi all, Im planning on starting a project to build some plantation style shutters for my bay window. In the plans i have, they use plywood, but I'm thinking it may be easier to work with MDF. Is there a reason you wouldnt use MDF in a project like this? These shutters would be on the internal...

Hi all, I have an upstairs bay window that has bitumen painted underneath it (I assume to prevent damp) and then been wallpapered directly on top and it looks god awful. Its single skin so I want to insulate and board. Can I stick insulation directly to the bitumen with foam and then board and...

Hello all, I am planning on taking my single skin utility room back to brick and then sticking 50mm of insulated plasterboard to it with foam adhesive. The room is currently off of my bathroom accessed by an internal door so is very very cold but damp free (only wetness on wall is from...

Hi, I have bought some trickle events to help with condensation. I’ve found out my window frame and sashes are reinforced. Am I ok to drill a series of holes through the reinforced part? I assume I need to get a special metal drill bit as mine don’t seem to be doing anything to go through it...

Hello, I have a utility room that is wet from condensation, freezing cold to the touch and really drafty with 2 air bricks and a extractor fan! The plaster is all shot and it's only single brick all external walls with an internal door separating it from the bathroom. I assume this may have been...