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Several years ago we had new central heating pipes laid in the floor of the living room which were going to be covered with screed once we did the rest of the room up. Plumber had just covered them in the felt lagging. The lagging was just fabric not the ones which also had a plastic backing so...

Hi our 50's house has rising damp. We had barrier cream injected a year or so ago but due to the floor level it was done one brick up as the floor just covered the mortar line. Due to this we were advised to also paint the wall with a damp seal to be on the safe side. I have two questions I'm...

Hi We've had an extension done for a kitchen diner which included some electrical work, sockets and lighting, but we've got some extra work done as well. I just wanted to check average costs as some of the extra charges seemed a bit high (some seem fine) but before I think about saying anything...

Hi The water level in our upstairs loo has risen so it is now a couple of cm higher than it used to be. In addition if it isn't used for a period of time (overnight) the water in the bowl will be yellow indicating that something is seeping back in. I thought this might be an indication of a...

Are Wickes cabinets as good as rigid cabinets? We will be mostly fitting our kitchen with our builder helping us fit the trickier bits and separate installers for the Worktop. Our builder has recommended we buy rigid cabinets not only because they will be easier to fit but that they are also...

Hi, which is the best method for a shower internal corner, sorry if these are silly questions. I had been trying to leave about a 3mm gap between the tiles in the corner so I could run a bead of silicone up it. The measurement on the bottom tile went a bit wrong and after checking the gap it is...

We're laying fairly large (600 x 300) porcelain tiles. On one that is going on the window cill the corner was chipped when cutting (score and snap). The chip will be at the back of the cill and am contemplating whether it can be glued back onto the tile as we are low on tiles. The chip fits back...

I'm looking for some advice on how to tile round a window. In what order should the tiling be done is it the wall first and then the window reveal, I also have some straight edge trim that we might use. The window ledge is also not quite level. Photo of the window below, the tiling will go more...

The skirting I'd like to put on our walls is about 5-6mm deeper than the door frame, see pic below, sorry it's a bit blurry. Walls had to be dot and dabbed which brought the wall out, how can we get the skirting to fit level? Skirting is Torus 18mm deep. Thanks

Hi we have solid bamboo flooring which we're laying in part of our bathroom. Manufactures state it is suitable for bathrooms as long as it is painted with a polyurethane varnish to seal it. Any recomendations for a good quality water based one, the area to be varnished is only 2 square meters...

Hi Do you have to wait four weeks before you can tank and then tile on new plaster, the BAL WP1 data sheet states that new plaster must be at least 4 weeks old before tiling. My other half does not think tanking is necessary unless you are doing a wet room (we are doing a shower with tray) and...

Hi, Our bathroom has been skimmed and the plaster is now dry so I have started painting a mist coat with Dulux Supermatt thinned down by 25% water. How many mist coats do I need to do before we can begin painting with the top coat which will be Dulux bathroom paint, we were going to thin the...

Hi Looking for a bit of advice over number of down lights needed for a bathroom which is about 2.5m by 2.3m. I've found some IP65 LED down lights that I like which are 4.5w and 275Lm. I've looked at a couple of online calculators for how many lumens I'll need for the bathroom which range from...

Hi We are in the process of doing our bathroom and will be building a plinth which a freestanding bath will be on and looking for some advice on the best way to build it. The area will be approx 2280mm by 864mm. The joists in the floor run horizontally, floorboards vertically. There are pipes...

Hi Can any one recommend a reasonably priced wet saw for cutting different types of natural stone tiles up to 600mm x 400mm at 12mm thick. We will shortly be doing our bathroom with marble and travertine tiles and also next year we're hoping to do our kitchen which I'm thinking of possibly...

Not sure this is the right place for this but thought plumbers might come across this issue. We have had our whole central heating replaced (one pipe system) and in the process some of the black sludge from the old pipes has been splattered on the walls. Any ideas on the best way to clean this...

We have a 50's house that had a separate toilet from the bathroom. We have knocked this into one larger bathroom and a shower is going where the toilet was, there is a small window in the space which will be within the shower area. The plumber who also does tiling has recommended we board it up...

Hi we are getting our entire central heating replaced, currently on a one pipe system with hot water cylinder, immersion heater, cold water tank in the loft and the boiler is from the seventies and pretty much inaccessible in the corner of the kitchen. We are looking to replace it with a combi...

Hi I'm looking for a bit of advice/confirmation on moving a loft hatch. We have a 1950s house with a separate toilet by the side of the bathroom, which we will be making into one and the loft hatch straddles where the new bit of wall will go. We want to move the hatch down (towards the light...

We will very soon be updating our bathroom and I thought I found the perfect site to get it all from betterbathrooms.com, great reviews on the site, but looking a bit deeper found plenty of negative too. Just wondered what peoples experience was on here for them and also for Victoria plum and...