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Can anyone help me understand what has gone wrong with my planer thicknesser? It was working fine but getting a bit gunked up from stripping off bitumen from some parquet blocks so I took it to pieces and cleaned off al the bitumen etc. I put it back together and now the rollers don't seem to...

I have been looking for a frameless shower door to suit my alcove shower. I wanted the shower to be walk in but because the ceiling slopes I wont have enough room to walk round the panel. So I want to be able to open the panel (thus making it a door!) but I can't seem to find anything that is a...

I have recently had one of my rooms extended. The room has parquet flooring. It is finger parquet that comes in 460mm squares and is about 10mm thick. It started from where the old wall used to be and is gradually creeping further and further in to the room. I haven't extended the floor into...

Can any of you experts help me with this? I have Wedi board on my shower walls, I propose to tile down to the shower tray. I understand the logic behind waterproofing the Wedi board joints etc but presumably this will only ensure that the water, that ultimately may get through the grout, runs...

I am tiling the floor in my ensuite which will be slightly higher than the carpet in the bedroom. The door opens outwards in to the bedroom. Where should the tiles finish? Should they finish in line with the inside edge of the door (the ensuite side), the outside edge (the bedroom side) or...

My dishwasher keeps filling up even when it is off. I am assuming that this must have something to do with an inlet valve that is leaking. Can anyone explain where to find this on a Bosch semi integrated dishwasher? What does the aqua stop do? Could it have something to do with that? I think...

Can anyone recommend a combi that can be used with a vented tank? I've looked on all the usual sites and most seem to suggest that their boilers can't used with a vented hot water tank.

I'm getting myself all confused. Can you guys give me the benefit of your experience. I have an inlet flow rate of 14l/min - don't know the pressure. I want to be able to run a shower and maybe a bath at the same time but this isn't essential. I just don't want to have the shower fizzle out if...

I am looking to replace my boiler with either a combi or a megaflow. The main problem I have is that the mains pressure only provides about 14L/min. Does this mean that I may as well have a combi because I won't get any benefit from the megaflow?

I am looking to replace my boiler with a combi. However because the water supply is very hard I currently have a water softener. Are water softeners compatible with combi boilers or do they affect the flow rate of water to the boiler?

My shower pump is installed in my airing cupboard which is next to my bath/shower. The pump is connected to the hot water cylinder via a flange at the top of the cylinder. The hot water pressure is pretty feeble at the best of times but intermitently the hot water doesn't come through at all...

I have an old bath tap/shower mixer unit. the hose to the shower head is split and I need to replace it. However all the hoses that I see have different fittings. My hose has male fittings on both ends whereas all the new ones seem to have female fittings. I have a picture on my old hose in my...

Hi guys, I have an existing parquet floor which I would like to extend in to my hallway. The trouble is that the hallway floor (carpet on top of concrete) is already level with the parquet (the concrete is level with it - carpet on top) and I don't really want different levels when I lay the...

I have removed an old hearth and now want to extend the herringbone floor over the old hearth. The floor beneath the old hearth is broken up and a bit lower than the rest of the floor. Can I just level it with sand and cement/concrete (Some of it will be pretty thin i.e less than 5mm) What's...

I am installing a power shower with a shower mixer unit. It is a crosswater design thermostatic mixer which I intend to fit through the shower wall in to the airing cupboard behind. All fairly straight forward except I can't see a simple way of fixing the unit securely to the wall as there are...