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Hi everyone, hope you are all safe and well. I will soon be fixing "Tier" contemporary stone panels to all the corners and either side of the front door to a new build bungalow. I am thinking that the panels would look a hell of a lot better if fixed down to the driveway and paths but obviously...

Hi everyone, hope you are all safe and well. Have posted this in this section as I'm thinking this is essentially exterior tiling. I will soon be fixing "Tier" contemporary stone panels to all the corners and either side of the front door to a new build bungalow. I am thinking that the panels...

Hi everyone, Apologies if this has been done to death but I did do a search and cant find anything on this. Will be tiling a ensuite very soon and the customer wants brick bond pattern for the tiles. That's the easy bit :sneaky: If you can imagine looking at a rectangle from above but with...

Hi everyone, I am the main contractor overseeing the renovation of quite an old large property. This week we have the underfloor heating company, chosen and contracted by my customer, in to lay in all the UFH pipes, fit the manifolds and connect up ready to fill the system and pressurise ready...

Hi everyone, Merry Christmas and a happy new year to come:) Have a little problem to solve on a platform for a bath to sit on that I have to tile. One of the corners of the rectangular platform is rounded off and I need to trim round this and along the straight edges. I am well aware that you...

Hi all:) Have just stripped the roof timbers off an out building only to find that the flank walls to both sides run out of level by possibly as much as 6 inches from one end to the other. This is info provided by the bricky who says it will be tricky to level this out with brick work and for...

Hi all :) I am in the process of fitting the Grohe rainshower system. With reference to the "S" unions supplied on the kit I understand that the 22mm end of this goes into the shower valve unit but cant see how you can attach a 15mm pipe with olive and compression nut to the 15mm end as...

Hi all, Can the following be done? I have a 3g light plate in the kitchen of which 1g is not used. I want to use this spare to switch the plinth lights on and off but realize there is no neutral here so would the following work ? ... Fused spur off the kitchen ring main to a suitable...

Hi all, Central heating just stopped on me, gave the pump a gentle tap and it kicked in but only for a short while. Its a grundfoss ups 15 50 which i replace for new as its been in since 1986. Opened up the valves, unscrewed the big central nut to let out any air and it seemed to be making...

Hi all, Have just completed the main structure of a rear extension where the flat roof is a balcony with all the relevant steel supports in place. Thing is customer has changed her mind and now wants concrete slabs laid on top of the parapet at the perimeter of the roof/balcony - all fine...

Hi all, Have just completed the main structure of a rear extension where the flat roof is a balcony with all the relevant steel supports in place. Thing is customer has changed her mind and now wants concrete slabs laid on top of the parapet at the perimeter of the roof/balcony - all fine...

Hi everyone - was wondering if anyone has ever fitted or tried to fit one of these ? I have, as a builder, fitted hundreds of shower valves with no problems until I came across this thing !! The instructions consist of 5 pictures and which one of these relates to the unit I have god only...

Hi everyone, I have two seperate outside light systems, both with pir's and both say you can fit an override switch, no problem so far but on the wall inside the house the space is fairly limited and i understand the override switches have to be a fused switch and not a normal lighting switch...

Hi all, Been asked to plumb and waste a integrated washing machine and dish washer into a space bounded by a corner unit off the sink unit and an end panel at the other end. The space is almost exact for the appliances and both have an integrated door to be fitted to line up with the corner...

Has anyone heard of a company called Better Business Solutions? I was approached by this company a few days ago and it all sounds to good to be true. In short they offer the following: Millions of pounds worth of contracts as leads for me to go and price up in the Southampton/Portsmouth...

This has got to be top of the hate list :!: How many of us are plagued by slick sales people trying to sell us something over the phone. Even though you ask straight away what they are trying to sell they still insist they are not and are doing you a favour :shock: Tell us about the...