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We had a shower cubicle fitted 12 months ago and have the problem that it doesn't drain well and water quickly fills up the tray. The shower is in a downstair bathroom and is raised on a plynth. The pipe runs from the shower along one wall, out the house and along into the drain. I have...

Hello Just a couple of questions as I embark on painting the outside of our rendered house. 1) Telephone wires - There are two of these and they are black. Can I paint masonry paint on to them, do I try to paint around them, or is there something I can paint on them first to make the...

Hello Just about to paint the masonry rendered exterior walls of our house. I have also just built a wooden box to hide our gas meter which I want to paint the same colour as the walls of the house. The wood is currently bare. My question is, if I paint the wood with primer then...

Hi all. We wrote to Dulux with photos of our terrace of houses and asked for colour recommendations, they sent us some and we picked one of their choices. I have since lost the letter and all contact details for who helped us. However our local dulux centre tells me that the colour 'Linnet...

Hi Our garden is 4m wide x 7m long with a shed at the end of that patch. I have cleared the old turf and stuff that was on the patch. Currently it is just compacted earth with a few sprouts of grass here and there. I need to prep it for turfing. Was going to hire a rotovator but they...

Hi Ive just finished a decking project, and finished it by coating the boards with decking protector oil. My question is : Is it safe to put things like, metal BBQ feet on the deck and just leave them, or will the metal react with the wood (like it would with our oak worktops?) What is...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of some great online guides to building decking? I now have the wood I need but have some probably pretty simple questions about putting it together. 1) Beams will be 40cm apart, but how far apart should the noggins be? 2) 3 screws into each end piece...

Hi, technically more of a Gas question than plumbing but seems like most posts relating to Gas are in this section. The door on my plastic gas meter box has broken off. My understanding is that it is my responsibility to deal with the box. It is surface mounted not recessed. Found a new...

Hi Our Aerial on our roof seems to have gone kerput and is giving out a very bad signal even with the booster I have attached, looking up it looks like quite a basic one and some of the spokes are bent. Thinking about replacing, however we are an end terrace with a high gable end and the...

Hi Our phone line comes from a BT telephone pole via an ariel wire to a box on by the guttering. A cable runs from that box down the wall to ground level where it comes through the wall to the master socket. I want to re run the cable from the box to the master socket. I simply want to...

Hi I have some solid oak worktops ready to be fitted to our kitchen. I also have some natural clear beeswax to treat them with. Before fitting I was going to treat the underside with 4 coats of the beeswax Lightly sand, treat, sand, treat..... Then once fitted the top needs treating...

Hello So over the winter I cleared out the garden, dug up the old lawn, smashed up the concrete path and the patio. When I was done is was just a muddy area. The plan is to build some decking and turf the rest. Over the past 6 weeks lots of weeds have grown and some turfts of grass too...

Hi, come home from 6 weeks holiday to find two water related problems in the house 1) Cupboard where the boiler is housed, one of the pipes had developed a small slow leak and there is now mould and damp on the wall. Plumber has fixed the leak problems. What is the process / way to clean up...

I posted this at the bottom of another thread but I think it warrents its wn topic as there may be some further advice out there Hi Weve had builders in and they had a CORGI guy come and move our gas pipe for the free standing oven and put a bayonet connection on the end. I have the oven...

Hi We've just had builders in who have extended our kitchen and left it ready for me to fit the kitchen which I have duely started. They left it with all the plumbing pipes in the right palce for me so I just have to connect up to them. Where the sink will be the two copper pipes come up...

Hi, have almost finished fitting the kitchen. Just a finishing point. Where a cupboard is at the end I have fitted an end panel by screwing it to the cupboard as instructed. However I have 2 ends where there is a dishwaser/washing machine at the end. I cant screw it to the washing...

Hi all, I am new to tiling, having only ever done our bathroom floor previously. I embarked on the 10sq m kitchen floor with a lot of fear as not a single wall is square to another and there are lots of odd shapes too. Was very hard work but I did kinda enjoy it. Its not a brilliant job, but...

Hi there. I replaced a rad in the bathroom for a towel rad. Having done this I used the filling loop under the boiler to bring the pressure gauge back up to 1 bar. I then thought I would bleed all the rads in the house as this prob hadnt been done in a while and having completed this the...

Hello all It's OK, I understand the Part P stuff and the insurance invalidation stuff and the *risk of death* stuff and I am not proposing that I do this job myself. I am simply interested in learning and understanding coz I find it interesting. I've done a fair amount of reading in...

Hello There is a tree in our garden, the first 6 ft of the trunk are covered in ivy. I want to try and remove it but it is horrible. I thought of taking the electric saw to it (I have a B&D one that works like a chainsaw) and trying to carve it off. What happens to the tree if I cut it badly...