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I've just notched my joists to allow a reroute of my central heating. However, the last joist turned out to be a flitch beam ( as just suggested by someone helpful in the plumbing forum). Re routing over or under it would be a complete nightmare as it runs the full width of the house. Is it...

I'm notching my joists to reroute some central heating in my house. The notches are 20mm deep (12.5%) and are centred 23% of the way along the span of the 160mm x 60mm joists to comply with building regs. The last notch I need to do is a double joist, but I've just noticed it has a 3mm steel...

I'm laying laminate flooring throughout a 3 storey house and have been umming and aahing about what to do with the stairs. I was going to sand the stairs and then paint the risers white, leaving the treads varnished wood. However, it turns out that the treads have been filled with filler...

I'm about to lay laminate flooring in my living room, dining room and the 2m hallway that connects the two. Is there a reason why I must put threshold strips in both the living and dining room doorways or can I just run the flooring through?

I have an internal, windowless toilet with an extractor fan. The fan is wired into the lighting circuit and comes on and off with the light (no timer). I'm having a shower added to this room so want to replace the fan with one with a humidistat and timer. Can I simply replace the fan or does...

Hi, I've got two, yes two, immersion switches on my living room wall. Behind the wall that they are on was an immersion heater tank in a cupboard. The tank and all wiring the other side of the wall has been removed in the past. The mystery is that the white switch light is on all the...

There are two redundant emersion heater switches on the wall in my living room. Behind the white wall was a cupboard containing the emersion heater which has long since been removed, but these switches were left. The wires come up to them from below. Would you drop them down to the skirting...

Hi, I'm just after some advice on installing a shower into my cloakroom. The cloakroom has a toilet and a sink in it and I wouldn't be doing the plumbing myself. I'm just having trouble understanding how the waste water from the shower is drained. Given that the shower drain is virtually at...

Hi, I want to add a radiator to my existing CH pipe work. My pipes are parallel in notches in the top of the joists under my floorboards. Lets say my pipes run north to south and I want to tee off to a new radiator on the left/west. I can't visualise how to tee off the pipe on the right...

Thanks for looking. It's on my bathroom wall, about 6 inches from the ceiling. I've got a light and an extractor fan in the bathroom so am wondering if it's connected to that? Thanks again. //www.diynot.com/network/statstastic/albums/

Hi all, I've just moved into a 3 story place built in 1976. On the first floor is a toilet with an emersion heater cupboard ( now empty) next to it. A 4ft long block work wall separates the two spaces. This wall sits on floorboards and a joist - running directly under the wall in the same...

Hi, I've just moved into a new home and have discovered a problem with my shower fittings - see photo... Water is dribbling very slowly (one drip per minute) from the top fitting and very quickly ( 2 pints per hour) from the front and back of the right hand side nut. I borrowed a large...

Hi, My new home has downlights set into the ceiling and no loft insulation over the top. I think this is because they are not sealed - they look like the cheap and chearful "Adjustable Downlight Satin Nickel MR16" from screwfix. The result of which is that my ceiling leaks heat like a sieve...