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I am after some advice on removing grease from bare plaster before tiling on it. Our kitchen was completely replastered about 18 months ago and due to a combination of laziness and other priorities I am only now getting round to tiling. Because of this I now find myself in the situation where...

I've got a problem with condensation forming on the backs of my kitchen cabinets and on metal pans in them along the back wall of my kitchen. The issue seems to be caused by the kitchen itself getting hot and steamy and the space under and behind the cabinets being freezing. Would...

Our central heating pipes run under our bathroom floor in notches in the joists and due to the notches being less than regular in depth the pipes clang sometimes when you walk round above them. I've tried squeezing pipe insulation round them in the notches to stabilize them but there is not...

I've just bought a 25Kg bag of knauf bonding compound plasterboard adhesive to dot and dab a small area of plasterboard but I can't seem to find instructions anywhere on what ratio of powder to water this should be mixed at. The packet just say to pour it in to an unspeicifed quantity of...

The fireplace in our bedroom was blocked off with a piece of hardboard, i have opened it up and taken out all the rubble and now want to build a recess in to it. Is cement particle board a suitable material to close it up with (vented of course) bearing in mind that at some point in the...

At the weekend the air inlet valve on my boiler decided to become a water outlet valve. On Easter Sunday. In the middle of the night. :evil: I have since had the boiler fixed but it spent a good 8 hours dripping water on to my kitchen surface, which made its way down the join between two...

HELP!!! Does anyone know if there is in existence a 15mm to 3/8" tap fitting? They seem to exist in the flexi hose variety but not as a straight connector. I did have the connection made up with a 1/2" to 3/8" adapter but because of this the seal had to be along the rubbish plastic...

At the weekend i knocked a hole through my kitchen wall for my cooker hood vent, it is the 5" rectangular type. All looked fine when i first knocked it through as the brick above the gap in the inner skin of the wall appeared to be spanning the hole i had made, but on closer inspection, after...

OK now im really confused, does my kitchen sink need earthing or not, it seems that different versions of the regs say different things, the sink fitting instructions came with lots of writing in bold about how the sink must be bonded, but I've seen people on here who seem to know what they are...

Can the connection to power a cooker hood be taken as a spur off the supply side of 45amp cooker switch and plug socket using 2.5mm T&E? The switch/socket in question is on 6mm T&E straight from the CU.

Is it ok to not run earth to the terminal on a back box sunk in to the wall on metal faced sockets as long as it is run to the terminal on the socket itself so that the face is earthed? I assume that the contact between the screws, the face plate and the back box mean that if the front is...

I bought some 12v 20W mini recessed spots which came in packs of 5 with one transformer and an already made up cable which is 1mm2 twin. I cant use the cable that was included because it is too short. If I make up my own cables what diameter cable do I need to use because the total run to...

Help! I've just retiled my entire bathroom and i've just got to the point where i'm going to fit the sink (a pedastal type) to the wall. This is where the problem begins. I've just merrily drilled through two of my tiles and discovered undernearth a rather thick layer if plaster. On of the...

I fitted a new toilet a couple of weeks ago and everything seemed fine, but it now appears to be leaking at the point were the water flows in to the cistern. Its one of this little ones with a push button flush and no ballcock. The place where its leaking is between the body of the cistern and...

I am replacing the floorbaords in my bathroom with 18mm plywood to give a nice level surface to tile on. My Question is: Do I need to leave expansion gaps between the boards and if so how much?

I'm going to be laying tiles in my bathroom soon and realise that i should put a screwed down layer of 6mm (minimum) ply over the floorboards before i start tiling. However this will give me a large step up in to the bathroom from the adjoining room. Seeing as it is not a huge area...

I want to fit my bathroom extractor fan in the ceiling and vent it up what remains of the Chimney stack. This is currently open to the elements at the top. Would I be better off: a:) running ducting all the way up the chimney (3m approx) and then putting a cowl on this and getting it...

How thickly can you apply undercoat plaster? I have removed a chimey breast in my bathroom (following the instructions of a structural engineer) but it has left a large recess where the wall goes from a double skin to a single skin of bricks. I've applied a thick layer of mortar over...

How much do Transco charge for moving the gas meter? It's currently up on the wall just inside the front door and i want it stuck in a box outside. I reckon the work involved would be minimal, seeing as its a move of about 10 feet at the most.

I need to run 5 Cables (2 x 2.5mm T&E, 2 x 1.5mm 3 Core and E and 1 x 1.5mm T&E) down a wall under plaster where i only have room to chase out a 100mm gap. I'd like to run the cables inside conduit/ under channeling, but i cant seem to find any wider than 38mm. and if i use two of these the...