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Cheers for the info. I wasn't aware of point 1 as I've always had isolation valves before each tap tail or Flexi in the past. Will stick some full bore valves in when I swap out the taps

I'm need to replace an old kitchen sink tap that's leaking at the base... (Could repair but the chrome has seen better days) The tap has solid copper tails and no isolator valves so I need to isolate the hot and cold before removing and replacing the taps. There's two stop cocks under sink...

Yep that's correct the new liner just passes straight through. Was already kind of thinking that removing the necessary material and re lintelling should be ok

It could be...I bit the bullet and gently chipped out the damage side and left with this As you can see that sloping section goes all the way back.

Want to add a course of brick across the top in green and subsequent courses above that to create a rectangular opening. This would leave hatched areas in red visible so Im trying to work out if these hatched can be removed with out causing a problem. The damaged one on the left is loose and...

Cheers. Yeah the left hand side looks like its already had bits hacked off and is pretty bashed up but nothing looks to be collapsing to be fair. Unsure how long it's been like that as I always thought it was a loose brick when looking up the chimney when inspecting what id be working with when...

I'm after a bit of advice on my fireplace masonry Anyone know what the part that has the two diagonals with the exposed steel reinforcing is called. Is it a type of lintel? Looks like may be supporting the masonry above but I'm not sure and wanting to know if I can remove it in order to...

Cheers all

Needing to brick across the horizontal gap across the top of my fire place after removing what once was a arch. Does it matter whether I use a soldier course or not? I mean does the soldier course the serve an actual function other than cosmetic? Is it structurally necessary? Will be using a...

Found the manual online for the stove but its still not very clear. Thought there would be some kind of industry standard for this given the amount of other detail included in part J of the regs. Managed to find a tecnhical details contact so will contact them in the hope they can confirm...

ive got a wood stove, already installed by previous owner with a copy of the hetas cert. I want to make a minor change to the surround in that i want to lower the wooden beam that sits above the fire place so that ive got a bit more space on the wall to hang a TV Im trying some definitive...

Yeah it was some kind of metal tie screwed into the beam and going up into the wall somewhere. Multi tool cut through it easy enough and revealed a couple of small cutouts that I can tidy up

I'm trying to remove a wooden beam from a fire place that is sat onto of the brick work either side of the fire. Initially it looked like it was just sat on top of the brick but it's got a couple of metal straps either side that appear to go up into the void behind the plasterboard. I'm going...

Trying to match some mortar for the brickwork around my fireplace. The round biscuit is the best sample I've knocked up so far with yellow building sand and regular cement at 6;1... Still a bit too grey so looking to get some powdered mortar colouring but unsure about what colour I need...

Hi all. anyone able to identify the type of brick/material used in this fireplace recess? I'm installing a wood burner and want to know if I can drill into this material and plug it ( with metal plugs) without splitting the brick in order to fit a frame to take a register plate