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I am thinking of using cement backer boards around shower tray for the floor tiles, the tray is a stone resin one 30mm. at the moment there is no flooring in the bathroom, i just wondering which flooring would be best to bed the tray onto using a cement base

I'm renovating my son's house o joy, I need some advice on what type of floor to put down on the bathroom joists, OSB, Marine ply, or wooden floor boards. what ever it is I will also be putting down 6mm concrete board on to it for tiling, also we will be putting in a large walk in shower tray...

Yes I'm replacing all the rads and pipes, 22mm flow and return with 15mm branches off to rads. Hopefully my son's house will be a lot warmer with all the new insulation and modern rads.

my sons house is old with no insulation and very cold, so we are ripping all of the upstairs out, we have gone back to brick also taking the ceiling down except where the rads are, which I'm doing this weekend, so he's sleeping downstairs and still needs the heating on. then I will starting to...

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Thanks both, i will cut them right back to the new 22mm copper pipe and cap them, I never seen anything like it, also i found all the light switches had wooden back boxes lol, its a good job its got a new consumer board 3 years old to give protection

Hello all I’m currently stripping the upstairs of my son’s house, going back to brick. So I’m taking all the old radiator’s out upstairs just leaving the 22mm flow and return pipes up stairs, should I just cap them off or join them together, because he still wants to use the 6 rads down stairs...

No idea that's why I'm asking gap or no gap? I've nether plastered a skylight

Should I leave a gap between the stop bead and the glass, say 10mm

Hello all I've fitted a flat roof sky light on an upstand, do I need to leave a tiny gap between the plaster board and the glass ? or do i fit some sort of trim up to the glass and plaster up to that. Thanks for any advice

Many thanks you've been a big help

7kw i was shocked to find a 2.5mm 4 core i expected the usual 6mm 3 core

well it says 32A cooker circuit and must be hard wired into a 25A fuse a bit of a contradiction, got it from Currys

Hello all, new Belling hob has got 2.5mm 4 core cable ( 2 live, 1 neutral and 1 earth) , my cooker switch 45a connected to 32a mcb 6mm cable, then it goes to a dual 45a outlet plate for oven and hob 6mm cable. how do i connect the new hob it states it needs to have a 25a fuse, also im concerned...