Recent content by pnburdon

thanks, here is my best shot at a diagram, hope you can make it out. Solid lines are pipework, dashes are walls we have air bricks and pipes running between the air bricks and the cavity under the floor of the house, because the extension has a concrete floor

Hi, new poster hoping someone might be able to help me with an issue that has me at the end of my tether! For almost a year we have been experiencing intermittent sewer gas smell in our house. 2 years ago we had a rear extension done, including a downstairs WC, which involved re-routing some of...

Right- best get the sledge hammer out then! Thanks :|

Hi, I bought my house 2 years ago and have finally gotten round to trying to sort out the back garden. The previous owner has built a kitchen extension that juts out from the middle of the rear of the house, leaving difficult to use spaces at either side. One one side there is just a concrete...

Hi, twice in the last month my car (03 Zafira 1.6 Petrol ) has failed to start and had to be jump started. This is the only times this has happened (had car 18months) and on both occassions it happened after the engine had been running in idle for a few minutes with the heater on. Jump/push...

The reason for the gap between the tiles is that the tiles around the sink are different to those around the bath. same colour/range but scored to look like small mosaic type (I am also using this type as a feature stripe up the middle of the bath wall) I agree will you about the cill -...

Ok then richard - as you seem to be my personal consultant on this job :wink: and seem to have lots of tiling experience... Here is a dodgy pic of my bathroom if i was to put tiles (in yellow) at the end of the bath. we want a gap between bath tiles and sink tiles so the problem is...

Hi - hope have posted this in the right place. I am refitting my bathroom and have a bit of a quandry. We have a bath where the taps are in the middle as opposed to the end (see pic) I am going to tile the back wall along the long edge of the bath behind the taps - but am unsure what to do...

Two more ?s about the sealer primer...can you suggest a couple of names for sbr primers? Screwfix do a mapei primer g - is this the same? Also you say seal the underside and edges - so I should paint primer on the entire underside of the ply? WHat is the purpose of this? Thanks

Thats pretty comprehensive! Thanks

So I took Richard's advice and took the chipboard back to the shop and boughth some 18mm WBP plywood which I have laid on the joists. So next question is (not really a tiling question mind..) what size/type screws are best to fix ply to joists and what distance between? Also do I need to do...

Sounds good. Have used Mapei in the past - I guess that is ok?

Richard - Nothing possessed me - I never inteded to tile straight onto the chipboard but I am not a pro and thought that it was standard to lay chipboard and overboard it. I didnt even know until yesterday that you could buy 25mm ply to use as flooring - although looking at it it's not cheap...