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I am tiling a bathroom for the first time. Walls prepared and primed.. and I have a dilema about the tiles. They are 300*400 (10mm thick). I understand I need to use a cement based adhesive. As this is the first time I am tiling - would it have been wiser to start with a smaller lighter...

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Hi, I have just removed tiles from a bathroom. This left the wall in a bit of a mess with old adhesive (scrapped of as much as i could) and a few small holes which I filled with plaster. Am I okay to "Tank" this surface? in the past I have only tanked on new materials. Will I still get...

Hi I'm going to be laying a plywood base onto chipboard before I tile the bathroom floor. When I did a previous bathroom 1 whole sheet was sufficient (not cuts). But in this bathroom I'm going to need to put 3 sheets down to cover the floor. Is there an issue doing this? i.e. i'm assuming...

All, Not sure if I'm posting this in the right place. I'm in the midst of obtaining permission to install a kitchen in a leased shop. The question I have is around extraction. The room I plan to convert has no additional ventilation (ie. Windows / Outside Extraction). It does however have...

Hi, I'm just about to sign a lease on a shop and want to know how much I would expect to repaint the shop front. The shop is in a conservation area so I need to adhere to heritage colours (which i am waiting for). Therefore how much should I expect to pay to repainti a shop front in...

Thanks guy's for the responses. I've been quoted £300 labour and a list of materials I need to provide (with his builders yard discount). Seems ok to me then. Yes - it's an external door, and that includes dogtailing all the way round.

Hi, I need to get a door bricked up. I will remove the door. However for a space of 79" x 34" how much should I expect a builder to charge me for the work (time and materials). I basically need the gap bricked up with bricks/breeze block, insulated, plasterboarded, plastered and skimmed ...

I used the top one. Crimped the earth cable and bolted it into the hole. Thanks for the advice. I do have some slack, but that's last chance slack, and if i mess that up, i really am stuffed !

I certainly have. Thanks to the wiki pages on this site, and some practice with some off cut of cable. I earthed the armour from source (house) via a fly lead to the earthing block, and at the destination point (garage) aswell by joining the earth from the T&E. (No Gas/Water in the garage).

Sorry - I didn't provide enough info. The issue is inside the junction box where it terminates in the garage. I have used a plastic enclosed box to terminate the SWA, which then runs T&E tails to the CU in the garage. Is it acceptable to just sleeve it, and not use heatshrink. It is the...

I've slightly damaged the live core of some SWA. All terminated successfully, but ended up slightly nicking the brown core. Not deep enough to penetrate through to the copper. For now I've just covered it with insulating tape. Any recommendations ?

If i disconnect the integral programmer, will the integral thermostat still work ? I have no requirement to relocate the thermostat. [/img]

Hi, I have a Ravenheat RSF 820/20 combi boiler. The boiler has an integrated timer/programmer and is situated in my attic. As you can imagine I have to go upto the loft everytime I need to manually switch on / or configure the programmer for my boiler. Does anyone know of which remote...

Hi, I have 3 old wall heaters which I haven't used for years now. They were here before we moved to the house so they are well over 20 years old. I simply want them disconnecting and removing. They still have a gas supply so I have asked a few guys to simply plug the gas pipe under the...