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I have amended my post as the scarf version is a bit advanced, but have still kept it in at high level. I did not go into enough detail as the 'wedge' needs to be set in via a stopped edge, which avoids a feather edge. It is all very possible but maybe not DIY. The ply method or door flipping...

Please see a couple of suggested methods described in the attached .pdf, and drawings/photo cheers

terryplumb Thanks. Much appreciate your advice. Only just looking at the forum again since last weekend, and will be trying to get the toilet working today.

steve32 - thanks - just checked the screwfix washer and it is in fact a 2" one that I brought. I will hunt around for a bigger one as the seal it give seems good. However when the cistern is on the Pan using this washer the cistern ceramic is resting directly on the pan ceramic, so the washer is...

Thanks I didn't mention in my post that the washer you have suggested was the first one I brought, but decided not to use it as it appeared to be too small when placed inside the pan recess, which has an inner diameter of 3" while the washer outside diameter is only slightly larger at 3 1/4". I...

Hi I am fitting a 'new' (well, brought new some years ago, but only now fitting) close coupled WC Pan and Cistern (Manufacturer: Olympus, Model: Cayman) and am struggling to connect the two. The units came with a foam connecting washer (110mm diameter) and the WC pan has a 100mm diameter...

Is it OK to use bonding plaster to make-good brickwork ? I am having a kitchen fitted by a Wren kitchen fitter and he has removed about 8 bricks from the brickwork that is the left side of a patio door opening. The brickwork is about 2.5-3 bricks width from the outside wall. He has removed...

Hi. Thanks for reading this post. I am just about to tile my bathroom. The new shower cubicle is stud/exterior ply, and the rest of the room is plaster (one wall) and stud/ 12mm plasterboard (3 walls). I am going to use Bal WP1 to tank the shower cubicle, and the technical advisor at Bal has...

I have a standard Steel bath which I brought a long time ago from Homebase and have managed to lose the 'reference adhesive strip' that is supplied to stick on the underside of the bath to help you position the plastic support feet correctly. The bath is 1700mm x 410mm (ex feet) and I was...

I have just read this post as I am about to embark on the same task, assisted by my father. i hope the job went well for DazJwood, and I realise his post was last year, but in case someone else like me is reading this in 2011 I thought I would post what I have decided to do. I plan use two 30mm...

Thanks, I wasn't sure of the thickness as never done tiling before and my DIY Bible (Collins/Jackson & Day) did not give a thickness, so I did a quick google.

I am coming to the end of a long (since April) bathroom project and my next job is to fit the fixed shower outlet/sprayhead. It is a Triton and the (pretty hopeless) instructions say I should fit the elbow fitting flush with the finished tile surface. I am using 9mm marine ply as the backboard...

thanks. The area will be a wet area i.e it will be in the corner of the room with the shower cubicle. The whole of the exterior wall has had all the old 1930a plaster taken off back to brick and I will be tiling the whole wall, mainly for aesthetics, but I was just wondering whether the area of...

I am building shower base into a corner of a bathroom that previously had a corner bath. The shower will be contained by a 2500(h) x 1000(w) corner area of brick wall (exterior wall of house), 2500(h) x 1200w interior brick wall and lastly a 2500(h) x 1000(w) stud wall. I am planning on using...

I am just embarking on a bathroom project which will involve moving stud walling, water tank, rerouting plumbing and electrics etc and I want to start by drawing up a set of schematics/plans of the existing house layouts for plumbing, electrics, walls, etc. I can use these for other projects I...