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Please could you tell me where I can obtain a DN70 (70mm) to 40mm adapter? It is for an overflow so it will not be under pressure. The only ones I can find are rubber adapters 60mm OD to 40mm ID. Thanks in anticipation

Sorry to bother you again Woody but I didn't realise there was so much to learn about screws! Screwfix sell a screw (50954) that's specifically for securing chipboard floors to joists. It's 4mm x 55mm (which fits your criteria) and has an unthreaded portion near the top of the shank to prevent...

Thanks Woody, No.8 (4mm) Quicksilver screws it is then, with a big pot of glue!

Thanks for all this good advice. I've already bought the sheets of chipboard (sorry Noseall!) and I agree that screwing them down is probably the best option. I've looked in the Screwfix catalogue and although they have an extensive range of screws, none of them mention BS1210. Please can you...

I'm building myself a house and I've reached the stage of installing the the first floor decking. The house is weather-tight and I intend to use 2400x600 sheets of 22mm thick moisture resistant T&G chipboard. Someone told me that in addition to nailing the sheets down I should also glue all the...

I'm building a 4-bed house that is going to have underfloor heating on the ground floor, radiators on the first floor and a pressurised DHW system. I would also like to use two sources of heat, a gas boiler and a wood burning stove connected to two indirect coils in an unvented cylinder but...

Hi, I've just completed a minor plumbing repair that was nothing to do with showers but involved turning off the main stopcock. Before I turned the stopcock off, the lady mentioned that the shower head attached to the Triton T80i in the main bathroom was leaking and asked me to look at it...

Hi BTG, Yes, I did fix the problem. I replaced the old crappy light switch with a good quality new one (which I think was the main problem) and just to be on the safe side I also replaced all the 50W lamps with 35W. The customer said the bathroom was too bright anyway!

Thanks for all your help guys, I think Deluks' suggestion is probably the one I'll go for.

Hi, About 4 years ago I had a detached garage built on a concrete raft. The rainwater from the roof runs into a soakaway that I built about 1.5m away from the raft. The Building Inspector says it is too close and that it should be at least 3m away but it is impractical to move it because it...

Excuse my ignorance Aqua, but what is board adhesive? You advise not to leave any in my bucket so it sounds like something that has to be mixed? I've been on a couple of websites and all I can find is PVA Building Adhesive that comes ready mixed in 2.5L tubs for about £8. I had thought of...

Thanks for all your help. I can't find anything on the internet about Evo-stik 918 tile primer but I have found something called WSE Primer/Adhesion Promotor from www.decoratingdirect.co.uk that is designed to be put on glazed ceramic tiles. Then there is the problem of which adhesive...

I've been asked to convert a downstairs bathroom into a study! This involves removing a very expensive looking 4-piece bathroom suite (dark red) and a shower cubicle complete with mixer shower. The walls are tiled from floor to ceiling and instead of taking the tiles off the walls, I wondered if...

Someone has asked me to replace the domestic hot water header tank in their loft because it looks like it is made of asbestos (surely its not) and it's started to de-laminate. The house was built in 1948 and I think the tank is original. The outlet pipe is underneath on the bottom of the tank...

Sorry, I forgot to thank everyone for all their help. I found that one of the ways on the CU actually has a re-wirable fuse holder and I was going to move it to the spare way at the end of the CU to feed the new shower RCD/MCB unit and buy a replacement 30A cartridge fuse holder for the...