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Hi All I have a resin roll top showering bath ready to fully fit on a ceramic tiled bathroom floor. The orginal 30s floor boards have been replaced with WBP, joists are good and I've put noggins where the bath will sit. Tiles are down with flexible adhesive and floor is solid as a rock...

Hi All I'm looking for ideas for a boundary wall/fence between our front drive and the neighbours, fence would be maybe 18 feet long. We're clear on the boundary and wall/fence would only need to be about 3ft high, more of a boundary claim than due to any security concerns. At the moment we...

Hi All Just in the process of tiling my bathroom floor and walls, floorboards have been replaced with WBP and the walls are original plaster. The majority of the plaster seems sound however I do have a few bits behind the bath that are loose and most annoyingly there is a gap at the bottom of...

Almost down, one strip to fit. Cut it by hand as was a bit worried that my viscious circular saw might have pulled the layers apart; joists gap varys by about 5-6 mm so couldn't use the timber merchants cutter. The joists are 7 inches not 6 so used 18mm wbp, found it surprisingly easy to...

Many thanks for taking the time to give this info, much appreciated. I had thought of laying the board across the joists but as you say I'd need a lot of noggins to to support the edges, hard work. Is this board easy to cut? If not I could get the timber yard to cut it. Just one thing...

Hi again Richard Ive added a dogy drawing of the bathroom if this helps.. Joists are 2x6 inch give or take a few mm and run across the room when entering the door. The floor feels solid as a rock when jumping up and down, suspect they overdid things in the 30s...

I'm pretty confident with soldering but as I'm only a diyer I am a little out of practice. Saying that my joints are usually very neat as I do go over the top, they're certainly a lot better than whoever did the central heating. I do tend to agree with the soldered joints, compression joints...

I sort of agree however I have had probs in the past with soldered joints whereby I cant get a good join to an exisiting long length of pipe even if the water has been emptied. It's as if the pipe is sinking away the heat. Unless of course my blowtorch is too weedy!

Hi All I need to tile a bathroom floor, about 2.6x2.1mtr. It's a 1930s semi with joists set at about 430mm apart and they look to be about 6x2 inch. The 2.1mtr is the size of the room along the length of the joists and the 2.6mtr is the size at of the room at 90deg to the joists if that makes...

Hope this isn't a noob question but I need to move around some 15 mm piping in the bathroom, is it safe to disturb and re-tighten the compression joints or do I need to redo any disturbed joints with new olives? Hopefully I don't need to redo the joints as cutting off the olives would mean...

Carried out a bit more research. House is a a 1930s semi, all the pipework looks to the same as the rest of the houses on the street. Lifted the manhole cover in the back garden and found a gentle flow of water, no smell at all and the gullys look remarkably clean. Ran a hose into the...

All makes sense but the hopper pipework is a smaller diameter to a normal soil pipe, presumably this is the original rainwater pipe pre the conservatory? This would make sense as its on the opposite side of the house to the soil pipework. Another worry is why the smell, is this nomal or has...

Hi All I'm just in the process of fitting a new bath and sink and would like to tidy up the waste pipework. At the moment the bath has a 40mm pipe going through the outside wall into a hopper and the sink has a 32mm pipe also going through the outside wall into the hopper. I'd like to join...