Recent content by tom2011

I'm going to start taking up the decking today if the weather is ok, so i'll try and get some photos. At the moment they are still under the decking. I took up a few planks yesterday, and had a look underneath with a torch and a bit of a feel around, but its quite dark and muddy down there at...

would this one be suitable for those concrete plinths I mentioned? http://www.hss.com/hire/p/breaker-te700-medium-duty Just doing some research earlier, and seems the suggestion to lay gravel straight onto concrete base is not a good idea due to slip hazards. Drainage wouldn't be a problem, as...

Hi, I have an outdoor area about 3x4 meters which I want to renovate. I'd like to put some decorative gravel/stones down with some interspersed paving stones as a sort of patio. Currently, there is decking in this area of the courtyard which was there when we bought the house. Originally I...

Will try and post a picture later I dont know how to remove the tap head. There is no h/c sign that I can remove, the h/c symbol is etched in to the chrome finish! There does not seem to be any obvious way to remove the tap, no screws, nothing to flip opne, etc. I did look, i;m not an idiot!

Hi, I have fitted a new mixer tap to my bath a month or so ago and recently the hot water tap has started to slow and to the point that I get a few litres of hot water into the bath and then barely a dribble. I cant access under the bath due to the bath being boxed in. I think the...

Many thanks for the advice. Can I just ask why you suggest avoiding oil based coatings, because of the young ones? Is it specifically to do with the bathroom or just oil-based paint in general? I ask because I also need to do a lot of gloss-work elsewhere around the house.

Forgot the other part of the question.... Another reason why i'm going for eggshell is that I want to paint the rest of the walls (non-cladded part) a decent colour and the bathroom-specific paints they seem to have in DIY shops are horrid. So going for an acrylic eggshell paint means I...

Hello, I am re-doing our bathroom and I now have wood panneling/cladding around the walls up to about 80cm height, and then painted wall with some small areas of exposed plaster skim to the ceiling. I want to paint the wood cladding in white, and the wall in a colour. The ceiling is...

Thanks Dynamite! That makes sense. And yes, water does spill out when I disconnect, so there probably is standing water in the waste pipe. I think my only option really is try raising the height of the toilet as you say, maybe a plinth. Hopefully it wont look too amateurish...! Not sure...

Have just had a thought.... Could it be anything to do with the way I am using the 20mm offset? The wall outlet (a grey waste tube that is cemented into the back wall, protruding about 10cm) is higher than the toilet pan spigot. So, the offset connector is going "upwards" if you see what I...

Hiya, I'm installing a new toilet and having problems with the plastic connector between the wall outlet and the toilet pan spigot. I'm using a MACFIT 20mm offset connector, from toolstation...

Hello I am remodelling the bathroom and the flooring needs to be redone. At the moment, the flooring is orginal floorboards covered with 3mm hardboard (smooth surface), then cork tiles, then vinyl tiles on the very top. I am removing the vinyl tiles, and as I do so some of the cork...

Hello I have recently put a new bath in, and redone the tiling. Following advice on this forum I butted the bath flush up to the wall first, then tiled the wall down to the top of the bath, leaving a 2-3mm gap between the rim (top edge) of the bath and the bottom edge of the bottom row of...

Set up is bath in corner of room, with two rows of tiles above (along side of bath and at tap end) I want to remove these tiles and add new ones, and also increase the height of the tiling to close to ceiling height, so that a shower head can be fixed at tap end of bath. I have a young...

last time I tried to solder plastic it was a disaster :wink: