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Hi all, So who needs DIY bodges when a pro is willing to do the following and take money for it. So for a bit of background, ever since we moved into this house the floor in the front bedroom has been horribly creaky, after taking up the old carpet there was an obvious crown in the floor...

I've got the one your looking at, had it about 18 months and use it probably 6 or 7 times a week without any issues

The disruption isn't such an issue, the whole floor is getting taken up in the room in question to fix some previous bodges the house has suffered so I'll have access to everything that needs altering. The room is a spare so the general loss of 120mm shouldn't make much of a difference

How's the contractor dry lining the wall? If he's dot and dabbing or foaming the plasterboard to the existing wall then I'd chisel out the existing cable runs now and temporarily fit both sockets into a surface mounted back box, on the day of the works you can then safely terminate the cables...

Buy a length of 40mm or 50mm solvent weld pipe and some end caps. (can't remember the diameter of a cartridge offhand) Cut the pipe into say 6 inch lengths, solvent weld an end cap onto each end. Then solvent weld each capped length vertically to each other as crudely shown below, 0000 0000...

Can you not use square ducting on top of units to get to an external wall within the kitchen?

It's not a cavity wall, it's a single skin block wall

100mm was just a nominal figure. How about 50mm celotex direct to the block wall then a 3x2 cls stud wall built in front of the celotex with the small side out in filled with 25mm celotex (this would leave a 13mm gap in the frame work), I can then build extra studs into the wall for hanging the...

Hi all. I live in a chalet bungalow, downstairs is a standard brick/block with cavity arrangement. Upstairs both bedrooms are single block work with no cavity. The bedrooms face north and south and the north facing room is a good 3 to 4 degrees colder than the south facing room, this...

If the terminals are secured from being able to touch each other inside the debox and there's no exposed wire outside the box then carry on

We're back on now

Ours is still off, fortunately mobiles are on o2 so working ok

Pictures of the shoe rack you want would help

You may be right about replacing the damaged treads, I'll know more when I start undoing some of the fixings and see what moves/doesn't move once my new blocks and brackets have arrived, I've it pencilled in for Friday if everything arrives.

It will all be done in one go, I just needed to space out each job above so it read ok instead of being a big block of text

So I got home early today and decided to have a look at the job. Decided to both cut the plasterboard out under the stairs and remove all the carpet/underlay from the top to so I can get a full picture of what's going on. From the top I've gaps between the treads and risers and some...

Any sparks can be dealt with by putting an old sheet or curtain in the bath and then use masking tape or similar in several layers around the area your cutting, the sparks loose their heat in seconds or less so it's not really a big worry, using a grinder for a 'delicate' job for your first is a...

A dremel or other brand rotary tool with a cutting disc would be my choice for that. If you remove the bath side panel how much room is there between the floor and bath base? If you can get an arm under then using some ingenuity and socket extensions you can probably get a tool up there to...

Evening all, Our 1970 staircase creaks badly and the wife's got the hump over it. I've seen YouTube videos similar to the below, They all show what can be done from above. I've no issue cutting the plasterboard out below the staircase as the whole hallway will be getting redone, so am I...

Read what I wrote again, the section with the pipe the ptfe will go round the olive but there looks like there is a second reducer section screwed into the valve body which appears to be the source of the leak, that won't have an olive and will require ptfe on the threads that screw into the...