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Can you put floor leveller over existing tiles? I'm installing a bathroom in my house, and have already laid some tiles next to the shower area, however just realised that the toilet floor area next to it will be slightly higher, so i need to bring up the level of the floor where i've already...

Why would it not achieve the same thing? This wall used to have a doorway into the conservatory, but i decided to block it up as a) it seemed odd to have to go into the conservatory to get into it, and b) seemed pointless insulating the wall if there was an uninsulated doorway in it! The...

I didnt want to buy a huge sheet of PIR board as it's expensive, but i do have spare timber, kingspan (minus the plasterboard) and plasterboard. I basically want to know if using batons with insulation between will achieve the same thing as an entire sheet of PIR board.

I have a small area of wall to insulate, it's not an external wall but is next to a conservatory which is unheated. The wall is 2 bricks no cavity. I have a load of kingspan left which doesn't have plasterboard attached so I'm thinking of just batoning the wall over strips of DPM and then...

I have a final wall to insulate but getting a massive piece of insulated plasterboard won't be practical for several reasons. I see you can get smaller pieces of kingspan from Wickes however it doesn't have the plasterboard glued to it. How would you fix the bare insulation board to a timber...

They are ultralite, I tried a hand saw but it takes too long and gets very difficult once you hit the middle.

I'm blocking up a doorway using ultralite blockwork as travisperkins said they provide a nice rough key for mortar, however on the first layer I cut the block using my angle grinder with a diamond blade which creates quite a smooth surface. Will mortar still stick to this, or is there a better...

I'm blocking up an old doorway with ultralite concrete blocks using right angle wall ties to secure to existing brick wall. Are the wall ties supposed to be screwed to both the existing brick and block? It seems like drilling a hole in a freshly laid block would disturb the mortar.

What's adhesives can be used to glue to the insulation foam used in insulated plasterboard? I've insulated a small wall which has a small window in, however the insulation board has thus created a small window ledge which i need to cover with something. I was going to just stick a wooden panel...

But the stopcock wont fit directly onto that big nut, as stopcocks have a compression fitting which is incompatable with the nut. I very much doubt there will be stopcocks which will fit directly onto that nut anymore! I'm assuming that what is going to be needed is a threaded fitting adapter...

I'm happy to get a spanner, i just have no idea what ball valve will fit that fitting if it's really old. The steel pipe is around 25mm (i guess 3/4 inch), would a new valve be the perfect match?

The problem is that it does not have a gland nut where modern stopcocks do. It is leaking at the point the tap stem goes into the stopcock however this part has no nut as it's just round (see below numbered #1), the only nut nearby is a lot further back (marked #2)

So can i use the same coupler fitting then?

It could well be actually. I'd scraped away the grime and it's a silvery colour but not anywhere near as soft as another bit of scrap lead i have. If this is steel, how does one connect to it? Same fitting?

I have a leaking stopcock which I need to replace. It's attached to 25mm lead mains pipe which come up vertically. I have a lead to copper compression fitting to connect it up. I was about to remove the old fitting, but dont have a spanner big enough for the nut, so I almost took my angle...

Hello, I've sorted it out now. The main soil pipe is actually lead which I found out when I took an angle grinder to it! I went to attach a pipe connector but found that it was too wide for the 4 inch lead pipe, so had to get another fitting which was more of a compression coupler designed for...

Yes I was thinking this, rather than buy a toilet which may or may not be correct. I was thinking of cutting out the first 2 feet of pipe and replace it with pvc section connected with a coupling, then offset the Pvc section so that it gradually meets the wall. This way there are no additional...

Does it matter if it's horizontal or bottom? Presumably if it's horizontal I can just add a 90 degree pipe connector?

27cm. I'd be happy to get a different toilet as I can use this elsewhere but even new u bends aren't that distance! The attached is with the new toilet in position, as you can see the toilet would be absurdly far from the wall even with a box built behind. The soil pipe goes down the...

I have just removed my old toilet to replace with a new one. The toilet was a u bend one and connected to the cast iron soil pipe which pops up above the floorboards, then goes vertically down 6 inches under th floorboards where it bends 90 degrees and travels horizontally for 2 feet before...