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thanks dan, funny you should say that but yes unfortunately the house is just over 100 years old and yes it has had mains pressure :cry: but i'll give it a go and hope for the best and call a pro if i struggle lol thanks again :)

hi thanks for the responses. here's a photo of the pipe that i want to shorten and jopin to copper. so ideally i want to connect to the lower join with a copper pipe. i would like to have a go myself i'm fairly competent, i've just fitted a new bathroom at my own place, so should be ok...

hi i'm fitting a new toilet for my mum and currently the cold water feed is galvanised steel pipe that's half in the wall and half out. i'm going to tile the walls too so this needs to go. i've found a screw connector where 2 bits of the pipe screw together and this is where i would like to...

Thanks for the reply. I thought the ones in the bathroom were the same as in the kitchen, but having checked they are bathroom ones with a sealed glass lens. As far as the quality of the eBay ones, a friend bought these exact ones from the same supplier and says they are very good, and only...

hi i've just ordered some led mr16 low voltage spotlights on ebay for my kitchen like this . from the advert it says that the brighter ones don't have a glass lens (i assume so they don/t get too hot) my convern is are lights like this ok in the bathroom with no lens, bearing in mind they're...

understood, thanks skimmers

ok thanks steve much appreciated :)

can't get any bigger than 8'x4' boards locally. can i just check do all tapered edge boards only have the tapered edge up the long sides only?

i don;t want to skim as i'm a diyer and i'm doing this for my mum so low budget. i can handle the jointing but not plastering. so if you can use scrim on the square edges of the board when you've put easifill on top does it not sit proud of the rest of the ceiling?

thanks john

I had a look at tapered edge plasterboard today in wickes and I notice that the tapered edge was only up the long sides not the short sides. the ceiling is longer than 2.4m so that means I will need to butt up against a square edge is that normal? Can you do drywall jointing like that?

Thanks for the tip

OK understood thanks for the help

Hi I'm going to overboard my mums kitchen ceiling that has just had polystyrene tiles removed from it and its a bit of a mess. I was going to use tapered edge plasterboard and the fibreglass self adhesive tape. From what I've read I should apply some easifill and then bed the tape into it...

would there be any disadvantages?

hi i've got a pumped central heating/gravity hot water system. if i was attempting to convert it to a fully pumped S plan system can i use the 32mm flow and 28mm return of the gravity system for my pumped hot water or should i take this all out and replace it with 22mm? any advice appreciated

no i know what a combi is i was replying to "Run it a few years then pull the lot out and fit a combi." as far as £1700, if i could get a new one fitted for that i would have. but my quotes range from £3000 to £4500. they're all saying that because it needs to be converted to fully pumped...

that's another good opotion thanks mike

would these be the sort of air vent i would need or some sort of automatic vent? http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Heating/Central+Heating/Air+Vent+Caps+Capillary+15mm/d230/sd2708/p45763

thanks for the reply, well it isn't very much further so waste isn't something i'm worried about. as far as air in the pipes would an air vent prevent this? and what sort of air vent should i be looking for?