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Hi Everyone I'm just refreshing a kitchen and stripped it all back to find glued on lino flooring. Has taken a long while to manually scrape this stuff off and now I am left with bare concrete but there is a sheen of residual glue from the old lino. You could not scrape the glue layer off...

regarding the decorative wall tiles because they are thinner than the ceramic wall tiles to either side we need to stick them so they are flush with the ceramic ones. my question is how best to do that. the mirror adhesive stuff is like sticky rubber and i am not sure if i am supposed to use a...

Hi all, A couple of tiling questions if you don't mind? 1) We have tiled all our bathroom walls with 60x30, 10mm thick white ceramic tiles. We have left a rectangular strip free where we want to put some red decorative glass tiles in the middle. I bought some mirror adhesive as you can't...

wow. that was hard work. like keeping a pneumatic drill help up horizontally for an hour pounding at a wall. but it's done. i went with the suggestion of buying an SDS chisel bit. this worked wonders without any pilot drill holes. perhaps it would have been slightly easier with the pilot...

oh god ... ;) was planning on running copper up the chases with an elbow on the top of each one (soldered) then wrap the lot in denso. finish with foam and plaster over. i like the idea of attaching the mixer somehow at the top before foam to hold pipes in place. i think i only have...

hi guys well tomorrow is the big day where i attempt to chase concrete wall away to fit a manual concealed shower mixer. the final decision is to wrap denso around the pipes and use some foam to secure pipes. my plasterer has been kind enough to lend me a powerful rotary hammer drill...

so my electrician is working in the bathroom today, really nice guy, seems to know his stuff. so i asked him about the shower mixer. he said he knows quite a few plumbers and they all just put the copper piping in the cavity and if anything just to be sure they use denso but not often. then just...

so are you guys saying not to plaster over the cavity once the pipes are in? you guys just foam it up, cut flush and tile directly over? does that not leave a waterproofing problem around the edges of the plaster that comes to the cavity edge? i am still unclear on actual material to put over...

Hi guys, I have spent a good deal of time googling and reading forum posts on the question of how to install concealed copper pipework for a concealed shower mixer into concrete walls. The answers vary so wildly that I am none the wiser. I've seen suggestions to run the copper through...

Hi Guys I ripped the bath out and need to put the mains water back on even though a new bath has not been fitted yet. I have bought 2 15mm brass? end caps (I tried the plastic ones which were crap). They have a little olive in them and a screw top. Is this all I need? How does this end cap...

Hi, We are fitting an external thermostatic shower valve mixer and need to run hot and cold up the wall to the mixer. We have been told by 1 plumber to build a partition stud wall in front whereas 5 other plumbers all say to chisel a route through the concrete wall and lag the pipes. We...

Hi, We are in the process of completely stripping out the bathroom and renewing. I took off the bath panels today and found that under the bath is wet with quite a lot of blackening (mould). The bath is on wooden planks which themselves are on a concrete floor. Don't see any form of...

lol, well i guess it's veneered then .. it has a 2mm or so top layer of faux platic feeling wood with something like chipboard underneath.

Hi Guys, Thanks for the fast replies. Will check this product out :) Definately agree on the "adding character" point for real wood floors but not for this super-smooth faux wood laminate stuff from IKEA ;) Not only that, but I rent this house, so I don't want my deposit docked...

Hi, So I have a small problem in that I dropped the iron the other day onto the laminate flooring .. IKEA type light wood stuff and the nose of the iron put a 1cm dent into it. The impact site has the laminate surface depressed and I cannot (don't want to) raise it out for fear of making this...