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I have just finished converting front garden (1/2 lawn 1/2 concrete tarmac) to a gravelled area and am beginning to think I have done the wrong thing As I say half of the area was concrete, which I removed, then all I did was put down a membraine follwed by 3inches of 20mm gravel. The...

Hi, recently drained system to fit new bathroom suite, and not to my surprise, which seemed fine for 24 hrs, then no water was coming from the cold tap or filling the cistern. On subsequent research I pressumed I had an air lock and hence attached hose from mains to bath tap and forced water up...

Many thanks for your replies. I built a small stud wall, which seemed to be the cheapest option, I got one of those ? mark bends just to gain a bit more space which I have put directly into clay pipe. I have sealed it with silicone, is this ok?

Yes toilet is ground floor and soil through floor, thanks

Terribly sorry, but didn't realise that 'bold' was a no no, you will see that I have only used this a couple of times, and in fact this is the only forum I have ever used. Why is there an option for 'bold' then, directly under the subject line. Don't think that that was particularly nice or...

Hi, I have just bought a new toilet bowl (close coupled) and intend on ripping out old and installing new with no experience of this. On inspection, the base of the new toilet bowl will cover the existing waste hole. Have I made a huge booboo on choice of bowl, or is there a workaround for...

Hello, pulling my hair out here. I have one cold radiator upstairs, the pipes leading to it are stone cold and the adjoining rooms radiators are working well. I have tried turning all radiators in the house of execpt the cold one, turning on the pump to its highest, but this did not work. Any...

The wall is solid internal breeze block? (big grey blocks?) And on top of that is like a solid cement (one inch) as opposed to plasterboard, sorry but don't know jargon, Thanks

Can anyone suggest what type of screws, rawlplugs and drill bit size to use for securing kitchen wall cabinets please I have Ikea cabinets that come with terrible instructions. Basically, I have the corner brackets that fit inside of the unit with the big hole for drilling through to wall...

thanks very much for the info

Hello, I am thinking about removing a freestanding oven and replacing with built in oven and seperate hob. The thing is, the freestanding was totally served by one gas connection. Will I require a seperate supply to feed hob and oven, or is there some sort of simple 'double' connector to...

I think it is less than 3kw (staff not helpful) it is just a single oven

Thanks for the reply. Please bare with me as I have not bought oven yet as I am looking at my options. I will have a look at the oven I am thinking of buying tonight and post rating. The hob (gas) and oven will be built in and the cooker switch is 30amp at the mains. Thanks for now

Hi, can any one help! Buying a new oven (electric to replace gas) and at the moment I have a 'cooker switch' available, however, this switch has been wired up to feed power to my garage. My question is, can the oven and the garage be hooked up at the same point? many thanks in advance