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I'm plumbing in our kitchen (no ceiling or walls boarded yet), and we think it prudent to install a cold water supply to the location of the fridge, in case we go for one with a chilled water supply. For those that have fitted these in the past, where is the best place to put the...

An option, less desirable given our desire for something less fiddly to clean, but probably the last resort.

I'd still have to get out of the chase at the top. there's not a lot of guidance regarding notching wall plates for this sort of thing, but (typically) there is a joist in just the wrong place for straight-up chases.

Tile finish on hardiboard or similar. I don't have a problem with cutting chases (it'll be messy in the old brick given their toughness), but assuming vertical, getting out of the top of the chase will be hampered by the wall plate, Horizontal obviously limits the depth to approx 15mm, which...

I'm trying to figure out the best way to get hot & cold water to the right location for a shower room in an extension. The shower is up against the old part of the house, which consists of a cavity brick wall. Conveniently there's an opening through the wall nearby. Inconveniently the cavity...

What order is preferred for walls and screed (with UFH)? I'm using a wet UFH system with 75mm screed over membrane and PIR insulation (PIR is already laid). I have a stud wall (plasterboard over OSB over timber frame) that needs to go in. I can see this going 2 ways: Walls first - makes the...

I'm preparing an area for wet UFH system. The insulation is down, and I'm considering laying a 'decoupling membrane' by Laminon (which helpfully has a grid printed on it to align the pipework to) prior to pipe fitting and screeding. It's sold in 1.2m wide rolls, so will have joints - I...

yeah, I've heard the stories.. whilst it sounds like a cool experiment, I'll leave that for youtubers :)

The guidance is to buff as you apply, doing a board or two width at a time, so I feel a polisher would be too big and cumbersome for the first pass when there's untreated wood next to where I'm polishing. I'm using this site as guidance...

Hi all, We are laying an untreated engineered oak floor, and have chosen to use a hard-wax oil (by Blanchon) to finish it. The directions state it should be brush applied and then buffed in using white cotton cloth or a buffer/polisher with a beige pad.. I've borrowed a DA polisher with a 5"...

thanks for the tip chaps - it will come in useful for adjusting the fill height as the cistern isn't big enough to allow me to rotate the assembly once it's fitted..

Minor rant, but this might help someone in the future. Toilet cistern stopped filling saturday afternoon. Took a look inside, opened up the valve and the little rubber seal inside was perished and had split a little. 20minutes on Google suggests that the seals are available as spares, which...

It looks like a feature, a lot of older properties have external windowcills formed using brick or tile (mine are brick). It also looks like it's been painted in the past, it may be the other windows are also painted, but less worn/weathered. Personally I like the red, and would look to...

Getting an extension built. I've got window reveals with an exposed steel lintel under the inner block coarse, and thinking ahead to plastering, I'm worried about future fitting of blinds inside the window reveal, what they would fix to? Thus I'm contemplating lining the top of the reveal with...

Good working practice would be local isolation via a FCU, if on an oversized supply, or just a double-pole switch if on a dedicated radial, and a suitably sized breaker/RCBO in the fuseboard. Belt and braces would be to have the control box on a plug to an adjacent socket, thus there is no...

All equally useless when the road-mender stick a backhoe through your phone-line (assuming you're fortunate enough to have someone come out and fix the roads).. There's a few smart-home systems that are not internet dependant, Home Assistant being one, but even then they're not always infallable.

Not all smart ecosystems are created equal, as other have stated, many rely on an internet connection to work, and not everyone want Amazon or Google listening in to everyhting that goes on in a household. Having a central switching centre enables easier control, and also removal of control for...

This topic aligns with my own interests, so I thought I'd throw a couple of comments in.. I'm planning similar with a dedicated radial circuit (6 or 10A, not sure yet) to feed the a lighting control box in the loft, contents of which are still, but from that location I've run 20 or 25mm conduit...

yeah, this is pretty obvious too.

Hi all - quick question - is there a policy on AI users or AI generated content on this platform? I've just had a reply to an old post of mine from a new user which has summarized previous posts on the thread, yet has not added anything new. I'm wondering if this is the thin end of the wedge...