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When I cut back joists and sistered new ends on to them I used M12 bolts with a dog tooth washer in the middle with the bolts in a w pattern. That was the advice I was given on here a few years ago. I mentioned it to my carpenter recently when he was building our extension and he said they'd...

The answer is that the cartridge is available as a spare but the handle isn't, so that leaves me needing to buy a new shower :cry: I'm tied in to this model because of the way it fixes. There are tap connectors behind the wall with adaptors screwed in that the unit then slides on to. If I want...

I've just discovered that it is a debadged Hudson Reed A3118, although I can't seem to find parts for that either...

It's this one https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/chatsworth-thermostatic-shower-bar-valve-with-diverter-rigid-riser-fixed-head

I'm decorating my new bathroom at the moment and had to move the pipework for the new shower. I put the valve on the pipes to check for leaks in my soldering and didn't do it up tight enough, about 30 minutes after I turned the water back on the bar valve shot off the wall into the opposite...

Our house has a south facing garden with big French doors. The kitchen and dining room get hot quickly all year round. The living room and small office on the other side take much longer to get up to temp. At the moment the nest is in the hall in the middle but it's not a great compromise and...

I've got a 5 year old Worcester Greenstar 28 cdi so I think that's got their proprietary connection on it rather than opentherm.

We currently have a nest that has gone crazy and I've had to turn all the smart features off to stop it trying to heat the house at 3am. We've also got a new baby and need to make sure his bedroom is warm enough in the winter months throughout the night when we'd normally have the heating off...

Recently had a dormer extension done which cost £54k. The quote was broken in to stages and the invoices issued after I'd been walked around to show that the stage had completed. Payment schedule was: £4k on construction of scaffolding. £5.5k on completion of strip out and installation of...

I reported it to Thames Water yesterday and they came and cleared the trap out within two hours. I asked the guy about the inlet and he didn't seem to know much about it. He did say that the bottom and side of the channel were filled with scale (originally he thought it was concrete) and that...

Warning, the photo is a bit horrible but does show the problem with the blocked interceptor as well.

I’m wanting to fit a towel radiator to the wall in our bathroom. The only suitable space is a plasterboard wall with and old chimney behind (dot and dab plasterboard). The chimney is tied in to two walls of the house and was taken below roof level years ago but not removed when we did our...

Going to be putting our new bath in our next bathroom shortly and had a few questions. The floor is 2.2m wide, joist centres between 350-420mm, floor is 18mm plywood and will be over boarded with a further 6mm plywood. Do I place the bath legs directly on this floor or do they need something...

We live at the bottom of a hill and all our sewerage flows directly into a manhole shared with our neighbour. This then runs about 4 metres in to a second manhole which connects to the main sewer and also houses further up the road. We have fairly frequent blockages which cause our toilet to...

The next project in my new extension is to decorate the bathroom. Currently the room is bare plaster with 18mm plywood floors. Lighting and ventilation are done. All the pipes are in the right place in the walls/floors. We want a karndean floor (or similar) which has to be laid on 6mm plywood so...

I've got a Nest thermostat which is nearly 7 years old an I believe is a version 2. We had a lot of issues with it in the early years but for the past few it's worked happily away in the background. I had my latest gas bill a few weeks back and it was much higher than expected, more similar to...

In our loft extension we have a w1.2m x d1.0m recess that we want to put doors on and make in to a cupboard. It’s currently bare plaster and 2.5m floor to ceiling. What’s the best way to put doors on and make it a cupboard, should I run battens down the sides to fix the doors to or just fix to...

I thought there might have been some as the mortar under the new lintel dried out plus the weight of the new stuff on top? I might just caulk it and paint over it and see what happens

Had a timber frame extension built on top of our single story brick ground floor. The lintel over this window was rotten timber and was cut out from the inside and replaced with a concrete lintel. This was done according to the structural engineers drawings. I've noticed a crack has appeared...

We've had a dormer done and lost our eaves storage and need to board the loft to provide some storage space for things like Christmas decorations, suitcases etc. I want to board the loft using a loft leg system (I did this for the eaves) but am a bit worried about the ceiling joists, they look...