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I would have thought a timber gravel board should slot inbetween the posts just like a concrete board does, provided that you have intermediate posts ('I' in cross-section) ? Fence panels tend to rest on top of the boards, although there's no reason why you couldn't secure them to a wooden...

When you say 'overhead shower', does it have to come from the bath taps ? I had an electric shower at the opposite (sloping) end of the bath at my previous house, because the tap end of my bath was below a window. The shower was fed from a cold mains supply in the loft.

Thanks for your help guys - you were spot on ! I removed the mechanism and the rubber washer had quite a few blisters on it, so I popped them carefully with a needle (they were full of water) and refitted the washer the other way up. There was no sign of any limescale build-up underneath...

Hi, I've got a problem with a dual-flush toilet - water in the cistern has started to run into the toilet bowl slowly and constantly. Sometimes a 'small flush' stops it and sometimes it doesn't. The cistern isn't over-filling, so it's not water running down the overflow that's...

Go for a 1' gravel board and 6' fence panel - you can always sink the gravel board into the ground slightly to get the fence to the 2m height it sounds like you wouldn't need planning permission for (according to that link, provided it doesn't boarder a public highway) The only issue you're...

I have an old shed in my garden that sits directly on a concrete slab base and the rain water that gets onto the base has soaked into the wooden batons and the rot has spread into the floor. When I replace the shed, I'll be raising it up onto bricks (probably mortared in place at strategic...

Were any of the paints high in VOCs (volatile organic compounds) ? Those are the ones that are more harmful and often smell for quite a while after painting. Emulsion shouldn't be, so it's probably the melamine paint that still smells after that time. I really can't see what you can do, apart...

The shed the previous owners of my house left behind also rests on 2x2" wooden battons on a concrete slab base, very similar to yours. I'm not sure how old the shed is, but the battons are almost completely rotten due to the water that gets onto the slabs soaking into them over time and this...

I've taken a few trees and tree stumps out of my garden by digging them out. nick is right - it is hard work, but can be very rewarding once you get them out ! I also used a mattock, like this : http://www.dimensionsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Mattock-Sizes.jpg The sharp edge can...

It might look a bit messy, but all those bends are required to ensure that the trap works properly - it should retain water at the bottom, which should (in theory) prevent smells from coming back out of the plug-hole. This doesn't always work though - I had a similar issue with a similar...

There are loads of threads on this forum which state that 10mm cable is normally sufficient for a 10.8kW electric shower - I only know this because I've searched for this information myself in the past, when trying to find whether the shower I inherited with my current house was installed...

The exisiting position looks the best and most ergonomic position to me from your plans, as well as being the neatest (no boxed soil pipe) Why does she want to move it ? Have you sussed how far your face will be from the opposite wall when you're sat on the toilet in the new position ?!

When I was selling my old house back in 2006, there was a house down the road on the market and they'd taken the bath out of the one-and-only bathroom and replaced it with a shower cubicle. I moved out in September of that year and the other house is still on the market, 4 years later ! There...

MC - I used to live in a house where the previous owners had plumbed a washing machine into an outbuilding and it was nothing but hassle in the winter. The outbuilding was made of concrete panels and was 1m from the house. Even though the pipes were insulated, they would freeze regularly...

Jobs like this are all about confidence and experience - it can often be daunting to tackle a job with house electrics if you've not done anything similar before. You're going about it the right way though - I always read up on any DIY job thoroughly beforehand to ensure that I'm able to tackle...

Here's something to think about - do you really need a separate WC ? I'd be tempted to turn the two rooms into a modern family bathroom, which would give you more space to play with, avoid the need to have two sinks and give you a much simpler layout.

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It will be hard to do that without a lot of hassle I would have thought. In my house a channel has been created to take an internal length of soil pipe by running a beam parallel to the wall and joining all the floor joists to that - something that's easy to do when a house is being built, but...

If the hole is the correct diameter for the raw plug and the raw plug is flush with the surface of the tile, then there is a risk of the tile cracking when the screw is screwed down as the plug may expand slightly. This is certainly the case for tiles with a porcelain/ceramic (ie. shiny) surface...