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Lets hope the sunshine stays out :- cheers again.

Good timing! I just got back from digging further around the bottom joint as the mud still looked to wet for my liking. So there is yet another leak where the broken pipe joins right underneath the join. I've got no choice but to remove that section also. We're going to have to remove half the...

As you mentioned, so I did a little further digging into this and I found the issue. It appeared to be a hairline crack at first and I could clearly see some water leaking when the loo was flushed. It's likely I damaged it further as i was trying to get to it from the top (its not very strong...

Hi, hope I posted in the correct forum. Recently we decided to decorate our rooms and while doing so we also got the electric sockets put into the walls. When this was done the debris appeared to have felt damp and rich in colour compared to the other side of the house. Didn't think much of it...

Wow!! Nice one guys - just seen a youtube video on the EPDM stuff. It seems so simple and by far will be the best approach. Do the DIY'ers stock this stuff guess I'll give it a google search. Thanks again :D(y)

Hi All, I have a 3x3 metre felted roof with a marginal downward slope. Fortunately, the old roof lasted about 15 years, but the roof had been shot for a while and is in need of some TLC as rainwater has been leaking inside. When stripping the felt, which came off very easily, the boards on top...

Thanks guys. I have loads of tiles leftover so no issue there. It was recently tiled by a tiler a couple of weeks back. It's going to require a lot of cool headed patience as those boxes were installed in cement when the house was rendered. As for the question how were they cabled up. I...

Okay guys thanks for the responses. I'll try out the shave a few mms off each side to see what happens... what's the best tool to use to achieve this? if anything I've kind of accepted a worst case scenario 'to break it up' :( so annoying as the kitchen is 95% ready.

It's kind of my fault as the initial bit of works was completed over 6 months back and was paid. Even if I were to go back I don't have any quotes as such. Unfortunately I ran out of money so everything stalled. Now that I'm back on track it's one problem after another.

Hello all, I think the pictures speaks for themselves. Bit stuck as to what can be done here... These are isolators for various appliances. It's a new kitchen and its now obvious that the builder put the gangs to close to each other. Any ideas on how to rectify with minimal demolition.

Images of the door frames. Only one is solid brickwork. The others are breeze block.

Hi, The kitchen is being refurbished (plumber is fitting a new boiler) and the plumber doesn’t want to really touch the stopcock on lead pipe, but I’m insisting it is. He said to get the parts and he’ll do it. But I went into the plumbing merchant and they said they don’t do the Stop cocks for...

Hi, Could someone help me with the following please. I have 4 doors that need full/frame/lining/locks/hanging of door etc. the house is being renovated and the old/frames doors were removed as part of the process. A carpenter came round and stated that it would be better to widen the frames by...

Anyone got any pictures as I'm at a loss on this one. This has thrown a spanner in the works I think. Our pipes all go up the kitchen wall including the gas pipe into the ceiling that's how it is in this house. Any small boilers out there I really want all pipe work connections etc in the...

to much money, time and sweat went into organising the down lights. The cables are all dangling. No turning back at this juncture i'm afraid. We'll see how it pans out.... at worst i'll have to buy multiple up lights or lamps! I think i'm pretty gutsy though :D

Hi, we are having a completely new kitchen fitted and we wanted all the pipes hidden in the walls. We want the boiler fitted near the window in a standard kitchen cabinet so it matches and is uniform. Our gas feed comes out of the back wall in the rear of the property and is fed into the 1st...

too late as the holes have already been drilled! I must admit i did think that after the fact. But we are where we are now. Just to ensure before the plasterer comes round for a 4.4m*3.2m room we installed 6 lights? - Is this going to be enough. Say we go for a dimmable maximum output of 5w...

Hi, got the builders in and we are going to get down lights in our rooms. I've seen the twist + lock and the spring clip version that holds the bulb on the web. Not seen physically. But I'm thinking the spring click will be more trouble than its worth if the bulbs fail. But on the other hand...

Many thanks for both your comments ill look into it further. I'm not to keen on breaking up the step etc although it would look better if it was one piece but I think I could live with it...

Thanks very much. I think we'll replace the lot while doing so. We'll hire the drill from HSS to bore a nice new hole, I'm thinking of doing it with a mate. One question I have and that is if we do break the cast iron pipe do we need to dig right down to the base (where the step is) or can we...