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Get yourself some 5mm acrylic and slap it on, beats the c**p out of tiles (in terms of look feel price and function), on a bathroom wall. b/

Bought one of these very cheap of ebay for a bathroom sink but am now thinking that it must be part of a faulty batch hence the price, -it foams maybe once every 8 or so times. Is there an air inlet hole that i should be checking for somewhere? b.

I've got a normal shower powered directly by a gas combi in the main bathroom, all well and good, but in a second mini bathroom/wc I'd like to add an electric shower in case the boiler plays up again (on sparate occasions buggered diverter valve, thermistor, diaphgram) However, I'd really...

Anyone aware of a way to treat wood to stop it absorbing moisture? I'm building a cupboard for drying clothes in and dont want my 4x2 ripping the house apart ( fixed to joist below and reinforced concrete above ). I've left an expansion gap to be safe, but i really cant trust modern...

you cant just seal the floor, you'll need to go a few inches up the walls depending on the level of flooding expected. (jumping into a full bath sort of thing). get a bal BP1 kit for about 60 quid, and consider all your joins between floor and wall. b.

backtrack? It goes without saying, Fastflex down on wooden floors, with optional overboarding depending on floor. Punter's posterior orifice would by rights be flapping all over the place when 400kg of piano gets wheeled in through the middle of the kitchen, along with 200kg of removal...

Then it's obvious that you should be working in construction, and not advising on more demanding jobs. Assume 12mm ply at 11 quid a sqm (wickes price), and say you get 2.5 sqm out of the fastflex 2 part kit - option 1) 27 quid on ply, plus 4-5 quid /sqm for adhesive = somewhere under 40...

I couldnt agree more, golfballs are a fantastic example of how the accepted wisdom of the day was usurped by accident observation and experimentation. [development of the pitted surface] however i fear your dogmatic approach to tiling may needlessly trip this guy up when he walks into his...

the thickness of the ply should be proprtional to the integrity of the subfloor, which is where a bit of common sense and a laser comes in. you wont need any plywood at all on some very well laid and supported wooden floors. bert.

get one of them spirit levels with a laser pointer, place it on the floor at vaious points [propped up both ends with coins] and invite some riverdancers round for a jig. If you cant see more than half a cm deflection in the point from 5 metres away, i'd go with 3mm. b/

a , small wetroom, door opens into raised floor (5 inches high), floor cut away (25mm ply, loads of noggins, no deflection when stepping around it) to match the sweep of the door, laying large format porcelain tiles. bit concerned about the eventual wear&tear on the edge where it meets the...

assuming you have access to a garden or a large spare room to work in, access to a van, a few spare weeks and about a grand and a half to spend on tools and materials read on... carefully prize out your boards and skirting, remove nails from the wood and joists, hire a bench router and if the...

can anyone reccomend a way of staining reclaimed pine to give a creamy off white colour whilst keeping all the grains visible. I'll be adding clear polyurethane afterwards. thanks b/

thanks, john, but i was thinking along the lines of recycling whats already on site and not spending a fortune on mineral wool. on the one side, all the pb is screwed in so it's an easy matter of unscrewing the boards to stuff whatever i can stuff in. has anyone mixed expanding foam...

before platering over plaster boards, I'd like to fill the gap inside the wall (between kitcken and livingroom) to aid with sound insulation and generally make the walls a bit more solid for tiling. As it's made with 2x3 studs theres a whole 3 inches of gap, -can I fill it with a mixture of...

Re: point 9, as far as i can remember, keep all other cables 15cm away from mains cables. but if they have to cross, cross at 90deg, pref through an earthed steel tube. I've done a similar job on a house and used 200m of cat 6 and speaker cable. (you can run hdmi signals over cat6 so just...

sorry aint got access to it for pics for a while, proceduraly it can be treated as if you were installing 5mm plywood panels but i'll focus on 2 problem areas - with ply you would i guess use screws, but with acrylic that would ruin the look, so to initially to support the weight it would...

I decked out the entire wet side (sink wc and bathtub) of a bathroom in 5mm opal acrylic with a diagonal yellow break. Looks sharp and liveley 6 months on. no grimey grout neither. The shower fittings /wc /sink etc do most of the work 'pulling' the sheets to the wall, The edges/joins are held...

thanks, I usually notch through for 22mm pipe and cable etc without any concern, but bath waste pipe is new territory :) the joists are only 2.5 x8 or thereabouts. like the idea of steel plate -is there anything in standards /regs that dictates the width of steel plate? also both sides...

I need to run a 40mm pipe through a couple of joists, and am a bit worried about that. Is sistering both sides a with 2ft length of equivalent reclaimed joist using 4 coaching bolts acceptable in this situation? Or is another way at all costs to be found to re-route the pipe? thanks/b.