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Hi I am building a WC in the garage. The existing concrete floor has DPM. I need to build the floor up some 175mm to make level with door into house. The guy helping me is suggesting timber joists placed on existing floor with polystyrene in between the joists. This sounds fine to me...

Hi I have an integral garage and wish to install some electrics - 2 lights and two sockets. I am thinking of installing a garage CU run from the main CU in the house. Exactly how do you connect the garage CU to the main CU?

This is my 3rd attempt to get an answer to this question. I'll try and explain it claerly and fully. I wish to use a piece of angle, equal or unequal, or an angle lintel. I dont wish to use anything other than an angle. I wish to support 3 courses of single skin brick across an 8 feet...

I've asked this before, but never got an answer, so here goes again........ I require to support 3 courses of single skin brickwork to go over a garage door opening. There is nothing to support other than the 3 courses of bricks. The width of the garage opening is 8 feet. Can you...

Hi I need to build / lay 3 courses of bricks over my garage door. The job is to be cosmetic and the bricks will support no loading above. I am thinking of laying the bricks on some angle iron which will be bolted to existing walls at each end. The span is about 8 feet. Do I tie the...

Hi Im moving the front door of the porch and moving the garage door forward to create more room in the garage. I intend to stud wall the old front door opening from the porch into the garage to block the entrance off. What will I need to do to please the fire regs? I was thinking of 2...

HI I see ALDI have WCs / bogs in store at an amazing price. Has anyone got any feedback on this item.......good bad etc?

Hi Need to replace float valve in tank. Will one for a WC do? If not exactly what do I need? Also the tank in circular and has no insulation or lid. Can u buy lids and jackets?

Hi does anyone know if you can simply staple foiltech to the underside of floor joists to insulate a groud floor T&G wood floor?

Hi Had this boiler fitted last year. Not the combie but a system boiler attached to the conventional CH and HW system. YOu can now tell I am a novice! - Great through winter. Now I want hot water and NO CH. My understanding is that I could turn off the CH and have HW only, so when I turn...

Hi Due to a cock up I am left with a rather large gap between my shower tray and my first tile. Dont ask how or why, I just have!! The gap is approx 12-15mm; too big to grout I think and too small to fit a cut tile - I think? Is there a waterproof filler, white in colour that I could...

Bloody Hell! Just finsihed installing a new close coupled bog - leaks! It looks like its leaking from the main connection between pan and cistern and possibly via joining bolts too. Also, and this is the pain, between the outlet and the soil pipe. As slightly different bog I invested in...

I have aquired an easy plumb tray 760 x 900. Its on 5 legs and is proving difficult to get level in all directions. Anyway, no instructions with the tray, but it has a curved side panel to allow access to plumbing. So, how does it fit and stay put? Obviously you cant allow the tray to weigh on...

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I'm thick! I'm fitting new basin taps in the bathroom and thinking of using a flexible push fit tap connector to link the taps to the 15mm hot & cold supply pipes. Screwfix appear to do a range, but which fits the basin taps? Surely all basin taps are the same thread?

Hi My local plummers merchant gave the Mrs. out shopping for me a 15 to 8mm reducing kit for the 15mm trv, as no 8mm trvs available. Of course he did not explain how it fits and I am afraid it aint obvious to me. I have two brass turned parts and long one and a very short one. I have an...

So I take it the timer is OK to use? Is there a max W for the element I should use? Also, how do I know if the bonding strips are actually all connected and doing the job they should? Is there some kind of test? B

HI, I am intending to install a wet towel rad with an electric heating elemnt for summer use. I know that the element needs connecting through a fused spur. I want to connect the element also to a timer so that I can control when its on. My local electrical suppiler sold me a timer and the...

Why do most / all shaver sockets have both 230 and 110 output? What use is the 110V :?: