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    Urgent tile help please?!

    Plasterboard is more stable than wood, and is a better surface to tile too, however if in wet areas it must be tanked, tile backerboard is inherently better than wood and plasterboard and offers the ideal backing for wet areas but is total overkill on non-wet bathroom walls. The 6mm variety can...
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    Urgent tile help please?!

    Ply is OK on the floor, now don't get me wrong i am no expert, but i would say that 12mm ply on the wall is a definite no no, i cannot see that it will support the tiles correctly, and like i say wood moves there is too much chance of it failing due too movement, either plasterboard (tanked in...
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    Roll top bath

    Waste under the floor where possible, and yes connecting the pipes will not be so easy that way, but it will look better, did you get any instructions with the bath, or have you got some pictures you could put up?
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    Urgent tile help please?!

    Now you are in trouble, you should never use plywood for walls, it's wood, it will move, it should be plasterboard unskimmed, MR plasterboard unskimmed or tile backer board at least 12mm thick, if in a wet area plasterboard should be tanked. I would suggest you halt works now, and either get...
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    Draught proofing my house

    Don't get too excited blocking everything up, what are the walls constructed of, is there any cavity insulation? If you seal your house up like a drum and it cannot breathe you will have issues with condensations, and possibly mold. Your new windows should have trickle vents fitted, and need...
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    Roll top bath

    Thats the way i would do it yes you can, Google it or go to your local plumbers merchants Just like you said me thinks :D
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    Urgent tile help please?!

    Are you saying the walls are Ply? or have i misread
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    Gap at bottom of UPVc door

    I expect it wants adjusting, two possible reasons, i the cams are not pulling the door into the seal, or the door is adjusted wrong in the frame, in which case the cams won't engage where they are supposed to. Some pictures of the door and the mechanism would help
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    bang from oven and now dead

    Either steam has got into the electrics causing a short, or the element has blown, leave it overnight with the door open see if it drys out, if not, and you don't know what your looking for get someone in, lectric and water don't mix, and lectric and people who don't know what they are doing mix...
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    Bathroom Flooring

    I would go with WBP ply if it were me, all over, chipboard is crap
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    Bathroom Flooring

    Rather depends on what you intend to put over the floor afterwards, Lino, Tiles, nothing at all?
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    Sealed frame befrore backerboarding?

    Nope, but make sure you have access panels so you can get to anything you need to in the future without ripping the whole lot out.
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    Questions about tiling a floor.

    You need to know the size of each joist, the width and height, and what spacing there is between them, and the thickness of the chipboard, sorry but the advice you have been given is wrong, if you proceed with the advice from the tile shop the floor may fail due to excessive deflection, British...
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    More Banging/Noisy Radiators Gas Central Heating

    Is it expansion and contraction, or is it due to water flow? I am not skilled or qualified and i don't know the boiler but the pump should have more than one speed setting, try turning it down and see if it helps, if it does your pipes have not been clipped and secured, if it does not then it is...
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    Questions about tiling a floor.

    I suggest you do a search and look at the wiki and sticky at the top of this page, been covered loads of times, but the upshot is chipboard is NOT a suitable substrate for tile, 6 mm ply is nowhere near thick enough, and you will need to know the size/pitch and span of the joists under the...
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    Advice on buying a guitar....

    Been playing since i was 6, learned at school, on a nylon strung 3/4 size acoustic, progressed to steel strung at about 10 and electric at 12 or 13. £50 quid is not a lot and in reality it will still be rubbish, whilst Yamaha are one of the better cheap guitars and i am sure it will be better...
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    Sand-blasting service

    Don't know what style you are looking for but i just googled and went straight to this site, no where near £1200.00 http://www.aquabliss.co.uk/shop/category/212/frosted/etched/
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