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Thanks for the info, I will check the product out. Steve

Go for the joists unless you want to put ceramic tiles down in the future on this floor. As the couple of builder have said, the joist method means you have access under the floor to route cables and pipes. If you lay a concrete floor, once this is down you are stuffed if you want to run...

I have a parquet floor in my hallway which now has quite a few gaps between some of the blocks. These gaps did have some sort of filler material in them that I guess was sanded down then the whole floor would have been varnished. I would like to know the best way to repair these gaps? Steve

Regarding the "drain invert level" you referred to. Is this:- (a) The lowest level of the outgoing pipe I can see when I look into the manhole in my alleyway at the side of my house? This manhole is about a foot from the side of the building and the horizontal soil pipe feeds into this...

So it looks like the whole installation is incorrect, that's just great!!!! Not sure what you mean by "drain invert level" can you explain? Fortunately I want to rip out and re-fit the existing bathroom so when I come to do this I can try to put the botched up work right. I think it should...

Oh forget about the RCD issue. This might make things a bit more painful as all of the current lighting is on the non-RCCB side of my consumer unit. I assume one option would be to add a new separate lighting circuit for the bathroom only from one of the RCCB protected spare ways on my consumer...

I am not sure, however, my best guess is that this was all done in one hit as the bungalow was renovated in the 80's long before I purchased it. At this time the one bathroom that existed was moved to a new location in the building (where it is now). Given that there is still only this one...

Thanks for your comments. When I get around to doing this work (after the wife's subtle hints start to become rather less subtle - you know the score!) I had intended to take the power feed for the light above the basin from either (a) The bathroom main lighting ciruit in the cieling above...

Not sure what you mean by "low soil pipe" and "sub stack". I will try to explain what the soil pipe installation is like and you can hopefully tell me what I have..... Inside my 1930's bungalow, we have a soil pipe running under the floor (buried in pea shingle) just off horizonal (regulation...

What are the regs relating to fitting of a 240V light over the basin in a bathroom. Thanks

Where should plastic waste pipes (from say shower or basins etc) be connected to the soil pipe. Should I feed into the top of the soil pipe or into the side? For example, if I have a soil pipe running horizontally (with the slight fall that is needed) I could run my shower waste pipe (with fall)...

Well I must congratulate you on your extremely asmusing suggestion that I get someone else to do the work. Maybe you might want to think about what you have just suggested given that you are commenting on a DIY fourm! Hopefully its safe to assume that at least some of the work in any aspect...

The toilet WILL be connected directly to the 110mm soil pipe as you have suggested (using standard fittings). One other thought regarding cross contamination from toilet waste into other wastes. I wondered if it would be a good idea to feed the 40mm wastes into the TOP of the 110mm soil pipe...

Thanks for the advice and also no offence taken to you suggestion of getting a book (good idea). Now I think I follow what your saying regarding too much gradient which I suppose could give rise to a sufficient vacuum effect so I will keep those gradients nice and shallow. Regarding the...

I would like to move my toilet, bath, basin to new locations in my bathroom. The current pipework does not look like it has been designed or fitted very well and I don't wish to follow this poor level of work. To this end could anyone please advise me as to the following:- 1. Shared/Single...

Ok first the question is probably a bit too general so I will try to narrow things down...... 1. I intend fitting a thermostatic mixer when I install a shower in the next few weeks. I have decided to use a thermostatic mixer as it is very likely that there will be feeds to basin and bath from...

My shower tray has a 90mm diameter hole which seems to be non-standard as I can not find a waste to fit this. Can anyone suggest where I might get something to fit? Ideally this would do the complete job of fitting into the hole in the shower tray plus has a trap of some type incorporated...

I have a parquet floor that needs sanding. I have tried Floorsanderhire but I am ouside their area or work. Can anyone suggest a good floor sanding company that will work in the Portsmouth UK area ?

I have just laid a reclaimed parquet floor (Teak blocks approx 1 inch thick, 9 x 3 inch size). Floor looks reasonable but before I sand it I have a couple of questions:- 1. There is a bit of variation in the height of the blocks so its going to need quite a bit of sanding. Maximum difference...

Thanks Nige, Whats the cost like on the stuff then ?