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Hi - Well its all down now. Will be working on the skirting during the week to get finishing touches. Mattysupra, in a previous thread to another floor layer, you expressed not to use a water based adhesive? This may be my achilles heal here. I used a water based adhesive recommended by B&Q for...

Hi guys, So far so good. I suppose i have laid about halfof the 20 sqr meters. Oh my god, ive been at it for 12 hours and only got half way. It looks amazing and have managed to walk on it for the first time. Its holding ok thus far but time will tell. I got another question that has presented...

I decided to keep away from nailing the floor down because it just feelslike a lot more work and moreprone, in my case, to problems as well as damage to the wood. Floating the floor intuitively feels the most suitable method in my case. Plus my floor has a slight deviation in its flatness so...

Thanks you guys - ill get my money back on that. I just assumed that damp proofing was required, doh! One last question..... I want to lay the new stuff as a floating floor by glueing the tongues of the new boards into their neighbouring grooves only. The manufacturing docs specify that they...

In the end B&Q did not have that underlay previously stated. Ive gone with a 2-layer approach for underlaying: 1) a damp proof 2mm underlay foam like roll substance followed by 2) the second layer of sound proofing and level adjusting tiles (green). All will be stapled down and should provide a...

I have laid a 5.5mm plywood overmy existing floorboards - Took ages to do 20sqm. Ive seen some underlay sold by B&Q today -...

Thanks for the link - im reading it now :D The flooring i have bought is floor boards ( long strips ). My existing floorboard floor seems fairly level and the room is approx 6m x 3.5m. With tiling, you cut the tiles to fit the space so is this the same for floorboards. PS - i will be removing...

Hi all, im on my last job for the god damn house, yipee, but its a corker. I ordered loads of solid oak flooring to lay in my living room. Thats all I got comming at the mo since i know i have to leave it sitting for a few days to aclimatise. My questions are: 1) Do I need to use underlay and...

I made a point of checking the socket I intend to run the SPUR from is on the ring. Im not sure what trunking to use - is there any particular truncking I should be looking at or you would recommend? The skirting board trunking sounds interesting. In a couple of weeks i will be laying wooden...

Hi all, I have a very simple problem and would like to find the best way of solving. I have just had a fireplace installed and need to run a 3-amp fused spur for it powerflue fan. Obviously this is in my living room and the distance from the nearest socket on the ring main is only about 400...

Ans: We had them in at an around Oct/Nov 2005. If I do raise units slightly, what sort of impact may this have on the joining/buttering of the worktops? Since the room is a U shape, it has three connecting worktops, obviously through two joints. Do you think it will be an easy job to...

If you dont cut, splashing out for new is the only option. I just found this out myself. Wicks and Homebase sell standard doors sizes of victorian knotty pine for about £20 quid. Imagine my amazement when i realised that non-standard standard (not a mistake) doors cost about £70 inc VAT. I had...

I skimmed over one of my walls - waited for 2 weeks and then applied PVA like the manuals say. I left that for a week and then painted using bathroom paint from Duluxe. I have to say that I have had no problems and until now would have recommended PVA'ing newly plastered walls prior to painting...

Hi all. I recently had my kitchen tiled and discovered that the kitchen worktop was not flat. There were not enough tiles to cope with this so tiling was performed on a level from the highest point of the worktop against the wall. The kitchen units are fitted to a U shape with the sink starting...

DIY - 1 step forward, 3 steps back - gutt(er)ed for you. My father is a corgi registered plumber so Ill ask his advice and post to you when he arrives on the weekend.

:oops: couldnt resist - sorry!

Am I reading this correctly - your ****ter pipe feeds into a exposed container that feeds into the sewer? Shouldnt the pipe run directly into the sewer to avoid the obvious potential Charlie and the not so chocolate factory situation? :D :D :D :D :D :?:

The loud mid-range frequency bang occured this morning only. I do usually hear the central heating heatup up at this time from my bedroom as well as a little vibration in the underfloor piping, thats usually it though. Ill get details of boiler later.

It could be something like water hammer, like when the water cycle shuts down and you get the inverse shock wave through the central heating system, but this bang had a higher pitch than the usual deep low frequency bang off water hammer. Our house is pure timber frame and everything has a...

Im at work so ill get back to you later on that - i have a bad memory but i know its fairly old. Its a gas boiler fed from a header tank in the loft.