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Currently have vinyl flooring in the bathroom which is to be replaced with ceramic tiles. Could I ask what is involved in raising the toilet pan and cistern to allow the tiling to be laid before re-fixing the toilet? I have included a couple of pictures of the existing set up, I am unsure...

I am going to tile a bathroom floor (wooden boards). I am planning on using Hardiebacker on top of the floor boards prior to tiling. My question regards a small area of the floor which is the hearth from an old fireplace, this is only about 0.5m square and is below the level of the...

Hi, Our bathroom was converted from its previous use as a bedroom (before we bought the house) The house is approx 100 years old and has wooden floorboards on the first floor. The bathroom floor is currently vinyl but we are planning to lay ceramic tiles over cement backing board. The...

Thanks, This is part of remedying a damp problem as stated, I have no doubt that he will do a good job and the other parts of the quote he supplied seem totally reasonable - actually carrying out the Damp proofing, removing and fixing skirtings etc. I just cannot reconcile a cost of £65...

Hi, We are in the North West of England, I have just got a quote for carrying out remedial work on our living room due to damp. We engaged an independent Surveyor who confirmed our problem was due to rising damp and as I say we now have a quote to rectify this. The company who provided...

I am looking at replacing our existing bathroom floor (vinyl) with ceramic tiles. The floor consists of standard wooden floor boards - house is 100 years old. Just wondered what the thinking is regarding the best/easiest substrate to lay prior to tiling? Should I use plywood or are the...

Thanks for all the replies. We do have an outside socket connected to the kitchen ring main so I will start with that at the weekend

Hi, We have a split load consumer unit installed less than 5 years ago, about a week ago we had an instance where the RCD that controls the D/S power and U/S lights tripped (this was about 11-30 at night so not a lot of appliances operating). I reset the RCD and it tripped again within 10...

I was organising some work for a letting agent, he passed me on the details for a landlord who was on his books - said 'It would be best if you dealt with him direct', I wondered why but soon found out. He asked for a gas safety cert for the property which was empty, passed the job onto a gas...

Thanks for all the answers, have decided to do it myself.

Thanks - even so a quote of £770 for 8 square metres seems excessive to me.

Thanks, As it is only a garden wall I think I will try it myself - be good if I can add to my skill sets and save a few hundred quid at the same time

Just had three quotes for the following work :- Rake out and re-point 8sq metre garden wall (1metre high x 8 metres long) Refix a row of bricks on end along the 8 metre run of wall (re-using existing bricks) One quote worked out at about £70 per square metre and the other two at close...

Thanks for the reply, Is this membrane they are proposing now some sort of industry standard or is it (as I suspect) way over the top for a standard damp problem? As I said I will consult with the surveyor before going back to the contractor

They have agreed to iniect a new DPC free of charge, it is the plasterwork they are trying to (over) charge for

Hi, We have been in our property for about 13 years, after a year or so it was apparant that we had a problem with damp around the front ground floor bay window area. We got a couple of estimates and appointed a company to inject a DPC and carry out remedial plastering as necessary, the...