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I bought a new Cannon dual fule cooker a few weeks ago - electric double oven and four gas rings on the top. Great cooker, except that the front left gas ring keeps going out when set on a low flame. It makes a sort of 'popping' sound and then goes out. No problem when it's on a high flame...

Thanks to Lancenotalot. Sorry to be an eeejiot but do you screw through into joists, or just into the chipboard itself?

Thanks to all who have contributed. Maybe I should use Tile Backerboard (6mm) from Topps Tiles and lay (with adhesive) over the chipboard. I really need to keep the 'height' of the final floor level as low as possible. The existing chipboard isn't bad - there's no movement/flexing. Is this...

I want to tile the floor of a bathroom. The floor is chipboard, with very slightly raised joints where water has swollen the joint edges. I do not want to lay thick plywood onto the boards (because of problems with levels) but would like to put down 6mm ply. Two questions please....... 1)...

That's great gcol, thanks a million. I will post some photos when done, but I've one or two bits to sort out before doing the floor so don't hold your breath!! Once again, thanks for going to so much trouble to help out.

I'm about to tile our bathroom - not large, about 3m x 2m. My wife has decided that she wants the tiles to be laid diagonally!! Are there any tips on how to accurately measure the 'edge' triangular tiles that will need to be cut? I've checked the main forum and can't see that this subject...

Thanks. I will be having an over bath shower, and wonder if the extra support beneath the bath might be useful when I'm standing in it, to prevent any creaking or movement.

I will soon be fitting a new acrylic bath. My sister recently had a similar bath fitted by a plumber, and he used expanding foam beneath the bath to add extra support. He built a 'frame' beneath the bath and then 'filled it' with expanding foam. The bath certainly seems to be far more solid...

I am about to renew the kitchen, which involves blocking up doorways and opening up new ones, and so the present power sockets will all need to be moved. I am having a built under single electric oven (which comes with fitted plug), and a gas hob above, with mains ignition. I am also fitting...

sounds good! I've seen this stuff, but it sort of looks a bit flimsy to me. Would it dent if accidentally knocked with the shower head or similar, and could I drill and screw such things as shower spray rail, bathscreen without it bending and splitting??

Does anyone know if it is possible to buy melamine sheeting, which can be cut and glued onto timber? Can you buy different colours?? I've searched everywhere but without any luck. Thanks.

Let's suppose that I haven't taken the plasterboard away..........why can't I glue the panels to the plasterboard?? :?

Ok - thanks - but why can't I simply glue straight onto the plasterboard?

Depends on the type/quality of tiles you’ve got, but having just completed a refurb of our bathroom, I used a combination of an old screwdriver and an old wallpaper scraper with a hammer. Once you’ve got the first tile off (sharp tap with a hammer should crack it enough to get a screwdriver...

That’s a good idea – thanks - hadn't thought of it. But what would be the potential problems if the panels were simply glued to the walls?

One wall is solid – the other two are stud walls!! Why do these panels need airspace behind them when ordinary tiles can go straight onto the wall? What potential damage/problems could I expect if I put them directly onto the wall using adhesive?

Thanks. The problem I would have in using battens is that the bath fits into three walls – both ends and the back edge, and the walls are the exact dimensions of the bath. If I battened the wall, the thickness of the hydropanels and the battens together would hang over the inside rim of the...

I'm renovating a bathroom and am considering using hydropanels instead of ceramic tiles around the bath area, above which is a power shower. Can I use ordinary tile adhesive, or does it have to be the really expensive special stuff they sell in 300ml cartridges? I'd have to use dozens of them...

Many thanks for your reply. If I connect the earth wires together at each light, by twisting the wires together, does it actually ‘do’ anything, because it wouldn’t connect to anything at the final light? Is what you kindly described called wiring in series? And am I wrong in thinking that if...