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If you are talking about tree ferns. They are ferns that grow from the top of the 'tree'. You should start to see fern fronds unfurling from the crown of the fern, now we have warmer weather. They get their moisture from the 'trunk' and through the crown of the plant, so you shouldn't let it...

Thanks for that. How is it best to start in the middle of the tile? Hammer? Drill first? small cold chisel?

My bathroom is slowly progressing. On looking at the tiles I've alread done ( a few weeks ago!) I've found that one of the tiles must have been faulty, and a chip a size of a pea has 'blown' from the centre of one tile. They are dark tiles, so it is realy noticable. How do get the tile...

I wouldn't wory too much if they are pond fish. I have kept pond fish for years. Some fish do sometimes look bloated, when looking at them from above, and they seem to get on fine. I would be conserned, if they also started to swim on their side( swim bladded diesease), the scales started to...

I need to fit a concrete lintel above an existing bathroom window. How do I do it? The window was put in ( badly ) by builders a few years ago. They cut the window opening ( about a foot wide ) then inserted the window. There is now a crack developing in the blockwork above the window...

The other option is to have a good look round at all the units available. Get MFI to do you a design, then source units somewhere else! Wickes do kitchen units. There is a big B&Q warehouse store in Reading. If you are using flat pack, I think ease of assembly is important, as well as...

Don't touch that multi layer stuff! It didn't seem to work in our extension! I'm going to replace it with the kingspan/celotex stuff in the spring.

We had an extension built a few years back. As part of the work a new bathroom window was cut in to the outside wall of the house. A small 1ft wide window. I have been removing the tiling and coving in the bathroom ready for retiling, and I notice that there is a crack developing above the...

Re-tiling the whole bathroom! ( floor to ceiling). So I want to check I'm doing it right! I've striped the old tiles. A lot of plaster has come off the stud walls, leaving bare plasterboard. The rest of the walls are rough plaster and lots of old adhesive! So I'll chip all the lose bits of...

This thread made me laugh cos I'm the wife and I do the DIY!!!!

In the girls school I used to go to. The toilets in the PE changing rooms flushed with hot water for a week or so. It was great, cos it was the middle of the winter and the changing rooms were freezing! So at least you could warm your 'rear end' after a game of hockey!

This is the gable end wall of my house. We moved in about 8 years ago. The was a thin crack running down the wall of the upstairs bedroom. I cut back a little either side of the crack and filled. The crack has gradually reapeared. The crack obviously follows the motar joints of the blockwork...

from memory (!) the heatloss isn't a linnear relationship. I'm not famililar with 'the whole house' method' for calulating heat loss, but I would guess that somewhere in it you have a variable ( value) for outside temp in deg C and inside temp in deg C. Run the calcs a few times for each...

When ever I use a mastic gun, I just can't seem to get a neat finish to the bead of mastic/silicon or what ever I am using. I cut the nozzel at an angle. I've tried pushing the gun away from me/pulling the gun towards me as I form the bead. I've tried using masking tape either side of the...

I think if you put in log burner you now need to instal a s/s chimney liner ( I may be wrong). A reputable stove shop should be able to tell you.

Several other forums have hot debate on the effectiveness ( or not!) of multi layer/ bubble type insulation. I can only comment on my own experience of an extension built and insulated with a multi layer foil! FREEZING! 2 months later we had cavity wall insultaion injected- much warmer...

I'm shortly going to take out a 'decorative stone fire place'. It's a floor to ceiling fireplace! I'll get the wall replastered and then I want to continue the existing coving across the plastered bit. How can I match the coving? It's an egg and dart style. Is this something a builder...

I'm about to sart tiling my bathroom in the next couple of weeks. I've decided to go for floor to ceiling tiling, with a skirting and coving. I'm going for a classical bathroom style. Probably with dentil style coving and a couple of corbels (!)- a bit clasical greek style. But I spend a lot of...

Ok, so where will I find them? I assume in the shower mixer itself. Its a modern style shower mixer with a single tilting leaver for temp/on-off. There is a grub screw that will alow me to get the head off the mixer. There seems to be a small cover plug further back on the valve body, so...

I had a basic shower mixer fitted a while ago, to replace a defunked thermostatic mixer ( mira excel ). The flow rate from the new mixer is no where near as good as the old shower, although no other changes have been made to the plumbing. I have just started to wonder if mixers have 'stops'...