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I've found this massive hole in my bathroom behind a missing tile (the previous owner put a whole new set of tiles over the top of it!) I'm going to replace the whole run of tiles from the missing one and off to the right, but I'm not sure how to make the wall flat again first. The hole goes...

Update: My dad came over to have a look and completely unblocked the sink in five minutes! He used a heat gun to try and get the trap to expand a little, then just filled the basin and used a hand plunger. £4,600 saved :ROFLMAO:

It's really annoying that this has happened now because I'm planning on replacing the whole bathroom setup anyway, but I'm a few months at least away from being able to do that. If it was just me living here I'd probably just slum it and use the sink in the kitchen temporarily, but I've got a...

Yeah, the upper pipe is the bath waste. Weirdly though, I've measured the basin waste pipe and the threads where it connects to the basin and both are 1&3/4" diameter :unsure:

Annoyingly not - they feed into the main downpipe separately. But even if the blockage is in the external part of the pipe, it looks like it should be fairly easy for someone to unscrew/remove that section and clean it out, rather than replacing the whole waste pipe. I'll have a crack at...

£1.2k for scaffolding, £2.4k for labour and a bit more for materials + VAT on top Re. what you you asked earlier, yeah, the bath is draining fine.

I'm on the second floor, so apparently scaffolding is needed

Cheers - I've done that

A week ago my lodger told me the bathroom sink was draining slowly. I put some caustic soda down it and rinsed with a kettle. It made a few glugs, spat out some dirt and now it's completely blocked - no drainage at all. I tried using a snake, but it seems to be a build-up of dirt rather than...

Thanks for the advice. I taped up the pipe then filled it with mortar, which seems to have worked out OK.

I've currently got a freestanding electric cooker on a 32a circuit. At some point in the future I'd like to get a built in double oven with separate induction hob, and am wondering if it'll be safe to have that on one 32a circuit, or whether I'll need to have another circuit put in for the hob...

I've got this quite big dent in my kitchen wall. It's 10" by 10" and around 2" deep at its deepest point. Does anyone have any advice on what the best way to fill it would be?

I'm about to lay a laminate floor and want to screw down the underlying floorboards before I start. When I do this at the moment I make the first couple of twists by hand until the screw is embedded in the wood, then finish with a power screwdriver - if I start with the power driver, the screw...

I've been taking some tiles off my kitchen walls and it's been a bit of a mission because they're fixed in place with a thick helping of mortar, which also needs to come off. Most of it is now gone, but in a few places there are bits which have stubbornly clung on and there are no surfaces on...

I've been taking some tiles off my kitchen wall. They were attached pretty firmly and in a few places they've taken the render off the wall when they've come loose, like this: Can anyone recommend a product I can use to patch these holes once I've finished removing the tiles?

Thanks for the advice - all sorted now!

I've switched the power to that circuit off and won't be switching it back on any time soon! I actually took the front of the switch off myself cos it was coming away from the wall. Was hoping it'd just be a case of putting a new screw in, but now I'm extremely confused? Is this type of light...

And how can I get rid of it?

Pretty much all the plaster on one of the walls in my flat has blown because of damp coming through from a dodgy downpipe outside The pipe is now fixed and the wall is dry. I'm gonna strip off the old blown plaster this afternoon. Once that's done, what would the next steps be? I'm gonna get...

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. It might be nice in the background if I've got people over during the Winter. Looks far nicer than the hole in the wall it replaced!