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I have been doing my own household electrics whenever it's needed for years and recently rewired our Kitchen ring with new wire all the way back to the fuse box. I was appalled to find that previous bodges to our house had spurs coming off of spurs, living room sockets on the kitchen ring...

I fitted our new bathroom last year, and sure as with all DIY plumbing work there were a few minor leaks which got sorted out soon enough. I used the push-and-twist type plastic pipe connections throughout and since I made them up last year there have been no problems. We are about to...

I hired a rotary breaker with a sharp wide chisel and got them up without too much of a problem in the end (lots of sweat and a couple of blisters). I then checked the level and the floor was around 10-20mm too deep. I heard this was too deep for latex so treated with PVA and then levelled...

Have you reset the controller? I installed my quartz a year ago and the mains switch is in the electricity cupboard (rather than having a single switch outside the bathroom). I generally leave it switched on all the time, and occasionally it refuses to start when I push the button...

Looks like I'm going to have a combi boiler fitted to our utility room. I have been told it needs to be on an outside wall so the flue can go through it. The flue could als go straight up through our utility rm roof to vent. That said, I was hoping to extend above the utility rm in the next...

I am hoping to get a heating engineer to replace my Baxi back boiler with a combi boiler in the opposite side of the house - there are H/C pipes there so he says it should not be a problem. The reason I want the combi is that I used to have one in my old flat and it gave me great instant hw...

I recently took down a block wall between my kitchen and dining rm and now have a good sized room with half good condition (although slightly squeaky) wooden floorboards and half (kitchen half) concrete. The kitchen must have sloped slightly as the concrete drops the further away from the...

Guys, I'm planning to build a japanese garden and want as the main feature, an open gazebo/pagoda. There will be no walls, but four 6x6 posts supporting a shallow pyramid style roof. Obviously, a person would need to be able to walk under the eaves but there would be...

All, I'm looking to build an 8ft square gazebo / pagoda with a slate roof, but supported by four six-by-six posts (no walls). The awkward part is it needs to be a pagoda roof style - ie a normal roof with a hole in the middle of it, with a "second" smaller roof over the hole - with a...

Thank you very much for all your assistance. Out of interest, the timber has not been primed or treated with anything (unless maybe there was any preservative added during manufacture). I have a different adhesive for the floor tiles (it says its especially for use on floorboards). Maybe...

I have just tiled my bathroom using B&Q's own premixed adhesive/grout for bout £18 a pot. I also built a small 3ft square "plinth" behind the sink - something to screw the sink to and forming a three inch deep "shelf" bhind the sink for the wife to put her soap on - us men don't use soap...

Okay, I had the guy round to service the boiler and sort out the other problems at lunchtime today. He replaced my 2 yr old thermocouple and cleaned the boiler thoroughly and also replaced the motor in the motorised valve. I didn't see him actually TEST the thermocouple though. I checked...

Okay, I've been putting getting my Baxi 552 back boiler serviced for a couple of years, but now the problems are starting to mount up. 1. Pilot light goes out two or three times in a week - but then it's okay for a few months. Thermocouple was replaced by last service 2 yrs ago. Pilot has a...