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A builder came round the other day, experienced, has about 10 employed staff, he said to paint the whole lot with PVA. Sounds too simple to me. I appreciate PVA would go into the tile and help bond/waterproof it but not convinced how long that would last - would have thought it might degrade...

Okey dokey. Guess there's no easy answer without actually seeing it, thanks anyway. (sorry, I don't understand the clock ticking reference :?)

Hi, Looking at a house built in the 1930s with a clay tiles roof. A few tiles are cracked and a valley leaking very slightly, so they need fixing. But this winter have also noticed a lot of chipping - noticeable as the bright red 'new' clay shows through the darker/weathered surface. I...

Ouch. Not being funny but it looks like undo a couple of in and out water pipes, a gas pipe, cable, maybe need to drain the system, then reverse after drilling the hole, which is why I said 3 hours. I know heating engineers are highly trained, but how many hours work is that for £500? I had a...

Hi, Quiz time. How much do you think to remove a Kingfisher II RS50.B (old but not used much and serviced reg) from a base cupboard, drill a top vent in the external wall at the back of the cupboard and put the boiler back again? This is at first floor level, so ladder work needed I...

Hi, Need to repair a driveway (ie not going to dig everything out and start again). Hopefully base is not too bad, slabs were fine for years until a skip disturbed a few. Slabs are the square shed/B+Q type about 3cm thick, 40cm square. Am intending to lift, fill/screed with sharp sand and...

He didn't do the consumer unit - no way! The bonding looks like it was both tap tails to a copper 15mm pipe behind the cupboard's backboard. It's next to the incoming mains, think it might be hot water supply that it was bonded to. I reckon the new sink is deeper than the old one and rather...

It's 4k of quartz with an undermounted Franke. Hence the disappointment at this sort of hassle. To be fair the worktop was put in very well (on the 2nd attempt - first was cut in the wrong place!), but they are clearly no good at plumbing.

You sum up my suspicions exactly!

Sorry, should have said: the uphill section is only about 6 or 7 inches long and rises by about 1 inch over that distance. Then it's a 90degree bend to horizontal length (about 40cm?) that takes it out through the wall, then 45degree down to the ground/drain.

Hi, A kitchen worktop installer has put a sink waste in that slopes slightly *uphill* for a few inches before going horizontal and then sloping downhill. It drains OK, there's no leak and no gurgling, etc. Can it be left or should we insist he re-do it? (er... again!) He's also left the...