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Hi, I have just moved into an old house and as usual there are many things that need sorting. We have a mains pressure water tank that needs replacing, and I have noticed the cold water feed in to the house does not use the balanced cold output from the PRV. So at the taps (and shower) in...

Hi, I just moved into an old house and there are 8 or 9 loose wall tiles in the bathroom. They are not so loose I can safely pull them off without breaking so have been looking for a solution to secure them without removing. I noticed a solution on the web called 'fix a floor' which looks...

Hi, im in the process of building a deck and ordered what I thought to be 150mm x 50mm decking joists from buildbase that turned out to be 150 x 47mm joists. Not a problem as such, but the joist hangers I purchased were 50mm hangers and are a little bit big. These can be returned to...

We had a massive leak in the kitchen yesterday with a leaking mains connection. Managed to rescue most of eth cupboards etc but the water went underneath the kitchen porcleain floor tiles and into the living room and hall destroying the wood floors. We will have the insurance company out...

We had a massive leak in the kitchen yesterday with a leaking mains connection. Managed to rescue most of eth cupboards etc but the water went underneath the floor tiles and into the living room and hall destroying the wood floors. We will have the insurance company out over the next few...

I am having a worcester 18ri (18Kw) boiler installed in my garage as a replacement to an old 15Kw Ideal classic currently installed in my kitchem. The existing boiler takes its gas feed using about 2metres of 15mm pipe into a 22mm feed that is about 8-10 metres from the metre. The guy...

I am having my boiler re located into the garage and need some advice on the best approach for the condensate pipe:- - To connect into the house waste is possible but would need a condensate pump in the garage as the connection would be into the 1st floor bathroom waste just after the shower...

All, I need my boiler re located and replaced in the garage. As such I am looking for a good local plumber to do the work at the start of August. Can anyone recomend somebody in the Coventry area. Cheers Graham

I am looking for a slow setting and long workable plymer modified thick bed adheisve for fixing some concrete slabs to a concrete pad. Most I have seen seem to have a 'use time' of 20 to 45 mins and I was hoping there is something that lasts longer than this so I dont have to work to quickly and...

I have just had a 4" deep concrete pad poured by a local builder for a hot tub. As the pad will be supporting a hot tub which ways about 1900Kg it needs to be flat and level. The builder was awre that it would be used for a hot tub and as such that it needed to be flat. Unfortunately it is...

I have just fitted a Techflow QT120 twin shower pump in the loft. Before anyone tells me I know Techflow dont recomend it and its not the best place for shower pumps. Initially I thought the problem of poor pressure on the pumped hot side side was down to the pump being installed in the...

Im looking for some long (3.6m or longer) 120mm Taurus MDF skirting. They used to sell it in Wickes but now only sell 2.4m lengths. I live near Coventry - does anyone know anywhere local that supplies this, or somewhere further away who delivers? Thanks

I think I may have made a bit of a mistake. I finished my on suite bathroom about 2 months ago for which I constructed the shower base myself using 25mm WBP ply and Aquapanel. The walls are constructed with wedi. For some daft reason I thought Aquapanel was waterproof (like wedi) and I now...

Im building a wetroom and have fitted an ACO channel drain. The floor is built using 22mm ply overlaid with aquapanel and im just about to 'dress' the junction between the aquapanel and ACO drain. Im doing this with the usual waterproof membrane (from Wedi) which will be set in cementous tile...

Im in the process of buidling a Wetroom and will be putting the toilet Cistern in the loft (Cistermeiser flush master - electronic). I guess it will be like a High level csitern but with Infra red sensor to initiate the flush. The problem I have is that I need a long flush pipe (about...