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The new flooring will be oak wood. The old one you can see in the picture.

Hi I am installing a new floor on top of the original floorboards, I am going to glue the new flooring. The floorboards are painted in gloss paint, which is in very good condition. I need to roughen the surface before applying the glue for better results. I am planning to hire a floor sander...

The plan is to install two water waste lines for the bathroom. 1st water line will collect the water both from the washbasin and the shower, ending in a single 32 PVC pipe. Also install there a non return valve to prevent waste back-flow from the Saniflo. 2nd water waste line will collect the...

Hi, to explain it better, the route will be in three sections. Section 1: in the 2nd floor, PVC new pipe from the Saniflo 3m horizontally to the other side of the room were the old lead pipe is. Section 2: from the 2nd floor, lead pipe 3.5m vertically down to the 1st floor. Section 3: the...

Hi, I measured again the waste pipe. It is actually 45-46 mm outer diameter and 35-36 mm inner diameter. The wall thickness is between 4-5 mm. Here is a picture of a piece of the pipe I cut. I cannot install a 110 mm pipe. The connection I am planning to do is in the 2nd floor. From the...

Hi, I am creating a new bathroom with a toilet in the top floor of my house. There are two washbasins in the top floor rooms so I was planning to utilize the existing water waste pipes and install a Saniflo macerator toilet. Under the floorboards I found that both the water supply and the...

Hi, I am doing some work in an old house’s central heating and I have some odd steel pipe sizes. I can measure the bellow outer diameter of the pipes: 2.2 cm 2.7 cm 3.5 cm 4.2 cm 4.9 cm 6.3 cm 7.7 cm Any idea what sizes in inches are above? Many thanks

Great, many thanks! That primofit adaptor will solve my problem, I may use it also for some smaller diameter pipes instead of rending an electric threading tool. PS: the other option would be to destroy some of the recently new kitchen done by the previous owner and some basement walls...

Yes it is an old house that was converted to modern system with combi boiler but left some old pipes. To this one I have no access to change the whole of it. I need to fit a reducer from 2 1/2 inches to smaller diameter. Welding looks a bit dodgy in the right space and the wooden flooring...

This is for central heating, radiators water circulation. We change most pipes but this one we need to connect with the new pipes.

I need to connect a 2.5 inches steel pipe to an 1 inch pipe. It is in tight space and has a wooden floor underneath, see the pictures. I looked at electric pipe threader but they go up to 2 inches. Any ideas as how to connect a reducer to the 2.5 inches pipe? What options do I have? -Any...

I am going to install the insulation from the crawiling space, this is my only access. I would prefer rockwool panels to squeeze between the joists, I have done it before and it was easier to first fit the insulation and then support it with chicken wire. I have found some rockwool panels for...

Thanks a lot for the reply it is much appreciated. I suspected that the job is not done properly but now I also understand much better. I have checked the chimney myself and only the top 3-4 feet of the bricks was damaged. This part is now removed and replaced by the metal pipe so I believe the...

I want to insulate under ground floor. It is a suspended floor with wooden beams. I have access form the crawling space so I wanted to use rockwool. The problem is the distance between the beams. It varies between 61-64 cm so the standard 60 cm rockwool boards are not wide enough for tight fit...

I am having a new fireplace in the ground floor and repairing the old chimney on the roof of a two floor house. The chimney was battered by the weather for almost a century and was a bit tilt at the very top. I decided to remove the last 4 feet of the chimney and replace it with a metal pipe, so...

Hi I need to plaster the chimney breast of a new fireplace, i added a photo. Do i need any special plaster for this or anything else to take into consideration?

I also wanted to add that I am not sure if the finish on top of the chimney stack is done properly? what do you believe?

Hi I am installing a new fireplace in my house. There were 3 old ventilation chimney flues and a smoke flue on top of the chimney stack before. The 3 ventilation flues are now removed and only one, for the fireplace, is installed on top of the chimney. The new smoke flue is connected with a...

Hi, I am replacing a old fireplace from the 60s and the builder had to install a new flue. At the top of the chimney stack before there were four flues. Three with metal with cups and a fourth larger ceramic one open at the top. He has now installed only a new metal one in the center. Is this...

It is a long 4 meters sill so I would rather not remove it. I was thinking to first pour some plaster in the gap so as to fill in any cracks under the sill. Then to fill the crack with would epoxy filler. What do you think?