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I'm seriously fed up with this cistern (close coupled toilet from B&Q). I've sorted one leak and now another. Where the flush valve goes through the bottom of the cistern it will not stop seeping, which results in the top of the pan filling up with water and the water seaps out between where...

I seem to find fitting skirting boards one of the most difficult jobs. I've just been doing a bedroom in one of our houses are it's just soooo frustrating. House is 150 years old, brick construction with old crumbly lime mortar. Plaster straight onto brick. Walls are all over the place as...

I was told they only offer pre planning advice for home owner extensions and developments of 10 dwellings of more. Not very helpful

I contacted the planning office for some pre application advice and they were unable to give me any for this type of development.

If the water is getting in between the metal washer and conical washer, then surely putting silicone in the holes at the bottom of the cistern wouldn't actually stop that happening?

Just fitted a new close coupled toilet from q and b. I can stop it leaking from where where the cistern attaches to the pan: I'm getting drips seaping down the thread, I assume it's getting in where the metal nut at the top is against the metal washer. Should I be tighting ALL nuts...

We'd like to demolish an 19th century 2 bedroom end terrace(w/cellar) and put in planning for a new detached dwelling on the plot. Was originally planning to extend the current house but after considering the amount of work/money needed to repair it + the extension cost I may as well just do...

How do these combined bath tap/shower mixers compare to stand alone manual shower mixers? apart from the obvious of the hose being attached to the taps.

Are these types of skirting the only moulds people know how to sell? I've spent ages looking on the web for a supplier of skirting but all of them (in the UK at least) seem to offer the same old boring designs. Anyone know where I can get a mould like this...

3 would be cheapest, 1 would be messiest, 2 seems pointless. If the plaster is sound enough just knock off the high bits and get a decent plasterer to level it with bonding and then skim. That's what I'd do. It's amazing how much volume of rubble and dust is created when you knock plaster...

I have an Erbauer electric planer. The problem is, if say I'm planing down a door edge, it never produces a straight edge, it's always slanted off to one side as if I were planing an an angle. I've tried over and over again taking care to make sure the planer is totally flat against the...

Anyone any experience of shadow gap beads instead of skirting? I understand it's a lot more time consuming as you don't have the luxury of skirting/architrave to cover up.

I've ran out and wanted to get something done tonight, hence the post.

It's ok to use gas 'one wrap' PTFE tape on water?..... Just seems the same but thicker, is it?

Just put up a new stud wall for a shower. It'll be boarded with 9.5mm plasterboard. Before tiling it, is it wise to give it a quick skim coat with multi-finish/board-finish? Just trying to make it a bit more robust as regard water ingress. The rest of the bathroom is simply skimmed...

Lots of decent tradesman/companies are not LTD or VAT registered.

Can you buy directly from lafarge??

Can you dot and dab with poly backed boards? Once had a plaster who insisted you could dot and dab with foil backed boards and they all came off.

I have a shower elbow that requires a fairly large hex key, bit larger than a radiator hex key. I can't can't find anywhere who sells such a thing. Plumb Center, screwfix, tool station, Wickes, B&Q...just don't have anything big enough. Any ideas?

Imagine an old lime mortar brick wall with some pure white table salt thrown on in certain places. Just looks like that really.