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My internal walls are concrete or brick...or at least they are not hollow anyway. Where they meet the door frames the walls need to be rubbed down as it looks awful. Do I just use sandpaper ? Or is there something else i should use to make the walls smooth. Thanks

Hi, I installed a new wc and cistern a couple of months ago and have noticed that when the toilet is flushed the force of the water coming into the pan causing splashing out of the towl. Is there usually a setting on the cistern that can control how quick the water is forced into the bowl ...

I have just gutted and re-fitted my downstairs loo and one of the things I did was to put replace the rad with a towell rad and hid the pipes by boxing them in with aquapanel and tiling over. I also put some service valves on the rad tails but.....now I come to put another rad in my kitchen I...

I have just purchaed 2 panels to put in my bathroom that are going to go around my toilet which I will then tile onto. Do I really need to purchase aquapanel screws ? Or can i just use drywall screws that I would use with plasterboard. Also I am cutting the board into 3 and butting them...

I have just purchased a rad and where the radiator valves screw into, there are plug in the rad that I think may be transit plugs from the instructions. Do these just screw out ? I dont want to do any damage ot it, the transit plug has a very large cross that none of my scewdrivers are large...

I have just purchased a Lapis mono tap and it has come with 2 tap tails, I want to buy some different tails that are push fit but I have two options, M10 or M12 connectors on the tap end. How do i work out which I need, does the 10 and 12 stand for mm ? as the connector does look about 10mm...

I've just put up some plasterboard on my ceiling as it was looking quite aged and I'm getting a plasterer to do the walls anyway soon. When putting the new boards up (only very small room, some of the edges when butted up, are not 100% level, it look like the joists may not be 100% flat. So...

I'm gutting my wc room downstairs which is also where the cold water supply to the house comes in. If I want to replace these pipes and move them slightly, I've read up on the speedfit site and sourced the PE_Copper Coupler that I will need to put on the pipe that enters the floor, then a...

I am about to call in a plasterer to plaster my ceiling, and walls. The room is my cloakroom/wc room which is only 1m by 2m. I have scrapped all the paint from the walls leaving the original grey plaster walls. Should I do anything to the walls to prepare them for the plasterer ? Thanks

I've pulled up some old vinyl floor tiles from my small bathroom and will be puttng dow ceramic tiles instead. The floors is dirty and dusty still, is there a floor paint i should put down first before i start my floor tiling ? I'll be putting down some underfloor heating - the wire type...

I've taken our a wc from my downstairs bathroom, and it was put on top of tiles. I've been advised when i put the new wc in to remove the ceramic tiles on the floor and connect the wc directly to the floor. Is this really necessary ? What complication are there if the wc is put on top of...

I keep seeing references for 110 connectors, so I measured my soil pipe which comes up in my concrete floor and it seems to be 100mm. I also have just purchased a new WC and the soil pipe on that is also 100mm. Have I got something wrong ? Thanks

So is a wall board ok for the ceiling then and should it be a certain thickness ? Thanks

I have just taken down a small ceiling in my loo as it was not in a good state while i'm putting in a new suite. Its only 1metre by 2metre so very small. My question is what do i buy to put up in its place. Its a flat roof so I just need to know what type of board to buy, I'll fit the...

its between the outside wall (top) and the dotted line. Wifes changed her mind, this is not for a wall hung loo anymore...just a back to wall loo so there will be no load on the wall. So I need really just a lightweight partition being constructed. What size would the studs need to be as I...

Oh I see what the catalogue means now, about only working with horisontal wastes. I'm happy to build a small stud partition as the wc is going into a small alcove so not much work is required to do this. Thanks for your help Dan

Thanks Dan, when you say set do you mean concrete like they did in the old days ? Or is bolting the loo to my concrete floor good enough. The wife has changed her mind in the last 24 hours....its now definately a back to wall rather than wall hung....which saves me some work. I have...

OK, so its called a collar. So the flexi pipe just pushes down the hole ? This is my first time doing this so I'm learning, if I find something too hard to do I'll call in the experts.... So when I purchase my loo, which will be a wall hung or back to wall, whatever waste connector is on...

Sorry I've attached a piccy this time, it looks like the thing I'm calling a flange maybe the top of the actualy waste pipe. So if its damaged as it is, have I a problem if I need to connect my wall hung waste pipe to this ? Free file hosting at filenanny.com!

Please see the attached drawing. The distance in the alcove is 700mm. The dotted line is where I beleive the 'new' wall needs to go, 1 metre high. The circle is my current waste hole. The red line is the steel frame which has brackets for the floor and to the "new' wall. I'll then cover the...