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Hello, I’m planning on converting my back bedroom into a separate shower room and bedroom. I’ve seen online a lot of guidance around clearances in front of toilets, part P for electrics etc but wanted to ask if there were any specific requirements for bathrooms. I.E you have to leave X amount...

Thanks both, the walls aren't damp at all and there is only damp on the floor as it was just dirt. Hopefully by doing this it should be fine. Just thinking, as its inside, can I lay the slabs as-is on the DPM over the sand, do they need to be bedded in concrete? What's the benefit of doing so?

Hi all, I have a basement that I want to use for storage. I’ve put down sub base and sand and visqueen DPM. Plan was to pour concrete slab but no concrete companies round here will pump 1m3 as they all have 2-4m3 minimum orders. I don’t have anywhere to mix up that much concrete myself so...

Great thank you, I’ll get cracking in the morning

Hi all, I've just bricked up a old window in single skin outhouse and want to put in 100mm kingspan, board and skim the inside. Could you tell me how long i have to wait before getting cracking with kingspan and plasterboard? As its single skin i thought i could get started quite quickly as it...

Yup changing the laminate and although it doesn't need to be hinged, it is now and does make it easy so would ideally like to keep it. I think i'm going to go with heavy duty cabinet hinges so i can have a nice trim all around.

Haha that would be fun. So the metal work is just the surround, the door plug is supported by noggins and joists on all sides below it, as much as i would like a James bond style trap door for unwanted guests, the misses would never allow it! The aluminium plate would be purely decorative to...

Hello, Hoping you can help me with some advice. The trap door in the picture is really ugly and we are laying new laminate this weekend. I plan to get rid of that awful metal frame and use threshold bars cut at 45 degrees and glued to the door to hide the gap. I would really like to hide the...

Thank you both, appreciated!

Hi, I’ve turned my heating on for the first time in about six months and there is a drip coming the big black thing in the photo. Can anyone tell me what it is? Thanks!

Hi, The basement floor in my house seems to be half finished. Literally half of the floor looks like a thin layer of cement that has been poured over a plastic sheet which was on a bed of sand (with the dirt floor underneath the sand). The other half of the basement is just sand. I don't know...

Hello, I am going to lay a solid wood floor in a living room but there is a step down into the kitchen, how can i finish an exposed edge (it will be the groove not tongue) or is there a 90 degree bend i can buy to continue the floorboards vertically over the step? As you can see, it's a tiny...

it was the guttering and the fascia, both of which have now been replaced, along with some slipped tiles. I don't envisage any further damp as the issue was obvious and has been sorted. The way he put it was that it (slurry) would protect the inside of the wall if there were any future damp...

Hi @Godwasaplasterer, thank you. the roofer who did the remedial work recommended doing it as it was an older wall and due to their being a window there, to avoid damp coming through in the future. I still have the other room to do which hasn't been slurried yet. What would you recommend doing...

Hi, Hoping someone can help. I have a wall (double skin cavity wall) that had damp. The damp problem has been fixed and the bricks are now dry. I have painted it with sand + cement tanking slurry with a waterproofer added. Can I get away with bonding and then skim? I’ve read somewhere that you...

Hi @foxhole, Yes they will be, kinda, the plan would be to use something like 9mm sheet of Plywood/MDF and chamfer the edges with a router. Thanks.

Hi all, Im planning on starting a project to build some plantation style shutters for my bay window. In the plans i have, they use plywood, but I'm thinking it may be easier to work with MDF. Is there a reason you wouldnt use MDF in a project like this? These shutters would be on the internal...

the outside of the bay is render is a good state and the inside of the bay is painted black tar so i doubt there is a problem with damp. The window has just been replaced too so should be solid

Hi all, I have an upstairs bay window that has bitumen painted underneath it (I assume to prevent damp) and then been wallpapered directly on top and it looks god awful. Its single skin so I want to insulate and board. Can I stick insulation directly to the bitumen with foam and then board and...

Thanks @JP_ , I’m going to go with your option, thanks for providing the list of stuff to get. A couple last stupid questions. If I was to use those screws to add some extra fixings to it, i still need to use rawl plugs not just pre drill a hole and screw in? Also the screws are put in after...