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Recently refitted my bathroom and wanted to hide the bathwaste behind the platerboard wall/skirting board. Tried various experiments. Width from the bath to the soil pipe is approx 2M 1) 40mm waste with a fall of approx 2". Time to empty 3:15mins 2) 32mm wate pipe with a fall of approx...

I'm no sparky but from this post think I'm begining to understand the thinking behind part P or is it part 2 (whatever) Think by doing that you have broken countless regs. The main one that jumps out is putting the cooker socket under the worktop. They do need to be readly accessable WITHOUT...

Quick-Drying Acrylic Primer/Undercoat ?? For years and years been using left over vinyl emulsion, 2 THICK coats, rubbed down to remove brush marks, follow by 2 coats of Crown Liquid Gloss. Not a brush mark to be seen and mirror like finish :) Have I been doing it wrong all these years ??

Since the house was built in the early 60's I would hope that the settlement has finished ... but with all this dry weather you can never be sure :D Thanks for the advice will start in a few days. Got to speak to the neighbours first as I need access to their property to do it. Will do the...

Can't find the site where I saw a review on these or similar ones. The users comments where that they are too big and stick out rather than being flush with the mounting as a normal GU10 does so take care before ordering :)

One other thought. Since I'm not bothered about the internal appearance it will be covered with the new internal wall, and with the anticipated difficulty fitting the new brick into the hole. Would it be alright to fill all the space left by the brick removal with cement then cut the brick to...

yup the mortar joints line up and fortunatly the bricks that "tie" into the pillar are not broken. I'm not that clued up on this type of work could you please explain "tooth bond" When you say drill out the broken bricks would I be using a simple masoary drill or is there a tool for it...

Are you replacing the skirting. If so cut a channel in the skirting about 3/4 the height and depth. Offer the skirting upto the wall and at the points that its the furthest from the wall (they are never flat, fix a large headed screw into the wall a bit lower than the height of the skirting...

Thanks for the reply. Under normal suituation I would leave it alone, been like it for 40+ yrs. However since the wall will now be the outer wall of someform of cavity wall do feel that it should be fixed or made water tight at least. Currently unemployed so time is of little importance...

Hi Getting a little confused with all the new regs that are coming in. The light bulb in my living room has now expired. It was a 60W bulb and the room was never really bright enough so thinking of replacing it with a 100W bulb. Do I a) Need to get it P2 tested to ensure that I'm not...

Hi Have a garage attached to the front of the house and intend to borrow about 3' of it to extend the downstairs cloakroom and make it into a shower room. More question will come on that at a later stage :) But first need to fix the garage wall. There is a 2 brick pillar ajoining the...

Thanks for your understanding guys. Wondered if it was a mistake posting it here ... now I know it was :( Hope you never lose anything that is dear to you ...

... tried all the normal ideas so no trying the abnormal ones. We lost our African Grey Parrot (grey body, red tail, the size of a pigeon) from West Ewell on 12/05/2006. We got him in 2001 and named him Bubbles after a BB2 contestant my wife liked(how sad can you get). He doesn’t say his...

Fitting a new rad in the bathroom any day soon now so will put it in there then. Thanks for your help/advice :)

So sounds as if its worth adding ... but how would I go about doing that please

Had central heating installed some years back. Its a sealed system using a Worcester 28CDi combi boiler. I often browse this forum hoping to learn and pick up new tips/tricks and recently noticed a few threads where it been recommended to add an Inhibitor when filling a central heating...

Just fitted a new bath and have a very small problem that is REALLY REALLY bugging me. When draining the bath there is always a puddle of water left in the "well" at the back of the waste hole. Have tried slightly lifting the end of the bath off true to no effect. Don't want to lift to far...

Did look at a catalogue. Whilst it had some very nice blowup dolls it didn't have any plastic piping. Well none thats suitable for plumbing anyways :)

Yup there is a gulley with water in at the bottom. Does a 92.5 degree bend exist or is it a mythical creature?