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Agree with #2 Might as well use a bottle of tipex ! Either some serious scrubbing with bleach etc or a grout rake and re-grout !

Ha - excellent. Here's me (a fine limits engineer) machining a piece of brass down to 6mm and drilling the centre to form a tube, then putting into my piller drill & applying car valve grinding paste and grinding the 6mm hole for the wall plug in the tile. That new fangled tool would have...

B&Q do the same thing for their IT kitchen range, complete with grid and rulers. When I did my kitchen (many handles to be fitted at the same height) I just drilled new holes in the template where I wanted the handles, then lined it up with the top corner of the doors and marked the hole...

Bung the oversize holes up with tooth picks (hammer the last 1 or 2 in so they are good & tight) then start dripping some THIN superglue in the gaps, use THIN (available from moddeling shops, eBay etc) and keep dripping it in until it forms a pool, that way the superglue will also seep into the...

Many thanks for the replies pep's. I didn't think about the lack of air round the copper meaning no condensation so thats one problem outta the way, and as I'll be forming the lower S bend to exit the wall it'll leave only 1 joint for the 22mm elbow at the top so I'll solder that one to be...

Hi Ismellgas Many thanks for the speedy reply :-) The wall in question is a external wall (brick outside, cavity, breezeblock then plasterboard 'dolloped' on) I have seen other houses where the copper 'appears' to just go straight into the wall but not having seen it installed did'nt...

I just did my kitchen and my walls were like a dog's hind leg, I used new MDF skirting that I pre mitred and painted and attached with Unibond 'No More Nails' (have tried other brands and NMN is by far the best) Basically when the skirts were ready to go in (paint dried etc) I applied PLENTY...

Hi all, sorry if this a bit long winded ! Ok - I'm going to COMPLETELY revamp my bathroom starting in 3 - 4 weeks when all the goodies are delivered by Wicks, I just have a few points I'm not 100% sure on & hope some kind sole will steer me in the right direction ! 1st thing to mention is...