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Thanks both. To be honest, it’s the strength of the bricks that is stressing me out most. Every time I’ve drilled into them, the fixing has just spun the first time so I’ve had to have another go an inch or so over to find a stronger spot

I’m having a bit of a panic about how I’m going to fix a wall-mounted sink and cabinet to the wall. The walls have been dot and dabbed and will be tiled. Where I’ve fixed into the wall so far, I’ve used these http://products.dewalt.co.uk/fastenings/productlist/hierarchy/2872/ and it’s often...

I know that there are other threads on this so apologies for making yet another, but I've tried a few different things and am getting to my wits end. I have a 15mm isolation valve serving a bath tap which I've fitted and is leaking slightly more than a weep. I think that I originally tightened...

I've submitted a request for a quotation from one and am waiting to hear back. Since posting this, my local council responded to my email with a regularisation application form which I believe is the formal way of retrospectively signing off works. What concerns me with this is whether they will...

I've had a lot of work carried out, mostly by a builder, and although I knew that it would need signing off, I did not realise that it was a requirement to make the council aware that you were planning to carry out works, as the builder did not tell me this. Granted I completely agree that I had...

I got it with a long bit of wood and a clip screwed to the end. Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Oh but to have the luxury of a toilet at the moment...

I was thinking of something similar actually, but not sure I'll be able to get the balloon into the end of the copper tube.

Good idea. I'll give that a go. The top of the boss is level with the floor, and it's sitting in the bottom of the pipe so it's approx 6-7" away below the floor, but it's pretty much straight down. If I had access to a very small child (careful what I'm saying here...), they could probably just...

I had a mare at the weekend and dropped an isolating valve, along with about 2" of copper pipe on the bathroom floor where it inevitably rolled into the 40mm boss I've fitted for the bath waste, and into the soil pipe. The pipe is horizontal so thankfully it's not dropped away, and I can still...

They won't be opposite each other, they'll be at 90degrees, I drew it as above to try to make it clearer. Point taken about avoiding cross flow though.

But in terms of layout, the above would be acceptable? I can't see any practical reason it wouldn't... Would the toilet / basin float need the AAV? In a standard arrangement, the toilet enters the vertical stack without a vent upstream from it so I'm concerned I may be being over-cautious. I...

Schematically it will be roughly as per the attached. I guess my main question is whether the vent can be taken from the bath / shower waste, with the toilet having an AAV or whether the AAV is needed. With regards to the tundish, I mean that it will prevent back flow into the boiler from the...

I'm doing quite an extensive renovation and just want to make sure my plan for the drainage venting is adequate. The house is a mid-terrace and has a flat roof extension at the back, the roof of which I don't want to touch if I can avoid it (trying to limit costs as it was done recently), hence...

You shouldn't need to isolate from the street, there should be a stop cock internally which will just isolate the house in question - the neighbours will be upset if it's off a shared main and you turn off their water... Find the stop cock and turn it off. There might be a drain cock near it...

Have you tried using the cartridge that works upstairs (i.e. gives you cold water) in the shower? If this gives warm water as well, the issue most likely lies with the shower body. Can you get into the temperature control knob to see if anything is misaligned?

It is a cold deck, yes. Although I do want to upgrade to warm deck in future - not that that will resolve the downlighter issue in the short term... I plan on using blanket type insulation as I have some left over from when I did my loft so I could potentially use covers for the lights (which...

Possibly. The issue will be that the insulation is in the ceiling void of a full width, flat roof extension and all the appliances sit under it. It might be possible to drop the cable within a boxed in section that will surround a column, run below the level of the work surface, and back up via...

What makes you say that? Recessing into the thermal insulation, i.e. lack of airflow for dissipation of heat?

So for clarity - 32A radial for hob, oven and hood in 6mm due to having to go through the insulation, and 32A ring in 2.5mm for everything else?