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Ok so I have sorted the timing with the installer. Now the issue is buying all the supplies. Can I get the levelling compound or similar in smaller quantities? I really don't think I will need a 5kg tub for this small foor area. Or is there another product I can use? I'm thinking I might change...

Thanks all, this is helpful. Seems like I might have just been lucky with the existing floor because I don't think it had anywhere near as much prep! The difficulty is that I will need to do the floor after the installers have put in the new bath & toilet etc. so I'm not sure how to deal with...

That seems like a lot of nails for an area less than 3 square meters. The current floor is nothing like that. Why are so many suggested?

I'm in the process of ordering everything for a bathroom renovation and was planning to buy Karndean Knight LVT to install myself. The room is about 2.75m2. The current floor is made of hardboard nailed to the floorboards, with peel and stick tiles from Poundland that I put down many years ago...

I have an impact driver, but no use if I can't get the cover off...

I've successfully managed to loosen the whole tap now but not the bit I'm trying to take off, of course! Stupid to think I might end up having to hire someone for this simple job...

Of course I can't get that bit to turn either. I'll have to see what kind of tools I've got that might work.

I've managed to get this far but now I don't know what to do next. This tap has been getting increasingly hard to turn off all the way so I'm trying to change the washer. I'm sure I've done it before but now I can't figure out how to take it the rest of the way apart to get to the washer...

I need to replace my kitchen tap and I would like to get the kind that has a pull-out sprayer and a single lever on it. We have a combi boiler -- does that require the kind of tap with two handles to keep the pressure up? I dimly recall having some trouble with installing the current one and...

I used an adjustable one because I was being too lazy to dig out the proper wrenches but it fit fine. I'll try hot water.

The offending tap: I'm probably using the wrong terms for everything. I can't turn the large brass nut, but surely it must come out?

The tap itself stops flowing, which causes the boiler to shut down but only because the water stopped. I'm assuming I need to change the washer but I tried to take it apart yesterday and I can't get the valve to come out. I tried the usual tricks like WD-40 and whacking the spanner with a...

Yes, a combi. All the other taps are fine and both work and stay hot both when it's running and when it cuts out.

This just started a day or two ago but it got really bad this morning. When I'm running the hot water in the kitchen mixer tap it cuts out once the water gets hot. In order to keep it going you have to turn it on more, but if you leave it it will turn on and off again very rapidly. What should...

The outside tap was only fitted in June, so I don't know how it will fare in cold weather. I ended up just deciding to take the risk since at this point I don't intend to use any detergent. I'll be removing the hose when I'm done with it so maybe I shouldn't be too worried. I just thought it...

So is that a separate gizmo I need to buy in order to use the thing? I'm irritated that none of the information I read before buying it mentioned anything about this.

I just bought my first pressure washer and in reading the manual it has a dire warning about not connecting it to the regular water supply without a specialist backflow preventer. I did a lot of research before I finally bought a washer and this is the first I've heard of this. Is it something...

There are several others across the floor that also need to be replaced so that would be a lot of cutting! How would you attach the new boards if they are not clicked in together? Wouldn't gluing them to their neighbours stop it from flexing and expanding? I don't know what has happened to...

I have a click lock type laminate floor (bevel loc from B&Q, about 12 years old) that has a few damaged planks. The worst ones are in the middle, of course. I do have a couple of boxes of extra planks but not enough to redo the whole room. Originally the idea of being able to replace planks...

@Roger465 if it's any comfort I have a 1950s ex council house that had been rewired in the 80s and had various dubious looking changes over the years. We had an EICR done and the wiring was deemed to be fine. We made a few changes and had a new consumer unit installed and it was about £400 IIRC.