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Hi all, our garden has a five course retaining wall between a patio (upper level) and lawn (lower). It is a bit unsightly so I was thinking of rendering it. The bricks seem very smooth so not sure if it this possible? If so, how would I go about prepping the brickwork - cleaning, roughing up for...

I'm thinking of doing away with the stairs carpet, and would like to paint it all with gloss, except for the treads which would have a dark stain. Pulling the carpet to one side I can see that the stairs have been painted with a grey paint (the upstairs floors are all the same). What is this...

The rail sounds seems like my best bet, so I'm ordering one online tonight (I was amazed to find that they aren't listed in the likes of screwfix, toolstation, etc.). I've found three studs where the cupboard is going. The first stud is in just about the right place for the l.h. end of the...

The cupboard already comes with metal plates for hanging it off. My main concern is what fixings to use - they need to be long enough to get through the gap and into the brick but I’m worried about the 65mm (if you include the pb thickness) each fixing will stick out of the wall by, and with all...

Yes! Seems excessive for dot n dab so could it be battens? It’s in the utility room and the wall in question is the back of the garage. It feels like there is insulation in there so maybe that’s why the gap is so big?

Hi all, the cupboard alone is 25kg, and the wall is breeze block with a 50mm gap between that and the plasterboard. Looking for suggestions as to what fixings to use here please...

I need to remove the worktop in our utility room but there are four pipes from the boiler that pass through holes drilled in the worktop. There isn't much wiggle room (a mm or two at most around each pipe) so any tips for getting the worktop out while minimising the risk of damaging a pipe? I...

So they are all a standard 1/2" shank then, despite me measuring it at more like 3/4"?

I need to replace our toilet fill valve (bottom fill, brass shank) and I've noticed that most on sale have a 1/2" thread. I've measured the thread sticking out of the bottom of our cistern and it's more like 3/4" dia. Do we have an "unusual" size, or do I just buy one with 1/2" and put it down...

We have a problem with noisy neighbours - shift workers coming and going at all hours (engines running, doors banging, and one car with a loud exhaust). The exhaust is particularly bad as it's not only noisy but reverberates through the house. Our house already has uPVC DG from when it was...

We had a Worcester Greenstar combi boiler installed in April, which had been working fine until a couple of weeks ago. Now, several times a week it stops with an "EA" error code on the display (the Wave app shows a little more - "EA 56"). Pressing the reset button fixes it. I emailed Worcester...

We have one of those "wooden post" retaining walls between us and the neighbours (their property is a couple of feet higher up the hill than us). The wall is the kind with the round 4" posts hammered vertically into the ground and nailed into each other. It starts about halfway along the front...

So a shower fed from a bath shower mixer tap would still be at a decent pressure? We were warned pre-installation about combi issues such as slow bath filling. It's a pain but we've learned to live with it. It's only our little girl that uses the bath (we use an ensuite shower), and once we...

A few months ago we had our conventional boiler replaced with a combi (Worcester Greenstar 29Cdi classic), hot water tank removed, etc. Most of the hot taps around the house are now pretty much at mains pressure, but the hot bath tap seems like a trickle in comparison (although I should time how...

No it terminates in the loft and definitely an AAV after closer examination.

Our bathroom has a 10"x10" boxed in bit running up one corner from floor to ceiling. Inside is a soil pipe that emerges into the loft, which I assume is an AAV? The house is 15 years old btw. I'd like to refit the bathroom in the near future, but as it's only 6x6' it would be nice if I could...

It's in the existing twin&earth that the old fan was wired up to. I haven't looked in the loft but assume the T&E goes back to the ceiling pull switch. As soon as I explained the problem to the manufacturer they immediately offered to send out a new PCB, no questions asked, so perhaps they...

I currently have the new fan in situ, with its permanent live connected to the pull switch live (which is always "on"), and the fan's SL not connected to anything. The fan currently isn't working, so assumed I had wired it up wrong, hence my post here. I've found that the fan comes on if I...

I recently bought a "SwiftAir STY!00H" extractor fan (built-in humidistat and run-on timer) to replace an old extractor fan that is connected to a twin and earth, where the live comes from the switched live of a ceiling pull switch. I would like the new fan set up so that the pull switch is...

The only reason I was intending to remove the p/b in the first place was to (somehow) fit new studwork. My question related to how best to do this, e.g. a vertical stud, several horizontal studs, or whatever. However @jabuzzard's suggestion came up with a nice, simple solution! While I still...