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And with regards to kitchen and bathroom specific paint, are these Dulux options good? Kitchen: https://www.diy.com/departments/dulux-easycare-kitchen-pure-brilliant-white-matt-emulsion-paint-2-5l/125826_BQ.prd Bathroom...

Okay, not quite an unlimited budget but let's call it a generous budget. This is for a residential home with adults and very young kids (no pets and no smoking). Call me boring but I only want pure brilliant white. I asked a similar question a few years ago and a lot of people recommended...

Thank you for the reply, expanding foam with wire wool sounds like a great option. And in order to make it more discreet cosmetically, can I crush up some brick dust with some silicon and create a somewhat brick paste to make it blend in? Or, is there a better way to do this?

I've got a few pipes and holes that are in the outside brick wall. Two of these are from old pipes that are disconnected now: The others are just messy gaps around existing pipes: What's the best way to fix this? Some of the holes are really big and I wouldn't want birds, rats or any other...

Sounds like I could skip the ones not on the ground floor especially as the flexi pipes are boxed in so they won't appear translucent for the rat. I'm not sure I can avoid the flexi pipe for the ground floor toilet though, the toilet is a wall hung toilet that is fixed to a mounting frame...

I've got the modern hard plastic pipes. So question is, should I get those flaps fitted for non-ground toilets or is that being overly paranoid?

A flexi pipe on the waste pipe of a ground floor toilet seems to have been chewed through by a rat. Turns out this should have been installed with a one way flap to prevent it from getting to the flexi pipe. Something like this...

The bath tub I have should have had a pop up waste something like this: However, the actual plug part is missing so the bathtub drain looks like this: As far as I understand, I think the thing that is missing is plug thing with the stalk (sorry, not sure of the proper name) but something...

Because my cycle is in the garden outhouse. I want to be able to leave via the garden gate securing it while I do. And upon my return I'd like to be able to unlock the garden gate. There's a number of other scenarios when people might want to do this too.

I've recently moved into a house which has a very old and damaged garden gate that needs replacing. My previous places I've lived haven't had a garden gate so not entirely sure what's doable for security of the gate. Ideally, I want something that needs a key to unlock from the outside. I was...

When you cut the gasket with the extra excess, where does that extra go? I'm finding the gasket just buckles if I don't cut it to size. I can probably do an extra 5mm but more than that, then it's causing problems.

I think I know what you mean, I might need to test out the corner cuts with an off cut piece but cool, thanks. Not sure I understand about making the snips an inch longer than needed though. I currently have all the gasket as one really long piece. I wasn't planning to measure up and cut it...

And in case it's relevant, I have a wedge shape gasket like this: https://www.handlesandhinges.co.uk/4mm-wedge-compression-back-gasket-double-glazing-rubber-seals

I need to replace the window seal on the interior side of a glass door. The old seals were cut at right angles in the corners which didn't look very nice so I was thinking of cutting the new seals at 45 degree angles to make a neater join. But I then found this YouTube video () which shows...

I need to replace some of the seals on my rear door. This is what the cross section profile looks like (camera was not focussing properly so sorry for the blurry photo): Just to show how it fits in case it's not clear (red edge is what gets jammed into the door/glass gap to hold it in place...

Yes it did, test confirmed everything as expected. I have 3 water feeds at the kitchen: 1. Hard water for drinking and cooking, (but does goes through a Brita filter) 2. Softened cold water 3. Softened hot water via megaflo storage tank Test kit indicated 1 was hard which was expected. 2 was...

Thanks for the advice everyone, I ended up getting a test strip kit from Amazon. There's quite a few available but it worked out reasonably cheap.

Ah okay, the TDS device I have is a cheap pen type tool and it's been well over 10 years since it was purchased so I'm sure it's out of whack now. I'm testing via cold water which comes directly from mains through the softener system and I'm comparing it against the garden tap which bypasses the...

I just had a Harvey water softener installed. They left a water hardness test kit which obviously indicates all is okay but the sceptic in me dug out an old TDS meter (Total Dissolved Solid) to check the water. I had the TDS meter from years ago when I had a special deionisation filter to create...

It can't be dirt, fluff or dust as all 4 fans are brand new. That's why I think it must be a tension setting.