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It's meant to be a 3mm skim but could be less in practice. Doesn't really matter, buy for 3mm then seal down the gap.

Regardless of trade I tend to go for adverts in local weekly papers. On the basis these adverts must be renewed more frequently suggesting the tradesman does still want new business. It's also where newer tradesmen tend to advertise, again suggesting they would want your business. You could...

Don't overlook revised soil pipe arrangements. You'll have some making good to do with the WC gone. If this outlet isn't closed off properly you'll get some nasty niffs coming back at ya.

Would you really want a crooked pan even if the seal was sound? I guess this is an old house with bare finished floorboards you don't want to cover up? Surely the best (proper?) thing to do is to have the floorboards up and pack them underneath so they are level? If not... Can you...

I'm interpreting the question to mean a pan where the outlet is on the rear but where a soil pipe can be turned to the side with an elbow. That's perfectly possible on plenty of pans but definitely not all. Maybe I mis-understood the question though, perhaps we can have it clarified. Anyhow...

By the way, our standard bogs are also good for a health check. Floaters are good, sinkers are not so good, well so says the missus - they taught her that at school apparently... Can't do that with your fancy foreign bogs can you? And the pans tend to be wider as well so it can give you a...

Some pans definitely won't allow this even with the elbow as the area at the rear is partially enclosed. You won't always find this info on the net and there's no way of giving you an answer here that would allow you to determine it as it come's down to individual design of the pan. If you're...

My mate is expert on 'building a nest' before releasing the payload, I can relay his advice if required. I've heard it enough times, usually in the middle of food. Actually there is more to the 'shelf' pans than you might think. Continentals are more obsessed with a health check on the...

I've seen enough new builds round this way before the p/board cladding has gone up to know plastic/speedfit is a very common way of doing it. I'm told some plumbers like to make the drop from the ceiling in copper though. This doesn't make it the correct or best way to do it before I get...

Don't forget that every connector added to the run degrades the signal. In fact the ideal cabling run doesn't even have a wall plate near the TV, it is just 1 single run of cable from receptor to back of receiver. That said I'd try connectors first. Without a special meter I guess you'll just...

Are you sure you don't already have an aerial and therefore probably other cabling runs? Sounds like a stupid question to ask but it could be in the roof space somewhere you haven't looked yet rather than outside. That said the Sky cable should in theory be superior quality to regular coax...

Okay thanks. I can't argue with that advice. The overrun terminals on the boiler are for a live/earth/neutral anyway as opposed to just a live. So I suppose if I wire it like the manufacturers would like me to I'd need to dedicate a twin and earth cable to the pump anyway. Can't really see...

I'm wondering why boilers are fitted with 3 terminals to directly wire the pump when an overrun facility is present. Why can't they just have a switched live terminal and the pump takes it's earth and neutral from the wiring centre? Thanks, Robert

I'm modifying the supply cabling in my central heating system ready for a new boiler to be fitted (not by me I hasten to add). The old cable is 3-core and earth for supply live/neutral/earth plus a switched live. The new boiler has a pump over-run facility which requires a 2nd switched live...

All sorted. Just spoke to the plumber again and he laughed off any concerns about fitting it to the material in question, saying he does it all the time. Said to leave it to him if I was worried. In fact he's going to hang the kitchen cabinets for me as well. Shame I couldn't have saved him a...

So can we summarise your advice ChrisR as I'm reading it literally and may be incorrect: For a homeowner attempting own hanging (boiler, not me, though that may change), it comes down to his competency: Incompetent - Corgi engineer must adopt the fitting as his own. Consequently Corgi...

Well, I don't really want to start one of these if you've got to ask on here you're not competent type threads. But neither do I want to walk away and risk the chance the plumber is not 100% in this area - can you honestly tell me every Corgi registered plumber is competent at overcoming this...

Do I have to be Corgi registered to locate and fix the hanging bracket! I'm trying to save money by preparing the job for the plumber to do the rest who of course is Corgi registered. Thanks, Robert

We have lightweight thermalite blocks faced with dot and dabbed plasterboard. I have to hang a boiler on there. I'm scared stiff the thing is going to come off the wall as the blocks are so fragile (made like that, they aren't damaged). What fixings do the pros use? I'm prepared to go to...

I have to hang kitchen cabinets and a boiler onto a wall of lightweight thermalite blocks faced with dot and dabbed plasterboard. Finding a suitable way of doing this seems like the search for the Holy Grail! The best methods I have heard of so far are: 1) cutting out a 2 in square of...