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Is it possible to build a patio that is level with DPC, BUT the patio separated from the house wall with a 150mm width splash strip filled with decorative stone. Various reasons for it, but is this ok.

I'm planning to relandscape my garden, it is a garden which is sloped upwards. The ground level outside the patio doors is about 650mm lower than the highest part of the garden (3/4 the length). I'm looking to lay porcelain patio to the immediate exterior, 150mm below DPC. Then either sleepers...

Hi, I'm trying to add a radiator to our central heating system. The nearest pipework to connect to is in the airing cupboard on the landing. There is a few pipes there but from what I can make out the one arrowed red is ch flow (run heating and that's the only one that got hot quick)...

Thanks, but my question is if you start from a central point how am I supposed to infill the door areas when you can't lay the flooring back ward's

Hi, I'm just looking for advice. I have 5g click lock herringbone flooring, brand is polyflor. Below is a plan of my kitchen. I'm struggling to work out where to start my run they say in general to start of the longest wall build triangles, then run off them. My issue is my longest wall has a...

So you reckon that even with the chipped edges of a wet cutter they will look alright on a bead? Tried using a normal tile cutter. But tiles are 9.5mm porcelain and they always seem to break by about 10mm right at one end.

I get that, I have found the centre point and roughly run off that, but whatever I do I wasn't going to end up with a full cut on the external corner I mentioned.

It's got like a 1mm lip, wouldn't hide a tile cut by a wet tile cutter. The one I'm using leaves a rough edge.

I have 600 x 900 tiles. I am at an internal corner with a 450 cut, would you normally start the next wall with a 150 cut then full tile? If so then I have will have a cut into a external corner. Would you normally not run the uncut edge until a external corner bead ejther side to keep it neat...

We are retiling as we had a leak related to a bad tiling job by the previous owner. Walls have been properly tile backer boarded so it's water proof. So retiling but keeping same units for the moment and respraying them. From what I can see screens are about £220. There is nothing wrong with the...

I have a shower screen chanel (bit the screws to the wall) which has been damaged when trying to prise away from the old tiles. Unfortunately we are going to have to ditch it, but rather than buying a whole new shower screen can we just buy another chanel? The internal diameter is 30mm, there is...

OK I guess it gets us up and running for the moment, the issue with that is there is no drain connection for the dishwasher. So I need to add one. Would this be OK to add inline with the pipework, might have to be before the trap...

That's a fair point. In the end I connected it this way, hopefully that's ok?

The overflow is properly connected on the full size sink, the the dishwasher waste is connected to the half bowl which doesn't have an overflow.

Cheers for the advice the only issue I have is it has quite stylish drainer plugs, so if we ditch all that well lose that too won't we? Also rightly or wrongly I have connected the dishwasher waste to the overflow on the .5 bowel basket. Using what we have what's the tidiest way of plumbing it...

Hi I have a blanco sublime 1.5 bowl sink. The baskets have a sort of push fit connection underneath. Using the pipework they supplied to looks like the pic below. Not ideal really but there isn't enough space to put it at the back. What else would I need in order to get it plumbed up and can I...

No shower tray to fit. Using the existing one this is just a retile job but to use the tile backer boards to give it a bit more belt and braces! So the boards will meet the shower tray then I will seal the bottom with ct1 sealant.

I've just bought loads of Sts tile backer board 10mm from wickes, bought the adhesive that fills in the gaps too and the relevant screws. Seems as it this system will be totally water proof. Do you if it's all boarding in this stuff and sealed that we could still use the shower before tiling?

Had about 6 quotes to get the tiling redone since this thread. Got one in after the first one didn't get back to me or avoid calls, say they will call back and so on, I don't really get why you would spend an hour round a house that you are not going to do! waste of time seems to be a continuous...

haha! cheers chaps. I thought that was probably the case. To be honest I dont like the idea of the lever being at the front, but equally I want to be able to the tap on! as advised I will pop into b&q or the like and see how their taps work. the added issue I have is I have gravity fed hot...