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Hi I am midway through having my bathroom done and the builder has found an issue. The room has a small section of old chimney in the corner and this is where the new toilet is going. He has been in the loft and says he needs to put a small bit of steel up there to support the chimney for...

i have fitted 169mm tall torrus throughout my house and i would never use grip fill. Main reason is that i have tried it and the skirting ALWAYS warps when drying and so with grip fill it just pulls away. I have just used screws that i counter sink into the skirting and then fill/sand over...

luckily for me it seems tightening the nut has fixed the leak and not caused a major issue. I cleaned up the joint and it looks OK so for now i'll leave this one alone. Thanks for the tips on how to drain down the system - no doubt i'll be needing that in the future. thanks

thanks for the response - i looked in the FAQ and as far as i can tell its as open system as there are a couple of tanks in the loft, one of them is above where the hot water tank is in the bedroom cupboard below. Also of note though is that i dont appear to have a drain valve on any of the...

On decorating a bedroom just about ready to have new carpet fitted i notice that there is water weeping from the left had radiator valve, is this the 'exit' valve ? Its leaking from where the valve attaches to the copper pipe so i guess the olive is shot or something similar. I also note that...

even if boiler is relocated from diner to new kitchen? If so then thats a result!

thanks - think i will wait for the extension if i can! Having this 'back' boiler is there any way to replace it and reuse existing feed pipes to the downstairs rads (4)? I ask this as about 2 years ago we had solid oak floors laid throughout downstairs hall, diner and lounge and i would be...

thanks for the reply - whats gassing ? Thinking about it the bleeding seems to have started since turning the thermostat up a bit for the winter - does that signify anything?

Hi In my victorian semi i have a gas fire with what i know as a 'back' boiler, i dont know what its technically called but we dont use the fire at all just the radiators. In a couple of years we'll be doing a large kitchen extension and so will change the boiler at this time, however i...

thanks for the reply - i guess i have to wait and see with them, i have grouted them now anyway so fingers crossed! moral of this story - dont use bucket adhesive muck, use bags hey ho

SDS drill on hammer action and a tile removing chisel - like hot knife through butter and about 100 times less effort than a bolster

Hi finished my kitchen floor last night with 7mm thick tiles and it looked great, got back in there this afternoon and it appears that the tile surface is mottled due to what appears to be the pattern on the base of the tile showing through, perhaps this is moisture from the tile cement going...

Hi I am not asking for a quote or anything like that - I just wonder roughly how much it would cost to cut down and remove a conifer thats about 48ft high from a garden in wimbledon - Any ideas as i would want a rough idea before calling around for quotes thanks

Hi My victorian semi had 4 surface mounted switches in a square configuration, 2 were 2 way for hall and landing and 2 were 1 way for dining and lounge lights. I have since sunk a metal box into the wall and wired these 4 switches into a single 4 gang switch, again 2 are 2 way and 2 are 1...

Hi I skimmed the ground floor of my house and as it took me a few weeks of evenings/weekends (i am not a pro!) i chucked quite a lot of the waste water down the drain - Seems that this sludge of plaster and water has caused the drain in the back of my house to run slow. It drains but if say...

OK thanks i will check out to see if there is a valve on the bottom of the tank. Good news about the radiators. thanks

Hi I am wanting to change the sink in my kitchen. Our hot water system is a hot water tank in an airing cupboard upstairs and i wonder how can i change the hot tap? Do i have to turn off the cold supply and then drain the hot water tank? If so will this effect the radiators on any way ? thanks

Hi Just re-plastered (skimmed) the walls downstairs in a victorian terrace and seen as how the walls were done by me they are pretty good but on some of the long walls like hall and lounge you can see slight 'ripples' where its not completely flat. This has shown up since painting with white...

i am not overely fast at that spreading lark though!

that other spread was me :) i need to 'tidy up' a few areas...