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Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes, heating still seems to be working so that may be it. Will have a look at that part then. Cheers.

Do you reckon a dyed 'standard' mix would do the trick, or would I have to dye a heat-resistant/fire-rated mortar?

Cheers Woody - I was hoping to avoid that! Thanks for the advice. (y)

I intend to chase out the old cracked mortar and repoint it all with fire-rated cement, but first I need to fix the visible faces of bricks that have been cut in half or damaged as I took out the back of the hearth.

Hi, Does anyone know of a brick repair filler that can be used to tidy up some damaged brick faces inside a newly reopened chimney hearth? The opening is double-sided (two walls, straight through) and will have a wood burner, not an open fire. I'm hoping to avoid digging out the offending...

Thank you for all of your help everyone. I've just bought a switch as per the advice!

Managed to get a diagram knocked up to show my problem.

Hello, Is it possible to connect two ethernet cables into a single RG45 type socket while keeping a connection for both? We currently have a desktop PC and a games console sharing the same wall socket connection but have to keep unplugging one or the other to use them. Would prefer an option...

Hello, I've just removed two internal walls to make one larger room. The chimney now remains in the middle of the room and the next plan is to increase the existing hearth opening and then make a new opening at the back so that we can put in a double-sided burner. The existing front of the...

Thank you fellas.

I'm planning a new footpath to follow the walls around the back of the house and would like it to drain to an existing soak-away. Is it acceptable to butt Aco drainage channels directly against the house walls (well below dpc), or should they be spaced away? Cheers.

Hi, Currently re-routing the mains water supply into our house due to an extension build. Will also be replacing stop-cock for new as the original is about to give up by the looks. Does anyone know which Philmac type fitting will be right for joining new 20mm MDPE to the original 1/2" Class D...

Hi, Currently fitting a new toilet unit back to the wall (to replace an old 45 deg ceramic toilet that constantly dripped condensation and wrecked the floor). Please see photo: The unit depth is 200mm, and the centre of soil pipe to the centre of WC is also approx 200mm. Any ideas on how to...

I would normally have agreed, but the bath was designed for the taps to be there. The actual taps we have chosen only protrude 40mm above the deck (not the ones in the pic). Any problems, take off the side panel and the pipe work is laid out before you!

Cheers for the reply, it just seemed wrong putting them in the wrong way round looking at it from this side!

Hi, I'm fitting out my bathroom, and have the same bath as the one pictured below - Is the hot tap on the left from outside the bath, or from inside the bath? Cheers.

Cheers Woody.

Would lap vents be a reasonable remedial alternative?

That is the reason I asked - the porch walls and floors are insulated (I should have put that in the first post really). The porch is an extension/projection outside of the original hallway, so does have heating in it too. The house is south facing and gets very hot some days, freezing on others.

We had a similar problem when we built our extension. We didn't want any manholes inside, so our solution was to send the sewage pipes out away from the house and into a sump pump at the end of the garden. This allowed for the loss in fall of the pipes. The pipework from the pump then kicks back...