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After many years of successfully doing most of my own electrical work I suddenly feel disempowered. With my old consumer unit I only needed to press the button (or remove the fuse) that was directly on the circuit I needed to work on. With this new RCD one, I flipped the switch on the MCB...

I looked again at the fitting, and what I described as the soft polystyrene for the inside gasket is not that at all, it's like a very soft sorbo type of rubber. I was thinking, instead of using that inside, instead place it between the nitrile gasket and the underside of the bath, as it will...

So, I'll try the rubber dry first, and see what I think of the fit. If I decide it's not satisfactory I ditch the rubber gasket altogether and go for something like the paste and hemp idea - *or* the silicon? Is there any type of sealing paste I must definitely avoid on an acrylic bath? Is...

I am a DIYer, with no trade qualifications. I have bought an acrylic bath, and a normal waste set (ie not the banjo overflow type). The waste set has a chrome plughole, (which is supplied with a sort of soft polystyrene gasket that goes between it and the smooth inner surface of the bath)...

If you're hoping to stick the vinyl down, or it's self-adhesive tiles, I would have thought smooth side up would be the way. That's how I always do it - oh and prime it too! As for whether you need to put it under your appliances, that depends if they are going to be free-standing on the...

I think I know what you mean. It's a long time since I opened a toilet cistern so they might be designed completely differently now. Anyway when this happened to me, it turned out there was a tear in this sort of diaphragm of plastic that is meant to lift the water up when you press the...

So, what's the process? Obviously an architect isn't going to want a boring job like this. Do larger builders tend to have their own drawings people or is there someone else who can draw up the plans?

Thank you very much :)

Oh I haven't seen those before! Do you happen to know what "M" size is appropriate for standard backboxes?

Yes I agree it sounds like in this case there is some excess moisture being generated that could be reviewed. But I am pessimistically expecting that even if they stopped drying their clothes indoors there would still be an (albeit lesser) element of condensation in the cupboard as walls in...

You'd be surprised what stuff gets snapped up on Freecycle - used toilet seats and all sorts! Ok you don't get any money for it, but also you don't have to pay to have it taken away. And unlike on Ebay you're not expected to arrange to have it sent, the people usually pick it up from you.

The thing is, under some circumstances, you can't really avoid condensation without drying the air out beyond comfort levels. Basically the amount of moisture that is just a right healthy amount for your warm room, will automatically be too much when that air touches a cold surface. If you...

Yes! That looks ideal for my requirement #1, thank you!

Bleagh I don't know if I can face relearning how to use the camera - I only get it out about once a year and each time I have to sit there reading it for ages. I am not sure photos are really going to add much because I have taken the suggestion on board of using plastic mouldings, and I can...

I am not sure if this is the right forum for this, but anyway I want to have a lean-to type structure built against my kitchen wall to provide an enclosed porch and "outside" WC off. (Well the WC could be described as indoors or outdoors depending on your point of view and whether the door into...

I have just in the past couple of weeks used these Wickes glass mosaics for the first time. I did use the Wickes ready-mixed adhesive/grout and it appears to have worked out well. I marked out on the wall the actual area that would be covered and then applied the adhesive in a fairly thin...

I usually find that provided it is just a film and not lumps of grout, you can wait till the joints are completely dry then wipe the film off with a damp cloth and polish the tiles rubbing fairly hard with a dry cloth. You can get these rough canvassy cloths, I think they are called "scrim"...

1) Plastic or other non-conductive screws to fix faceplate onto metal pattress box. I have used some sunken backboxes and blanking faces in my kitchen to provide accessible joins in the cabling and would like to make sure in the event of any wiring coming loose and making the box live, the...

I think these window frames were an incompetent DIY job and they're a funny sort of stepped frame within a frame if you see what I mean. It would be very fiddly indeed cutting through any thickness to match the resulting cross-section, though if there was some sort of plastic material like...

Thanks. Of course this is the type of situation a uPVC window installation does so much better at :) In fact I have not had a uPVC window get condensation at all, and if it did, the water would sit harmlessly on a plastic cill till you could dry it off.