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Hi Folks I'm about to start fixing backer boards to my solid brick bathroom walls. They're Marmox boards and my plan is to both fully tile adhesive the backs and use fixing cob dowels. Once they're up, I also plan using some self adhesive butyl tape along the joins and over the dowel washers...

Hi Folks I'm redoing our bathroom and having knocked away the old plasterboard around the window noticed a couple of wet spots on the interior brick work below the cill. I've highlighted them here:- Under normal circumstances, I'd never have seen them as our sink / cabinet where based there...

Hi Folks I'm redoing our bathroom and got some lime mortar mix in order to fill some gaps between the bricks before attaching backer boards / plasterboard:- Thing is, now I've got it (!), I'm thinking how do I do this - just push it in and hope for the best / not worry about it? I'm thinking...

Hi folks Still working on our upstairs bathroom and having removed the old tiles and plasterboard above where the toilet was, I've got some pretty big gaps:- Also got an issue where I'll have a gap where that 2x6 beam which you can see on the bottom right below the window is. I had hoped to...

I'm just redoing our bathroom and we had a twin and earth cable coming down from our attic to supply a shaving socket. I've removed that (with the light circuit switched off and now terminated the wiring in a debox terminal box. My question is - Once the power is back on is it safe enough to...

Hi Folks I've just about removed all my tiles and backer board from our bathroom. The corners around the ceiling look like this:- So that's just a pretty thin layer of lath and plaster there at the moment, with the freezing cold attic above it. I'm planning to get thick insulated backer...

Hi folks I am currently removing old tiles and with the backer board to follow. My plan is to get some thicker 50mm XPS multi boards to replace them before retiling. However, I'm just thinking - What about all the holes which will be left in the brick work by the removed old mechanical...

Hi Folks Currently redoing our bathroom. We currently have a concealed toilet unit which directly backs on to what is a raised rear soil waste exit, with our sink to the right of that. What I am wondering is if something exists which would allow me to switch the toilet and sink positions...

Hi Folks I'm redoing our upstairs bathroom and got some good advice last week re what I believe is a lath and plaster wall. Here's another wall in the bathroom:- This time when I was removing the tiles they came off for the most part with the second coat of plaster. You can see for the most...

Hi folks I'm currently removing tiles from our bathroom, which quite likely hasn't been touched in decades! I'm just wondering what I have here:- And whether I need to keep going or stop here and have it re-finished over the top? You'll see to the right that there does seem to have been some...

Hi Folks I'm in the process now of redoing the bathroom, as I needed to remove some lead waste piping, which has lead to removing the bath, etc. My question now - whilst everything is out / capped - is whether I should fit some isolation valves in our kitchen below? The pipes are boxed in but...

Any ideas anyone? It seems to have some 15mm copper piping inside the fixtures. The flexi piping going into it, which was floplast, didn't have any inserts as it just went around this in the fixture. Screwed shut and released in exactly the same way as speedfit otherwise...

Afternoon Folks I have a problem in that I'd like to remove our bath for access reasons whilst replacing a leaking lead pipe. The stack in the corner looks like this:- First of all, the white 15mm flexi piping is Floplast so would that mean these must be Floplast tees as well? Or could I...

Good Evening All I have a problem with a leaking old lead pipe feeding from our bathroom to cast iron downpipe which I previous posted about here:- https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/leak-from-bathroom-sink-bath-waste-coming-underneath-old-external-wall-cast-iron-joint.649279/ I got some good...

Good Afternoon Folks I have a tricky issue here which I am hoping someone may be able to offer some advice / recommendations with:- We have a leak which has developed somewhere in the piping between our upstairs bathroom and the joint to the old cast iron elbow (? sorry, think that's the term)...