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I recently completed a bathroom refurb and for the tiling I used a pale buff Mapei grout. The grout absorbs water and so for the 6 hours or so that it takes to fully dry after showering the grout lines in the wet area look unsightly. Even to the extent that about a month after finishing the job...

I managed to find a 2 minute video where the guy used a blob of Sticks Like...adhesive under the overhang. Why didn't I think of that?

I have a small raised terrace of old concrete slabs outside my lounge patio doors. I've taken the old slabs up and laid Indian stone slabs in their place. I have a tub of Sika Fastfix on the way to do the pointing with. The outer edge of the terrace is supported by a low retaining wall and the...

Yeah they are Indian stone slabs which have an absorbent surface but it may be worth trying the isopropyl alcohol.

While applying oil to my timber overhead door canopy I realised too late that the wind had moved the protective sheet exposing part of the stone slab entrance steps and I now have about six £2 coin sized oil spots on the stair treads. I've tried scrubbing with soapy water and rinsing with...

I have 15mm flow and return pipes traversing my lounge and I want to tee off them to install an additional small rad using speedfit fittings. Is it usually possible to manipulate the pipe ends into the speedfit tee with a single pipe cut or is it sometimes necessary to cut a short section of...

Much appreciated. I'll give that a try.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that option. Are there also adapters to use diamond drill bits on angle grinders?

I've almost completed the porcelain tiles in the bathroom. The wall where the shower screen needs to be fitted is a stud wall. Before fitting tile backer boards I inserted timber noggins corresponding to where I anticipated I'd need to screw the shower screen vertical hinge and marked the...

I resorted to my circular saw in the end. It's a longer process than using a manual cutter on account of having to go outside to do each cut, not to mention annoying the neighbours but a professional manual tile cutter is way too expensive for a one time use. The cuts are OK but not as sharp as...

Sorry my mistake, the tiles are porcelain not ceramic

I've just started tiling my bathroom with 6mm ceramic tiles. I soon discovered that the cheap manual cutter which worked fine for my thinner kitchen tiles is no good for these tiles. I can score the tiles ok but then however much pressure I apply they just won't snap. I've done a few cuts with...

Well that's another head scratcher for me because there's no obvious place in the system to dose with products. There's no magna clean as an option and all of the rads only have a bleed screw threaded into the back of the rad. It's a Greenstar combi so there's no braided filling loop that could...

I don't know. Possibly a schoolboy error but I didn't check because I was replacing each of the lockshield valves.

I didn't do a full drain down though the rads are very long single panel types so by the time I'd emptied all 3 that's a lot of water drained. The water was mucky but each of the rads was stood up vertically for a time and there wasn't gunk discharging just some dirty water. It's a combi boiler

Forgot to say that the pin on the TRV is functioning properly.

I replaced the lockshield valves on each of the 3 rads at the same time and have them fully open. The problem rad is now warm but it seems to have maxed out at 45c compared to 58c for the downstairs rads

Thanks Terry. I've done that and it is now warming up albeit very slowly. It's now at 35c after about 20 minutes. What's the explanation?

I spent the afternoon fitting Drayton TRV4 rad valves to 3 bedroom radiators today. Bedroom 1, closest to the boiler and bedroom 3 furthest from the boiler are operating as expected. The rad in bedroom 2, between the two is not getting hot. The tail coming out of the trv into the rad is very hot...

The shower is currently at the opposite end of the bath to the taps. Due to the window there isn't space to fit a shower at the taps end. It feels all wrong showering with your feet up against the slope at the back of the bath so ahead of retiling I want to turn the bath round. Height wise space...