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I have a problem neighbour (silly anti social stuff but annoying - don’t want to report anything in case it devalues my house if I sell) and want to monitor my property along a fence line without infringing their privacy. The area is between the gable ends of our two houses. Each of us has a...

I've looked at other threads but can't find anything on new toilet installations so hope someone can help me. I have fitted this myself but I'm a fairly capable DIYer. However, I cannot see what might be going wrong beyond the (brand new, supplied with cistern and toilet) parts being faulty...

Please see image. Replacing old vanity with new one with two drawers:- What is preferred installation for water and waste connections - do I cut out bottom of unit to route pipe work up or do I channel wall behind (breeze block) and run everything up?

My power shower pump serves two showers. One works fine but the other keeps cutting out for a few seconds, restarting then cutting out again. I've checked the pipework, hose and showerhead and they seem fine, so only thing I can think of is the mixer. It's an old Grohe Grohtherm 100 concealed...

In UK, I am looking for something like this - I have 2 extractor hoods side my side and this would do the job perfectly - I've tried links on the web but they're either in the US or Blauberg UK won't be stocking it. Failing buying one, can anyone suggest a way to make one - not sure how...

We have a single power pump feeding two showers. when one of the showers is on, the other shower leaks a fair bit (water comes fro shower head). The main consequence is a lack of flow to the Shower being used. The ‘leaking’ shower is a Grohe bar control - not sure what model but about 7 years...

I want to keep a manhole cover on our drive looking good. Can I paint it to stop it rusting and what would you recommend?

Attached image shows a socket layout I have inherited (and my blood underneath!). All three sockets are mounted in a single recess on two double and one single back boxes adjacent to each other - no gaps between them. To compound matters, the back boxes are not deep enough for the recesses...

This has also been posted on the Screwfix community. Attached two pics show a 'peninsular' in my kitchen with a raised 'backstand'. Backstand is former cavity wall. Plan is to remove the backstand to floor level, extend worktop from 600mm to 900mm wide (i.e. to edge of pillar) and cantilever...

Thinking of putting a water feature in the gap between brick piers in our garden wall. Gap is 6ft x 6ft x 1ft. Looking to put resilient, nil maintenance panel at rear of gap and decorative panel/face to front where water feature will be. Fairly competent DIYer, so happy to lay bricks if...

Looking for a simple, low (nil) maintenance infill fence/panel between piers in brick wall. Gap approx. 6ft x 6ft. Looking for something like a plastic fence panel/tongue and groove between galvanised steel channels (or similar, or on brackets). Any ideas?

My daughter is just about to have her garden landscaped. She has not thought about lighting or electrical requirements but thinks she may want some lights in the future. She already has external light and an external socket on her (new) home. To save time and hassle at a later date, I was...

Hope sketch is clear. I’d like to spur from an existing socket to a new one in another room. ‘Easiest’ route is through wall behind existing socket into another room, chase wall round internal corner, along wall running perpendicular to it and drill through to new socket position. Is this...

In a downstairs room (not bathroom or shower room), I want to change a pull switch to a standard light switch and pendant light to spots in different positions to original pendant. I can reach the switch positions from above by lifting floorboards, but the pendant is out of working reach due to...

I'm a DIYer - reasonably competent. I want to replace a radiator with a heated towel rail, possibly moving position, so valves need to be removed. I have a sealed CH/HW system. Can I do this without having to drain the entire heating system, and how?

I'm a reasonably competent DIYer. Pic shows current configuration of toilet in downstairs cloakroom. We are planning a refit with all new fittings, decor, etc. Obvs, but soil stack is in right hand corner. I'm going to box-in new cistern to hide soil pipe from loo and install a back-to-wall...

I want to replace this old Honeywell stat with a digital stat (Honeywell DT90). Old stat has 4 wires (I’m assuming these are Live-Red, Switched Live-Red, Neutral-Black and Earth-Yellow/Green). Earth is isolated and others are connected, I think, to Terminal 1=Live, T4=empty, T3=Switched Live...

Water leak (found and fixed) has damaged plaster on textured ceiling (see image below). I’m no plasterer. How should I fix it? Could I get some glue behind it and press back to ceiling? Blistered plaster is brittle. Not sure if it is plaster or some other substance that might soften (e.g...

Considering having Virgin TV and broadband. Want TV in 3 rooms. House is traditional construction. Rooms all have TV co-ax outlets with cables to loft, including the one that Virgin will make first connection to. I don't want cable wrapped around my house. I know Virgin will supply cable I...

I want to replace floorboards with ply prior to tiling bathroom but cannot replace entire area to be Tiled because of where joists fall. At the door to the bathroom I'd be left with about 300 mm of original floorboard. Can anyone see a problem with this from the tiling perspective? i.e. Would...