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Hi, hope someone can help a confident and competent DIY’er please ?? :) I’m putting flooring down in a level 2.5m x 3m concrete floor utility room housing an oil fired boiler and associated pipe work, and a washing machine. I tend to overthink things, over engineering things, and go to the far...

Hi :), The search function didn't really help, so can the pro's please let me know if I should pva or mist coat a brand new plasterboarded and skimmed ceiling and stud wall before painting properly ?? The reason I ask is I don't want any flaking paint in a year or two's time. Many thanks :)

Hi :), Confident and competent DIY’er here, after some advice on gaps between boards please ?? I’m going to plasterboard the stud walls and overboard the ceilings to make life easier for a plasterer to skim them. I get frustrated that in 2025 there are still crack lines in plasterboard even...

Hi :), Confident and competent DIY'er here hoping for a bit of up to date advice please ?? I've turned a small section of my new block built garage into a utility room with a bog standard stud wall. I want to plasterboard the roof trusses and the stud wall part of the utility room for...

Hi :), Confident and competent DIY'er here with a query about my garage mains, hope someone can help please ?? :unsure: I had an extension done a couple of years ago, and part of that was a new garage. The qualified electrician did all the wiring, including a new fuse box which lives in the...

Hi :), As a competent and confident DIY’er I’ve got some more plumbing to do in 15mm copper. I only work with Yorkshire fittings, as it’s much easier for the unskilled :giggle:. I can’t say I’ve ever done a professional looking job, I always overcompensate by adding more than enough flux and...

Hi again :) Hope someone can help me with this one quickly please (laminate flooring is going back in tomorrow)….. I finally got my JG speedfit pipe in to replace the leaking copper. As you can see, it’s in a tight channel cut out of the concrete floor in the new kitchen extension (fully...

Hi, just a quickie please…… After a copper pipe leak nightmare, I’m finally resorting to 15mm JG plastic pipe instead :cry: JG recommend clips every 300mm on horizontal runs. Is this overkill or about right ? Cheers :)

Can anyone explain this to a confident and competent DIY’er please ?? It’s a bit long winded….sorry. A couple of years ago I ran 15mm copper pipe along a cut out channel on the edge of a concrete floor in the kitchen, which was subsequently covered with laminate. Today I heard a faint hiss in...

Hi :), Confident and competent DIY’er here……Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? I’m using 25mm thick MDF window board for my internal window sills. I want a flush square edge level with the internal wall. My Jedi mind powers are telling me a circular saw will make a dogs dinner of...

Hi, Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? Competent DIY'er here, who's soldered dozens and dozens of copper fittings without any issue. I've just cut out a section of vertical 15mm copper pipe that had a pin prick leak for months and had to use a solder ring slip coupling to put...

Hi, Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? As a competent DIY'er I've just tiled round the bath, applied anthracite grout, and now it's silicone time down two corner walls to the bath, and all the way round the bath. As the two corner walls down to the bath are going to be...

Hi :) , I could really do with some professional advice on this one please ?? As a keen and competent DIY'er I'm tiling a three sided shower enclosure with porcelain tiles (300 x 600). Its very, very rare that I have to do any tiling and I'm a perfectionist........but unfortunately don't have...

Hi, Probably been asked before, but no harm in asking again :unsure:. As a competent DIY'er, I've got to drain the oil fired central heating system to plumb four new radiators into the 15mm copper pipe work. I've always used PTFE tape and jointing compound on all my joints, but It's a pain in...

DIY'er, non plasterer here, hoping for some labour saving advice please ?? I've got to fit a shower tray and tile the walls in a bathroom where one of the 90° corners is well out of true. The plaster is proud where the two corners meet in both directions, making fitting the shower tray...

Hi, Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? I'm having an extension done, and have to vent the 110mm soil pipe through a lower pitched roof. Can anyone recommend the BEST lead flashing tile for this purpose ?? The tiles are Cedral Thrutone cement slate roof tiles 600x300mm. I don't...

Hi :), Hope someone can help me with this one please as a non plumber ?? I'm having an extension done on my house which means I will have to reroute the 15mm copper central heating pipes to a new bedroom upstairs. Is it ok for the central heating flow and return to go to an equal "T" and...

Hi, Wonder if someone can help me with this one please ?? Has their been a significant increase in cost and availability of materials since the Covid crisis ?? I'm looking to get my wrap round extension done soon, but wondered if it would be worth it at the moment ?? Cheers (y)

Hi :), Once again, as a keen DIY'er, I've tried to do something as simple as brick up a doorway and I've been thwarted by bricks that don't want to lay, and mortar that doesn't want to stick to the bloody bricks, lol !! o_O I'd spent all morning and half the afternoon toothing out the doorway...

Hi all :), Hope someone can help me with this coronavirus lead self isolation question please ?? I need to brick up a doorway to keep my house secure and I've only got three bags of sand and three quarters of a bag of cement, as all the builders merchants shut on the day I was going to buy...