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What's the best way to prep a plastered breezeblock wall for tiling in a shower enclosure? One of the walls of this enclosure will be a new false wall for various reasons, but the other is part of a large external cavity wall which is already plastered, though I've scraped off a lot of the...

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. Our boiler began losing pressure recently and it turned out it was venting through the PRV. Brand new PRV was fitted but we're still losing pressure. I noticed it was still venting from the PRV again even though the boiler was only showing 2 bar of...

I've tried researching this, but I'm struggling to understand what bits of regs are relevant to this particular case. Our house has an open vestibule in front of the main front door (see pic of similar property). I want to put a UPVC door in the opening to make more of a porch from it. The door...

Hi all, About to start a bathroom and it occurred to me that anything that might need to run under the floor for future projects is best done now before it's all tiled. We don't have an EV yet but it's inevitable we will do at some point. We have an attached garage at the other side of the...

Hi all, We had a company around to repoint 6 valleys on our roof. I went up the ladders to inspect it 3 days later and it is really shoddy work - gutters full of mortar, pointing missing in some places, already breaking away in others, slipped tiles that have been pointed in without reseating...

Hi, I'm looking for a recommendation for a whole house mains pump. It looks like Salamander are the leading brand but I've also read quite a lot of reviews of them failing early or becoming noisy. Does anyone have a recommended make/model that they tend to use? Many Thanks

Hi, I've just done the first coat on a rendered wall with Sandtext textured masonry paint. The colour is perfect - exactly the shade i was looking for, but the texture is really really fine. Is there anything i can add to the paint for the second coat to give it a coarser texture? I don't...

Hi there, I've just finished the first layer of render on our garage with a 4:1 ratio of sand to cement with a liquid plasticiser. I used wickes sharp sand for this layer since it said this was suitable for external rendering on the sacks. I'm now doing the second layer, and want a...

Hi there, I have bought some torch-on felt and torch-on underlay for my garage. It is approx 50 square meters in area. Approximatly how much gas am I going to need to order to do both layers? Many Thanks :)

Hi there, I've just about completed my garage construction, and finally have a roof on. The garage is a large double and the roof has an apex and a slope of approximatly 12degrees on either side. Its currently unfelted as I've just finished fitting all the OSBs on to the timber joists. The...