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As per title, new build(ish) double garage floor has a few layers of paint build up over the several years it has been down. Overall it is in good condition, with a few small (but long) surface cracks - nothing I am too worried about. I am also not after 'perfection' only that the 2 part epoxy...

As per title, how do people go about finding them? Esp in the Peak District. We need to fill approx 30 Gabions with Rock, by hand and could do with some help just chucking rocks in. Totally unskilled as most of these will be hidden from view - £100 a day sort of thing. Googling everything I...

Project requires a large portion of the driveway to be underpinned, due to being on the side of a hill with limited depth of soil before you hit rock/large degree of height build up Gabions have been recommended as the most reasonable option - by structural engineer. Need 30 odd of them to...

We are looking to have wet UFH installed under our main bathroom floor. It is a new build house with joists 600mm apart. I was intending on asking the plumber/builder to noggin heavily the floor, pack it out with Kingspan/celotex and then run UFH pipes through the notched noggins. What...

We are renovating an old property up north, that has a cellar and solid brick/concrete floors onto floorboards/joists in part. These are uninsulated, but in good and level condition. We can't dig down due to the cellar and solid concrete/brick floor built on top of it, but we desperately need...

I have a Wetroom tray that was incorrectly fitted, causing it to flex ever so slightly - repeatedly cracking the grout. (It should be on 400mm joists, they installed it on 600mm joists) To rectify it I am taking out the ceiling below it, and bracing it up from beneath. In short, I am...

Does anyone know of one? With hot water, heating, then 2 zones of UFH (kitchen & upstairs bathrooms) I am looking to consolidate all our current 'stats. Hoping to find one that can be accessed via mobile phone/Wifi, is wireless around the house and can controlled all 4 zones separately/timed...

Plumber doesn't really do wiring, which has left me without a working UFH system. No electrician available for the next week+ so plumber is now looking at doing it himself. I want to make sure I have an idea of what goes to where/some ideas to discuss with him to make sure he knows what he is...

We are going for a new bathroom, and I like the idea of a 300mm shower head (along with a hand held one) but my wife isn't convinced about 300mm have enough guts to wash shampoo out etc. As a result I was going to try and hook it up to our current shower to trial it whilst we are still...

I am looking at getting a plumber to fix in a 2 zone wet underfloor heating into my pressured system. Not fussed about individually controlling the zones, I can disable the second via the manifold which is all I need at this stage. The kit comes with the below, but I don't see a zone valve in...

I am looking at re-doing a bathroom, and I imagine pulling off the current plastic sheet tiles will decimate the plasterboard/wall they are on. As a result I am looking at literally cutting this wall in half, and removing the entire board the tiles are fixed to, and replacing it with a water...

I'm in a relative new build, 8 years old ish, and am looking at installing a wet room in our bathroom. Can anyone advise on the least painful way if removing the chipboard tongue & groove boards, and replacing them? Will be installing underfloor heating so will take the whole floor up...

Looking at having wet underfloor heating done in our bathroom, but all the floorboards are tongue & groove, glued down etc. Would it be hugely detrimental to insulate under the floor boards, then lay the pipes in their channeled housings on top of the floorboards, having the floorboards...

For a kitchen & dining room knock through we are looking at wet underfloor heating for it. Approx 30sqm in total. The house is a relative new build (2007 Bryant home) , and when we had the lounge carpets replaced found a concrete/screed(?) floor under it. Now, with wet underfloor...

Long story short, our house is 7 years old, we moved in a few months ago. As per old house, we wanted a wireless programmable thermostat instead of one stuck on the wall. It works fine in the sense hot water turns on/off as desired, heating comes on/off as desired. Last few days though, we...

Long story short, i am in the process of routing network/cat5 cables through the house for a home network. I looked into dropping them down the cavities of the house. From the loft down - drilling through thermalite block - i found a lot of debris within the 'air gap' cavity, and noticed it...

I am in the process of routing cables internally, trying to get cables form the loft down into the lounge. I am dropping the cables down through a hollow upstairs wall, then I am HOPING to drill drill under the skirting board to route the cables from said internal wall into the underfloor of the...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72120595/CameraZOOM-20130623111447503.jpg Is the above anything to worry about? The mortar shows it was built like that, and whilst very rough & crudely done, it has lasted 7 years (2006 built house) and seems to have been planned... The wood cross...

Hi guys, I am at serious panic stations currently. I am in the process of selling my house, and one of the enquiries is over the fact that 'no pipework has been built over'. Now the problem is I am a total prat, and I built my decking 18 months ago and built it over the freaking manhole cover...

Hi guys, Last year I had my central heating system replaced and the warm air unit was torn out. The tiling was done around the unit, not up to it and I am now left with this corner that is bare concrete, compared to the tiled kitchen. Now, I don't have any of the tiles from when the...