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For flashing chases in brick. Used lead sealant a few times as seems a better choice than mortar. Never been totally happy with the finish tho, wet finger smoothing it tends to start getting it on the brick face unless you’re very careful, so game over. Anyone do this regularly and got any...

I’ve never found any reference to this way of wiring a fan isolator and timer fan (no lights involved, just a switch to control the fan). I can’t see anything fundamentally wrong with it, but please correct me if that’s not the case. Connected to fused 5a feed. All Earths connected where...

I’ve laid a 18mm wbp ply bathroom floor with all board edges meeting on joists. Before tiling I’m going to lay 6mm cement board glued and screwed down to the ply. Am I right in thinking, 1) the backer boards edges don’t need to meet on a joist, and the screw length only needs to be enough to hit...

I’m fitting a concealed shower and can’t work out how this outlet will work with the tanking. I’ve done this a fair bit with bar type shower mixers, and I’m used to sealing the tanking around the 2x 15mm pipes sticking out the wall with bar mixers, but for this one it looks like there’s just...

Worcester greenstar 30i combi, 9 years old. A year ago hot water started going on a 1 minute ish cycle hot-lukewarm. Got a GSE out and plate heat exchanger replaced. All good, until now (a year ish later) when it happened again, totally noticeably for a day or two. Got another GSE booked in for...

Doing my lad’s bathroom at the mo, and the WC is currently piped into grey plastic soil pipe smaller than the usual size, which I am guessing (possibly incorrectly) is likely to be 82mm pipe. It’s pretty inaccessible and boxed in internally, so I’ve not been able to see any markings or measure...

Anyone know what the stud spacing tends to be on paramount (egg box) partition walls? I’m planning on overboarding some, and also foaming/dabbing the new board to the wall, which will only work if there are regular (2x2) studs in them to fix through to. Cheers.

Bit concerned by this at my lad’s place. I’ll get more photos from further back, but it’s a small porch added to the house at some point. Worst bit is in the photo, where the lower courses seem to be sinking, and separating from the upper bit which is presumably fairly well tied in to the house...

Repointing my entire gable end wall as existing mortar seems to be knackered in most places. Not the most interesting task but getting into a flow tackling a couple of meters at a time when I get time. Grinding out to 20mm with a thick diamond mortar rake disc and attached to a Henry hoover for...

I’m repointing the entire gable end wall of my house, but the very top couple of feet triangle is too high for me to reach and use a grinder using any means that I’m comfortable with, and the pointing seems rock solid presumably because it’s protected by the barge soffit overhang. I was...

My blue brick wall I built last year has got various bits like this on it. Anything I can do about it? Tried brushing it off a bit which had zero effect. Ta.

Planning on using my old titan extractor to get as much dust as possible when raking out the joints before repointing. Is there any benefit to not using the filter, or not using a bag? I’m thinking it’s going to kill the filter pretty quick but better that than killing the machine… it’s out in...

I’ve got to repoint the entire gable wall of one end of my house. 60s cavity wall. Any recommendations for raking out? I’ve already got a titan dust extractor which I’m happy to sacrifice if it’s going to kill some of the dust, even if it kills the machine. I’m thinking a cordless 4inch...

Knocked out brick/block pantry walls, low voltage led lighting, plastering, bespoke cupboards and shelving, bit of self levelling and floor tiling. This was a few years ago, just never got round to posting pics. Mrs happy with it. Old walls knocked out. (CU moved by sparky)… Understairs...

Fitted this in 2008, and flush valve is getting stuck to open occasionally. Any idea if this can be detached half way down and the main bit replaced from above, or is it a cistern off job? Thanks.

I want to build a lean-to along the side of my house, with a gate at the front end of it. Open at the back. Width about 1m or so, to cover the gap between me and next door. For a transparent roof, is polycarbonate the way to go nowadays rather than corrugated see through plastic? No idea on a...

I need to dose the system via this ideal system filter fitted a couple of years ago, are the aerosol dosers universal, or do I need to get a specific one? It looks like the same connector for the fernox one I dosed a few months ago. Cheers.

I’m about ready to give my drive a final whack then gravel it. The odd patch of the crusher/MOT is a bit coarse, (ie too many big bits, not enough little bits) due to me moving it around to level it. Can I add something to it like grano dust, or more bagged crusher, to make it lock down a bit...

I’m doing gravel on my drive, within a border of block paving all round it. Got a well prepped and whackerd base, and going to put a geotextile membrane on top of it, stuck down with a load of cement/sbr slurry or whatever, to discourage it from exposing itself through the gravel. Gravels likely...

I want to clad a 9” block retaining wall with these slate slips. Any recommendations on an adhesive which doesn’t mind the wall not being fully dry? It’s not retaining much earth and it’s only a couple of foot high but want to avoid any risk of them failing. Or, is fixing cement/render board...