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Just seen a video of someone using this product...manufacturers claim there's no need to tape board joints when using this. I can't see how that's the case. I understand it might not be necessary for tanking, but surely you'd still want to tape your joints to prevent cracked tiles etc? Anyone...

Tried to upload the images directly here but amazingly being told they are too big despite being <1MB, so here's a link Looking to fix some tile backer to these walls ahead of tiling, as will be using some quite heavy tiles and this is a shower area. Plan currently is to use 6mm HardieBacker...

Hi all, Kicking off our bathroom refit soon and struggling to get a conclusive answer on this. The bathroom is blockwork on all four walls, plastered and painted. I’m planning to overboard with cement board (probably Hardiebacker) but not clear on the best way to go about it. Instructions...

Hi all, Currently planning to rearrange our bedroom a little. I'll be moving the bed 90 degrees to the left and putting some wardrobes in where it currently is. The headboard will be against a chimney breast so I'll be boxing in the alcoves either side for some additional storage. There's...

Hi all, Just returned from the in laws for Christmas Day to a leak in our downstairs bathroom. Looks like the flexi is leaking on the bath tap. We are going away tomorrow and all the shops are shut anyway. Everything under there is hep2o pipe and fittings. All I have in the shed is some jg...

Hi all, I’ve got a new light fitting to put in. It’s been delivered with the fixing in the photo and the instructions imply it’ll work for any type of ceiling. I’m fairly certain this ceiling is lath and plaster as that’s what I have downstairs, but not possible for me to verify as the loft is...

Hi all, I overboarded my timber floor with 6mm ply last weekend, primed and poured some self leveller yesterday. What I’ve ended up with is worse than I had before, with a dip of probably 4mm in the middle of the room. This happens to be the point at which the 2 batches I mixed meet, though I...

Hi all, in need of some advice! I’ve taken up the old carpet and will be laying LVT after I’ve overboarded with some ply. My question is around what I should be doing around the edges of the floorboards where there’s a gap to the wall? When I removed the old skirting there was some sort of...

Hi all, You may have seen my recent posts around suspected lack of mist coat which turned out to be distemper ceilings. However, I do believe the previous owners didn't put a mist coat on when they had the walls skimmed. There's peeling paint in a few places already, and fresh paint I've...

Hi everyone I’m really in need of some help here. I had another thread going talking about the primer on my walls blistering, and then an issue with blistering on the ceiling. @Wayners has been incredibly helpful there but I think I’ve found the root cause, on the ceiling at least. I had some...

Hi all, Yesterday evening I applied a coat of primer in our spare room. All went on fine but wasn’t totally happy with the coverage, the walls have had a fair bit of work done to them and so decided to do a second coat this afternoon. However in some spots the primer has blistered as you can...

Hi all, I've got a bit of a job on my hands fitting architrave. The plaster is proud which is a fairly common problem, and I believe the solution here is to fit some stripwood set back from the frame, have it flush to the plaster and then fit your architrave to that, again set back from the...

Hi all, I’ve just had a 3 column rad delivered. It’s come with 6 brackets with two holes each, but only 6 fixings (expansion bolts). Instructions aren’t offering much clarity on which I should be using. Understand the oval hole will allow some adjustment but why would they not supply enough...

Evening all, I got a bit excited after bleeding this rad the other week and snapped the head off the bleed screw when tightening with the key. Is it possible/relatively simple to just replace the screw? If not, can the whole valve be replaced with the more “modern” kind that you bleed with a...

Morning all, Took on what I thought would be an easy job Saturday, pulling off an old picture rail from the wall. Bit of a mess created for the plasterer, but took me 5x longer thanks to the old nails. Not sure specifically what kind they are, but they look most like what I’d expect to see the...

Hi everyone, Looking to install click LVT in our upstairs bedrooms. I’m aware of the opinions on this but given kids/dog on the horizon we need something durable and the budget doesn’t stretch to a professional glue down install. I’m hoping getting the prep right means an install that will...

Hi all, Wanted to share my experience balancing my heating system. This needed doing as the rad in our living room wasn't heating up at all. The job was complicated somewhat by 4 of our 9 rads not having a lockshield but 2 manual valves. This was 5 before I replaced a leaking valve on our towel...

Hi all, Looking for someone to critique my plan to sort this. Previous owners have had some board put on the wall, I think dot and dabbed, and then likely skimmed, or someone's done a very good tape and joint job. Unfortunately they decided to stop short of the pitched section of the ceiling...

Hi all, Flummoxed on this one. I've had to change a rad valve the other day, and topped the system pressure up this morning. This afternoon I noticed the pressure was about 3 bar and the PRV had been discharging outside. The filling loop had been left connected, the valve on the mains side was...

Hi all, The previous owner of our house has dot and dabbed some board over the wall but not gone all the way up to the ceiling. Our ceiling is flat in the middle but then has an angled section sloping down to the wall, which is where this plasterboard should have met it. They’ve covered the top...