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Hi all! Had a shower issue for years and years. I put it down to the old shower mixer being, well, old...and lived with the problem knowing I was going to renovate the bathroom at some point. That time has now come and gone, and the new shower mixer/pipework is giving me the same headache. Here...

Hi all, Wonder if I might beg some experience/knowledge on an ongoing issue we have with our shower. It is a pumped system. Pump is in the airing cupboard (see pic) with feeds to the shower going into the loft and dropping down into the bathroom. There are bottle vents at the top of the shower...

Hi all, Wonder if anyone out there can offer some advice regarding connecting up a toilet pan to the existing waste outlet. I pulled out the old pan and waste, and bought a flexible pan connector. I managed to get the end into the wall socket using the existing rubber gasket, but only after a...

Hi all, Wonder if I might beg some advice. Going to be laying new vinyl sheet flooring in my bathroom. Currently it has floorboard-thin hardboard-stick on vinyl tiles. Naturally the thin hardboard (maybe 3mm) has suffered over the years and the floor is a bit up and down. Floorboards are as...

Hi all, Having a small problem (diy) fitting a second hand sink waste popup. Does the push rod just sit in the recess at the end of the push lever? Or does it fit in a little more securely some how? Thanks!

Hi all, Just studded up a corner that will be covered with tile backer board then tiles (total will be approx 25kg/sqm and area is approx 0.5m/sq. Is my studding adequate? (Let's not go as far as 'good' eh!) I have 45 degree batons for the vertical if it is needed? Thanks!

Hi all, Wonder if someone can offer some advice. I am going to be fixing some cement backer boards to my bathroom walls with adhesive and a mechanical fixing. The wall is 3mm finish plaster, 10mm binding plaster, 50mm cinder/breezeblock. I am planning on using Fischer universal ux8 x 40mm...

Hi all, Wondered if I might get some advice on preparing an old bonding(?) coat for a re-skim of finish plaster. Would SBR be suitable as a bonding agent? Here is a pic of the bonding coat I will be going over. Most of the current finish coat has blown and will be coming off...

Hi all, Long story, but I have ended up with two deep chases in a 50mm part-hollow cinder block wall (not load bearing). Want to fill them back in to regain as much of the structural strength as possible. What is best to fill them with? They are approx 30mm deep in places. Mortar? I have some...

Hi all, Wonder if I might beg some expert advice. I am re-doing our bathroom, which involves moving the in-bath shower from one end to the other. To achieve this I started to chase into the exterior wall at the end of the bath. After removing a load of blown bonding plater I revealed that...

Hi chaps/chappettes, Finally having our archaic 30+ years old boiler replaced for a sparkling new Bosch Worcester 18ri. In the interest of being as prepared and knowledgeable as I can be for when the gas safe installer comes to do the deed, I have been looking at potential pitfalls...and I...

Hi chaps/chappettes, Wonder if I could get a bit of knowledge about the best way to rig up an audio amp in my loft. I want to drive a pair of speakers from a small audio amp (12v, 2amp : peak amp output is 2x20W), but only want the amp 'on' when the lights are on. Can I treat it the same...

Hi chaps/chapettes, Just been crawling around in our tiny loft space after the better half noticed water running down a bedroom wall! The offending piece can be seen in the picture below. It is at the top of the drop down to the shower. The pipes come from the shower pump in the airing...

Hi chaps, Need some advice on fixing up my fireplace ready to accept a gas fire. The opening is currently far to large compared to the min/max dimensions the fire manufacturer dictates. The work required is closing the width by 50mm each side and fitting a lintel/bricking up to reduce the...

Hi chaps, Not sure if this should be in this section or building but... I am preping our fireplace so accept a class 1 inset gas fire, obviously I am doing none of the gas work myself. I have had a chimney sweep in to do his thing and he gave me some advice on prepping but want second...

Hi chaps, We had a full house re-wire done around a year ago by a local company registered with the NICEIC. It was supposed to take a week but ended up being 5 with the guy who did it not on the job more than 3 days in any week. At the time this annoyed us but we struggled through and were...

Hello kind folks of the floors, stairs and lofts section! I need some advice. Our kitchen floor is in a bit of a state currently. Half is a concrete base (appears to have dark red colouring), the other half currently has vinyl tiles over most of it, with water based self leveling compound...

Hi all, Having moved into our first home, my partner decided she hated the nasty, badly made, 'falling to pieces' kitchen. So, we set about overhauling the whole room. After months of living like students, we have a lovely new working cooker are approaching the stage where we the extractor...

Hi, We had our whole house re-wired, by a trusted person/company, a few months ago and each time various items plugged into a mains socket (small fridge, large TV, etc) are switched on we get a momentary dim of the lights. I have also noticed that the main fuse into the building, a rather...

Hi, Whilst striping back the paint and architrave from our door linings, interior, I have revealed a gap between the wood lining and wall above. The wall has a steel plate/beam that I guess once sat on the lining. The lining the level and frame pretty square. If I moved the lining to sit...