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Just had my gas fire removed Replacing with an inset electric fire The new fire is a little wider and fair bit lower I chiselled out the bricks left and right. Right went OK and will just need a bit of filler to tidy. On the Left a big chunk of brick came out. What is the best way to fill the...

I was in need of a new bath panel. Old one, I made from cheap pine t&g with boxing in made from mdf window board and contiboard. All of it got a bit water damaged over the years. Was very impressed with Foxhole's solution. https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/diy-bath-panel.541350/#post-4580007...

Any recommended bath shower screens please? Standard bath Spare bathroom. Quite rare that it will get used I am thinking something like this with a fixed panel attached to the wall. £100-£200 price range but willing to stretch a bit for anything recommended. Are fixed or sliding better...

Mid bathroom refurb and the bath will be going back in shortly. There seem to be a variety of tapes and plastic trims that go under the tiles. Any recommended solutions please? I used this in our shower room with shower panels a few years ago and they still look neat...

Bathroom being plastered today. Took the toilet off the wall and the supplied wall screws had disintegrated. Been there 20 odd years to be fair. Are these any good? Worth getting some stainless steel screws? Or better kits available...

Refurbing our spare bathroom. No extractor fan fitted and want to add one. I have run 3 core and earth from the lighting circuit (MF Wago box) to near where the fan will be. Should I be adding a 3 pole isolator? I intend to fit a fan with a timer. The fan in the other bathroom doesn't have an...

Took a false T&G ceiling down and forgot to note where the 3 downlights were. False ceiling is to hide the coombed ceiling at the external wall. Gave pretty good light except over the sink for shaving, etc. All lights quite new. Binned the old R50 spots in the last couple of years. Existing...

Doing a kitchen for my neighbour on a very tight budget. Picked up some used 7mm laminate free. Some of the joints are coming apart. There is some damage to some of the locking mechanisms. No spare boards! I had some 50mm aluminium tape with me and used that face up to tape the the undersides...

Fitting a worktop for a neighbour today as part of fitting a used kitchen on a tight budget. He has picked up some suitable worktop off cuts. Worktop is 22mm square edge. There will be a corner joint. The fact it is square edge, does it need a joining strip? He also got some end trim, so I am...

Putting a used kitchen in for my neighbour on a tight budget. At the point where worktop is needed. 2.2M and 1.6M in L shape. Will be using a metal corner joint. Have been scouring ebay, marketplace, etc but no joy. Travis Perkins have 3000 x 600 x 28mm for £54. Best deal I can see to cover the...

Helping my neighbour replace a kitchen. Cooker point (surface mounted) needs moving. Existing cable is long enough and good access under the floor. Cable is 4 or 6 mm2. Not there at the moment but definitely quite chunky. Could do with a double socket adding in the same area. It would be very...

Have rotten joist due to a leaking pipe and need to replace. I don't think I will be able to fit a full length from wall to wall 1930s suspend floor with brick 'walls' under the floor that the joist rest on. Joist ends in the walls. Joists are 5" x 2" Is it acceptable to put an overlap in as...

Helping my neighbour fit a used kitchen The worktop is quartz composite. Maybe 10mm quartz with a hollow plastic core and PVC base. From this company https://maxtopquartz.co.uk/ Budget is very tight I have one of these I bought for cutting tiles with my 115mm angle grinder. Will it be suitable...

Helping my Neighbour replace his kitchen. Removed some units yesterday and found some damp on the wall and floor. 1930s semi Internal wall that backs onto the chimney breast. There is damp in the chimney. Salts and paper peeling upstairs on the front of the breast. Some bubbling near the...

Roofer changed my soil pipe when doing the gutters some years ago. He chopped the existing pipe a few inches above ground and joined to the new pipe with a coupler. It leaks from the bottom of the coupler. He siliconed around the top joint. Nothing around the bottom. Having a new drive and side...

Fairly new neighbours. We get on pretty well and would like to keep it that way. Ideally would like some ideas before speaking to them. Their house is 90 deg to ours at the end of our fairly small garden. Replaced a fairly scruffy lean to with a decent single storey side extension with pitched...

Looking to renovate the bathroom. Is the timber at the base of the bulkhead structural or just horrible skirting? 1930s semi. Not sure if bulkhead is the right terminology? The bathroom is L shaped due to the stairs. Thanks

Have a little bit of mould inside Noticed the external silicone has come away from the UPVC frame just above where the mould is. Installed well over 20 years ago. Redo with silicone or is it worth using something else like CT1? Any particular product recommended? Happy to spend extra on a...

Replaced an upstairs radiator yesterday. Partially drained the system, modified the pipework, refilled and check for leaks. All good. Run the HW 30 mins in the morning and again in evening. Noticed not much HW yesterday evening and none this morning. Conventional boiler (old Ideal Elan) with...

1930s Semi Went into the loft today. Smelt a bit musty. Some of the rafters have mold on them. Half the roof is just slate. The other is slate with felt (80's extension) Most of the nails through the slate/felt had drips of water on. Some of the felt looks a bit wet. Condensation? I took a...