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Hi, would really appreciate your advice. We currently have a soil pipe running up in the corner of bathroom. There is a pipe coming out one side for the toilet waste and a pipe coming out the other side for the waste from the sink/bath. I have attached a picture. We are replacing the bath with a...

Hello. Could I get some advice from professionals on here who install patios please. My friend had a new patio installed around a year ago. There was originally a concrete area that had a small drain located on the line with the grass and there was never any problems with surface water. The...

just removed boxing from downstairs cloakroom ceiling that was covering old heating duct and found hole in ceiling. Looks like they installed the light and then moved it when the house was built. You can see that the outer sheath of the cable has been removed and, having looked under the...

Hello. I would really appreciate any ideas on how to fill the holes left in our concrete floors when the old warm air heating was removed. Below the vents is the metal ductwork running back to the old boiler. We have seven of these holes to fill so that new carpet can be laid and I am not too...

Hi, we recently used Zinser Gardz at my daughters house to seal plasterboard walls after removing the wallpaper. We painted over the Gardz and the end result was really good. I wondered if anybody knows if Zinser Gardz can be used on brick plastered walls. It says for dry lining on the tin. Or...

Hello, please could I ask any plumbers out there for some advice. I want to change the toilet in our downstairs cloakroom to a new close coupled one (looking at Burlington). The problem is we have a pipe coming in to the side of the existing pan connector. This runs around the wall to the sink...

We have just had a new central heating system installed to replace the old warm air and wondered if anybody could offer some advice please. It has a Worcester Bosch 8000 Life combi boiler, Easy smart controller and 12 radiators. My question is about the temperature that the radiator water is set...

Hi. We are about to remove a warm air unit and replace it with boiler and radiators. Please see the pics. The two side walls are fine but the back wall is covered in what looks like concrete with the odd brick showing through in places and a hole that needs bricking up/covering. We need to make...

So we finally sorted out replacing warm air with combi and radiators and have a couple of quotes. We have one final thing to sort out and would appreciate your views please. We have a living room measuring approximately 19" x 12 with a large window on the long wall (9.5" wide). One company has...

Hi, Could I ask for some advice please... We have a heating company about to replace warm air heating system with a combi boiler and radiators. They have said they they will completely remove the old flu which runs from the warm air boiler downstairs, through the floor to upstairs, up the...

Hi, We are about to have the warm air heating system replaced with a brand new wet system and I wondered if somebody might be able to answer a couple of questions please. We have a typical style 4 bed detached 70’s house with big windows and concrete downstairs floors. We have one bathroom, a...

Hi, my daughter recently moved to a new home and has started decorating. Upon removing the wallpaper in the lounge, she found what I think are possibly old fixings in the wall. This is a timber frame house which I am guessing has plasterboard clad walls. I am used to the older brick wall and...

I wonder if somebody could help me please. I purchased some super fresco paintable wallpaper from B&Q along with some Dulux Brilliant White Silik Emulsion paint. I last used this type of paper and paint around 10 years ago, I put the paper on the wall, painted it with silk emulsion, and it was...

Hi, I wonder if somebody could help me please. We have just removed the wallpaper from a room with the intention of painting it and found a bricked up hole above the door. It looks like somebody has just used cement but we need to get this smooth so that we can paint the room. Is there a product...

Hi, an electrician chiselled out the wall to fix the cable running to a light switch but never came back to fill in the hole. I wonder of somebody could please tell me how this should be repaired as we now want to decorate and paint the wall. Is there a specific product that electricians use to...

Hi, I would be really grateful for some advice please. My daughter has just purchased a timber framed house and wants to put some boards down in the loft. I have had a look and it looks like the the beams are part of the triangular roof timbers and are are covered in some eighteen inches of...

Would really appreciate some advice please. My mother has had quotes to replace her boiler, one from British Gas and the other from an independent. This is a small end of terrace 2 up 2 down with 2 radiators downstairs and 3 radiators upstairs. The independent has quoted Valiant EcoTEC Plus...

Hi, Would really appreciate some advice please...Boiler: Thorn Apollo 15/30B My mother called BG in yesterday because she could see a bright orange glow above the usual blue pilot light. It looked like a thin piece of metal sticking in to the flame that was very hot and glowing orange. BG...

Hi, last night the RCD started tripping and I found that it was due to the main cooker switch (the big red switch with the mains socket on the side). If I leave the cooker switch off then the RCD resets and is happy. Even with the MCB turned off, the RCD still trips when the big red switch...

I really would appreciate some advice. My daughter has just moved to a new home and we have removed the old fire surround and gas fire (gas supply capped off by professional heating engineer). The flue is about the size of a brick and appears to run up the inside of the wall to vent in the roof...