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I'm replacing my old toilet and cistern. The flooring is P5 moisture resistant chipboard. The new toilet pan is not as high as the old one and needs to be raised by about 25mm. I'm proposing to screw a piece of P5 chipboard (22mm thick) to the floor and fix the pan on top of it. As an...

I'm going to buy a new bidet and taps with a popup waste. There are loads of taps to choose from and I don't want to buy taps that aren't compatible with the bidet. Are all popup waste taps suitable for any bidet? Thanks Stef

I'm about to install a shower tray in a corner of my bathroom and would welcome any tips and answers to a couple of questions. I'm replacing some uneven floorboards with 22mm P5 chipboard flooring and I'm going to buy a Mira Flight tray 1000mm x 800mm and a bifold door with side panel. The...

I want to clad a timber framed wall underneath a rectangular bay window with pvc shiplap cladding (probably Kestrel). The Kestrel guide says I should waterproof the plywood substrate with a breather membrane. I need a piece approx 3 metres x 1 metre. I’ve looked online and products such as...

I have a wooden framed bay window installed on top of a timber frame. The window is going to be replaced with a pvc window. Could someone please advise me what is the best method/material to use for flashing between the underside of the new window sill and the top of the wooden frame? Thanks Stef

A downstairs room has a rectangular bay window with a flat roof approx. 2.7m x 1m (106 x 40 inches). The roof is covered with lead sheet (one piece). I can't see any holes/cracks where water might be getting in and the flashing on the brickwork looks ok. What I'm thinking of doing is...

Hello All, I hope someone can advise me. I have a wooden (rotten) window frame in an upstairs room which I'm going to replace with a uPVC frame which I've had for some time. The house is 1920's, has no cavity wall and there's about 4 courses of bricks above the window which is about...

I've just removed a layer of Artex from the inside walls of my front door porch. The bricks have been cleaned up, but they are too 'orange' looking. The house was built in the 1920's and theres about 3 square metres of brickwork. Does anyone have any ideas how to age or 'distress' the...

I hope someone out there can help. The photo shows my kitchen gas hob and an xpelair wall mounted fan above it (bottom of fan 870 mm above hob). The kitchen is single storey and has a sloping wooden faced ceiling meeting the wall approx 1150 mm (45") above the hob. The fan isn't very...