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Hi, Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? As a competent DIY'er I've just tiled round the bath, applied anthracite grout, and now it's silicone time down two corner walls to the bath, and all the way round the bath. As the two corner walls down to the bath are going to be...

Hi :) , I could really do with some professional advice on this one please ?? As a keen and competent DIY'er I'm tiling a three sided shower enclosure with porcelain tiles (300 x 600). Its very, very rare that I have to do any tiling and I'm a perfectionist........but unfortunately don't have...

Hi, Probably been asked before, but no harm in asking again :unsure:. As a competent DIY'er, I've got to drain the oil fired central heating system to plumb four new radiators into the 15mm copper pipe work. I've always used PTFE tape and jointing compound on all my joints, but It's a pain in...

DIY'er, non plasterer here, hoping for some labour saving advice please ?? I've got to fit a shower tray and tile the walls in a bathroom where one of the 90° corners is well out of true. The plaster is proud where the two corners meet in both directions, making fitting the shower tray...

Hi, Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? I'm having an extension done, and have to vent the 110mm soil pipe through a lower pitched roof. Can anyone recommend the BEST lead flashing tile for this purpose ?? The tiles are Cedral Thrutone cement slate roof tiles 600x300mm. I don't...

Hi :), Hope someone can help me with this one please as a non plumber ?? I'm having an extension done on my house which means I will have to reroute the 15mm copper central heating pipes to a new bedroom upstairs. Is it ok for the central heating flow and return to go to an equal "T" and...

Hi, Wonder if someone can help me with this one please ?? Has their been a significant increase in cost and availability of materials since the Covid crisis ?? I'm looking to get my wrap round extension done soon, but wondered if it would be worth it at the moment ?? Cheers (y)

Hi :), Once again, as a keen DIY'er, I've tried to do something as simple as brick up a doorway and I've been thwarted by bricks that don't want to lay, and mortar that doesn't want to stick to the bloody bricks, lol !! o_O I'd spent all morning and half the afternoon toothing out the doorway...

Hi all :), Hope someone can help me with this coronavirus lead self isolation question please ?? I need to brick up a doorway to keep my house secure and I've only got three bags of sand and three quarters of a bag of cement, as all the builders merchants shut on the day I was going to buy...

Hi :), Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? In preparation for a house extension, I'm knocking down an old outhouse /kitchen with a radiator in it. I need to remove the radiator and associated 15mm copper pipework completely from that room. Would it be best to just cut and cap off...

Hi :), Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? In preparation for my new extension, I'm temporarily bricking up this doorway between my dining room and old add-on kitchen. This is so I can knock the old add-on kitchen down (room I was stood in to take pics) and keep the house secure...

Hi :), I’m getting a wrap round extension done shortly and it will be new composite front door, french door, and windows all round. I’ll be going for grey coloured frames. Is there a company that stands out above the rest for good quality at reasonable prices, or are they all the same ?? I’m...

Hi :), Hope someone can help a DIY'er with this one please ?? Can you fit downlights through two layers of plasterboard, i.e. - will the clips clip in properly ?? I will be having a full rewire when I get my house extension sorted next year and I want downlights all the way through. Every...

Hi, Hope someone can help me with this one please ?? I've just bought a Texecom Elite 24 and it is much bigger than my old alarm panel. It won't fit where I have the old panel, so I may need to extend the 4/6 core cable to a more suitable place. Soooo.....to get to the point........is it ok...

Hi :), Hope someone can advise me on this please ?? I'm going to buy a Tex Prem Elite 24 wired panel, 2 x Odyssey X bell boxes, keypad, and a Smartcom communicator, and I'm struggling to find a specialist Texecom engineer in the Cleveland area to fit it. All the wiring is already in from a...

Hi :), Probably been answered a good few times, but can someone please recommend a good quality alarm that will send an alert to my phone if triggered, and can genuinely power two bell boxes ?? All the wiring is already in for the bell boxes, as are the wired PIR's and keypad. I don't want a...

Hi :), Non builder here taking down an internal chimney breast from loft to ground floor level. You know when you're bored in the winter, and see little jobs that need doing, and think yep let's have a go at that ?? Well, that's exactly what I was thinking when I thought about taking this...

Hi :), Hope someone can help with this one please ?? My main circuit breaker tripped today when I switched the mains switch on to the oven. I took the switch off and bypassed it to check if the switch was knackered and it tripped again. I then bypassed the wiring from the switch to the oven...

Hi, Hope someone can help with my aging Worcester Heatslave 15/19 RSO oil combi ?? I noticed a leaky cold water inlet flow switch the other week, so replaced it with a genuine Worcester part............which leaked where the red threaded plastic bit connected to the brass bit (technical...

Hi, Just thought I'd throw this one into the forum, as you guys probably work with insulation materials the most :D The water in my acrylic bath gets cold pretty quickly. The space under the bath is directly against an outside wall. There's no insulation under the bath. Can you...