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I have poor mains water flow rate in my house. I've just renewed all of the internal pipework in 22mm copper leaving only 3m of 1/2in steel pipe between the meter and the new stop tap (22mm full bore lever). Static pressure is about 1.7 bar but the maximum flow rate I can achieve is ~7l/min...

Hi all I'm thinking about the possibility of changing the access to my cellar and could do with some general advice/tips/stern warnings (as appropriate!). Currently access to the cellar is through a normal (upright) door below the stairs. In an effort to get a bit more usable floor space, I'm...

I have really poor flow rate of the cold main in my house but the pressure is OK. Could the cause be the device fitted inline, just after the main stop and drain down taps? What is that thing? I should have hard water but in the 3 years I've lived here I've never needed to descale the...

I live in an early 1900s semi-detatched house where most of the internal walls are lath and plaster. I'm renovating the living room and I'd like to take down one side of the lath and plaster walls, fill with insulation and refit plasterboard (adding studs/noggins/cable channels as needed)...

Should I use plaster or render to finish a wall in an open porch? I plan to tile the lower half of the wall and paint the top half once the finish is dry. Something a bit like this: [/img]

Hello all I'm planning to decorate a room in my house soon and I'd like to move and add a few sockets/switches when I do so. The whole house is in dire need of a rewire (fusewire CU, no RCD, spurs EVERYWHERE) and I plan to have that work done in the middle of next year but I'd really like to...

Hi I'm helping a friend decorate the bathroom of her apartment. We've come across this: It looks like the pipe from the toilet is too small for the soil pipe in the wall and whoever fitted the bathroom used some kind of putty to fill the gap. The putty is still plyable and is actually...

Hi I hope this is the right place to ask. I have a question about something that's been bugging me for a while... Could anyone tell me what is the point of the plastic pipe in the arrangement below? It's on the ground floor of a block of flats... Some kind of vent maybe...