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The photo shows the main junction of pipe work in our property and all my questions centre around the steel cold water feed pipe and its unions. The water comes from the meter, under another room about 4m run from the meter and emerges in this room behind this panelling. The water then passes as...

Our 20mm marble hearth stone has cracked in a fairly central position. The crack is all the way through, but weirdly is wide at the front and closed near the fire. To properly fix this will require re-painting the 7x3m wall [we just had painted] plastering the damage we do finding the fixings...

I have asked my [friendly] electrician to fit a dimmable LED ballast with dimmable LED T8 tubes to two T8 batons. His time is money and I prefer to pay him for doing the practical stuff I need as opposed to all the theory and questions which I prefer to understand myself. I am just wondering if...

I am looking for any gotchas or obvious points I might have overlooked in the following plan: I’ve never done floor digging and repairing before, or burying pipes – but done plenty of DIY and plumbing so reasonably confident. I am replacing a concrete buried 15mm copper pipe + compression...

I am looking for any gotchas or obvious points I might have overlooked in the following plan: I’ve never done floor digging and repairing before, or burying pipes – but done plenty of DIY and plumbing so reasonably confident. I am replacing a concrete buried 15mm copper pipe + compression...

This may be time for a new machine I am not sure. . . My 12 year old trusty WFO2840 stopped heating water a year or so back and I replaced the heating element in the bottom with a genuine Bosh item. It worked for a few days without a problem and then started to wash cold again. The new...

I have two taps that do this and after 12 years I am fed up with taking them apart and putting them back together - what the heck is the cause ?? The two taps are on gravity fed HW - so they get opened all the way on each use, to get the required flow. Since our cold water pressure is high...

Hi forum, I am after something so do the following. In my living room I will exclusively use lighting by lamps. Having just re-plastered, I really don't want to chase it all out to wire up what I am after. I realise I have overlooked this in planning somewhat. I want to be able to activate...

I have spent a massive amount of time and energy, (4 months) painstakingly installing a solid oak strip floor. Which is as we speak curing the top coat of Polyx. In a few days I'll buff and wax it. (Just to make it leathal you understand). I am really keen to cover parts of it up while the...

Hi folks, I have just completed sanding my new oak floor with a Trio. The finish is superlative I have to say! I have wiped the whole thing with a soft old 'T' shirt which seems to have pulled out most of the 120 grade dust that the vacuum system on the sander did not catch... But...

Anyone know of a company (anywhere to start with) that does a compressed air driven nailer? Ta.

I am sure there is a BS table for this operation I need to find - but I can't find it... :) I have a 3.7m span floor at 320mm centers, spanned with 50 X 175 timber. It's already over engineered. I just need to level the thing out since it's crowned as the walls dropped over the years and...

Hi people, I plan to lay a solid floor into two adjoining rooms. They are only connected by a doorway. The rear of the house appears to have sunk by about 1" relative to the front and about 1" at the sides relative to itself. In other words there is a crown in the rear floor - or more of a...

Hi - I have a small section of floor that is screed. small = 1400 X 340 mm. The front of the screed is 23mm below the desired finish hight. The screed is not level and falls away evenly to a hight at the rear of 35mm below the desired finish hight. I wonder what the best way to affix a...

I bought a moisture meter to test the timber joist and board subfloor. It seems to mostly be at 12%. However each board that is near an exterior wall has the first 6" with higher moisture. This first 6" is around 20% moisture. // I had planned to lay 6mm ply over the existing 22mm...

I have a picture of a problem where my subfloor is not level. I want to lay a new oak floor perpendicular to the old floor. The floor to the right of the concrete is 10mm higher than the floor to the left of the concrete. This will create a weakness in the boards joining at that point. The...

Woe is me... I have made a mistake, hands up I have learnt a hard lesson here. The plastering job I have received is certainly not what I expected or asked for. I need someone to put it right. How on earth do I go about finding someone with enough experience, compentance and...

Hi chaps, As the title suggests I was wondering what I need to do to ensure that the chap has a clean run at the job on Monday... I have removed architrave and skirting. I have placed the electric faceplates in plastic bags and taped them up He did the ceilings a few months ago and...

I want to install an oak floor in the ground floor of my terrace house. It's a 2 up 2 down style thing. The floor area is 40m squared. The existing floor is the original joist and board arrangement. There is a small area or wood worm in one board. The boards are worn commensurate with their 100...

I need to build a low loss header – the primary circuit is 22mm and I have a spare 15/50 to power the new (shorter) primary circuit. My question is about the wiring of the secondary pump into the Y plan distribution board. I want to check out that it’s acceptable to wire the 15/50 pump in...