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Hi Everyone. I am plumbing my house from scratch. The stack pipe is at one end of the house and I have run a wast pipe horizontaly along the floor upstairs 16 meters, it has a fall of 25mm per meter. There is a toilet connected with a swept t at each end and one in the middle. I meter uphill...

Hi Everyone, I have a woodburner and a 8" single skin s/s flue pipe going all the way up to the top of the house. As the fire in the woodburner cools the flue pipe creeps upwards at the connection between the woodburner and the flue pipe. Once it's cold there is a 1" gap between the top of...

Hi Everyone. I have a 3 story house and want to split into a separate flat for each level. When the tap is on downstairs there is no water upstairs and it all drains back down the pipe. got good pressure upstairs when nothing else is on. I have a 25mm alcathene pipe coming in to the house...

Hi Everyone. I'd like to have something in the garden that i can put near my boundary so I cant hear my neighbor and he cant hear me. They tend to sit next to the fence and have told me they can hear everything we say when were in the house or garden which has made me a bit uncomfortable...

Hi Everyone, I just moved my greenhouse. It's a aluminum and glass with spring clips type. There was loads of putty like bedding material for the glass, i had to remove it all as it was falling apart and ridged. I'm just wondering if I really need to replace the bedding material? or will the...

Hi Everyone, I have made an opening in my wall for vehicle access. Ill be making 2 gates each one 2.5 meters long and 1.7m high out of timber. It's the gate posts that are troubling me. First i thought 4" blocks laid flat and built up to 2m. but then i got nervous about them cracking...

Hi Chaps, About 5 years ago, I did a wet system underfloor heating. I used normal tile adhesive to stick the tiles to the concrete which was above the heating pipes. never had any probs. no tiles have came loose. I've been told i should have used expensive flexible adhesive. Reason i'm asking...

Hi Chums. I'm about to paint my skirtings etc and I,m looking at how yellow the old gloss has gone in only 2 years. I'm tinking ill paint them in vynil silk emulsion. the main reason behind it is it doesent go yellow ( i hope). anybody got any thoughts on this?? Cheers Chums.. all the...

Hi Chummmms. I have walls that are 100mm deep timber uprights with asbestos pannels on the outside. : I,ve taken off the old plasterboard to expose the timbers and the back of the asbestos( . I,ve noticed the asbestos runs with water as the warm air in the room condenses on the freezing cold...

Hi Chaps, I'm hireing a 6 ton digger for doing my driveway. I have 3 power lines that run in the air above my garden. does anybod know who i contact to get the insulation put on them and any idea what the charge is for this??? Also underground cable whair ill be digging, will hire a cat...

Hi Chaps, I want to have the front garden dug out so i can make a drive and build a garage. there is 20m3 of top soil to dig and remove and 45m3 of sub soil that is medium density not clay and no rock. to dig and remove. those volumes include adding a third for increaced volume after...

Hi Chaps. I don't get out much, and I'm just wondering if everyone uses the same method as me for removing screws that have a damaged head or are snapped off flush in wood. I get cordless drill, open chuck a bit bigger than the screw size, place the chuck over the screw shaft, push hard on...

Hi Chums. Many moons ago when I didnt know my proverbial arse from my elbow, a friend helped me with the blockwork to build an extension on my first house. The house had a lot of damp problems and my friend ordered all the materials for me ready for the work. When we started we decided I...

Hi Chaps and Happy New Year. I have a old wood burner i got out of the freeads fer £20. whoooooppeeeeee Bargain. I want a heat exchanger /Back Boiler for it. I have limited financial resources. Any Ideas on anything i can use or adapt that will fit the bill? I have some 3mm thick 100mm...

Hi Chaps. I'm fitting a woodburner in my single story cottage. It had a chimney years ago but it was taken down and slated over. Looking on the planning b/controle portal it looks like im ok to build as long as it's under 1 meter above the highest part of the roof:D. I'm wondering doo i need...

Hi Chaps, My Brother in law who unknown to me suffers delusions, insisted on tilling my floor whilst i was away. " he's a pro and has been doing it for 20 years" have a look at the results. you just wont believe it..... I asked him what went wrong, he said what do you mean, I said it's all...

Hi Everyone. Just spotted a Black n Decker Auto-wrench, it's like a monkey wrench with a battery and switch on the side. press the switch and it quickly closes on the nut or opens. I cant figure out who would buy it. it only takes a fraction of a second to manually close a monkey wrench and...

Hi Everyone. Half my house is made of timber frame with asbestos 8x4 pannels on the outside the joins in the pannels have planks over them to give a cottage with beams effect on the walls. I'm removing the asbestos and replacing with 12mm marine ply. I'm hopeing someone might be able to...

Hi Everyone. I have Rubble stone walls 2 foot thick and have rising damp up to just over a meter, the walls are plastered up inside and in good condition. This is what i was planning to do can any bod in the know tell me if theres any probs with this please. 1 isolate the floorboards...