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Just a quick one please: Can frame extenders be put UNDER a upvc door cill? Am replacing wooden frame with upvc. Door will open inwards and porch floor slopes. Door will catch on floor before it can open fully. Thanks

I have previously fitted upvc doors and windows. We want to replace existing timber door and sidelights in our porch with upvc french doors with no sidelights. Have started measuring. The opening is not square and uneven. The difference between highest horizontal and lowest horizontal is...

Hi. We are going to replace our rotton porch door and sidelights. Would like to have upvc replacement something like this: Should I be concerned about any wobble because it has a fanlight? Would this be fabricated in one piece? Should the top horizontal of the door frame be...

Has anyone any suggestions for quaility WC and basins? I am looking for a matching WC and pedestal basin in a "traditional" style. Searching online I see that the same items are for sale under different "traditional" names, with no mention of manufacturers' names. I write after returning a...

Just a quick one. I would like to join a 32mm basin waste to a 50mm shower waste pipe using a swept tee. There is a 1:40 fall on the 50mm pipe. One problem I see is that the centres between vertical basin waste and shower trap is only about 575mm. Any advice please? Thanks

I would like to lay laminate flooring. Width is about 3.5m. Against one wall will be a heavy Edwardian dresser. Against the opposite wall is one of those massively heavy, floor-standing cast iron radiators. Would I have problems with expansion / contraction with these heavy items? Thanks

Hi We had new system installed about 18 months ago: Vaillant ecotec plus 624 system boiler, 2x 2 port Honeywell valves (one for hot water and 1 for heating) and an ST 9400C timer. Have just noticed that when I programme the timer, if I set the hot water to come on at a time later than the...

I shall soon be tanking a small shower room: Tilesafe on the floor and Bal WP1 on the walls. In this instance, should I tank the walls first and then do the floor? I assume that I would get a better seal with the the 75mm wall section of tilesafe on top of the Bal coating, rather than...

I'm going to tile the en suite of a new loft extension. One side of the shower area is under the roof rafters. It is currently finished in plasterboard and skim. I know that max tile and adhesive weight for this background is 20kg / m2 if it is vertical. Any idea what max weight would be...

Hi I am look towards replacing lead mains with mdpe that will run under a suspended timber floor. I am familiar with regs regarding ducting and insulation where pipe enters property. The nearest practical place for the interior stop cock is 8 meters away from front of the property. Am I...

We are getting a loft extension soon and some time after a replacement combi boiler, to be located on the ground floor. Current boiler is a Wocester Greenstar 24i, which I see has a head of 2meters. Does this mean that the existing boiler could have a problem pumping central heating to...

A new loft extension is to be built. Combi boiler on ground floor. 1st floor has 22mm pipes teeing off to 15mm for radiators. At least 16ft of pipework needs to be teed off from 22mm pipes on first floor to supply radiator(s) in new loft extension. Should this be 22mm or 15mm? Thank you.

Has anyone an opinion of solvent weld flexible bends for 40mm wastes? I can't seem to find much mention of them. Have been looking at Magicflex Solvent Weld Elbow 1 1/2" from by Wirquinn from Toolstation. Thanks

Hi there I am familiar with regs regarding drilling and notching of joists. The solid upstairs wall if offset from downstairs wall by about 2ft. Upstairs wall wall built parallel to, and above a joist (and on top of floorboards). I need to re-route some central heating pipes - will it...

Hi there I want to instal two 1150mm wide windows on a load bearing wall of a detached garage. I have previously inserted door and fireplace lintels but would like advice on this one please. Load bearing wall is 5.1m long, single skin block with 3 brick pillars. The wall supports half the...

Hi again I have read posts here and elsewhere regarding the insulation of a detached garage. On one hand, it seems ok, after laying dpm, to attach sole plate of stud wall to concrete floor. On the other hand everyone seems to say that suspended floor joists should be 150mm above concrete...

Hi there Any advice would be much appreciated. Friends have downsized to a new property which has a semi-detached garage in the garden, which is not attached to the house. It will never be used to house a car. Intended future use is for much safe storage; possibly to run washing machine...

Hi all Am getting new CU and a kitchen rewire done in a couple of weeks by a NICEIC and Part P registered electrican. The kitchen ring will be replaced from CU. We are getting an electric oven for the first time, so will also have installed a dedicated supply for this. Two sections of...

Hi all We have a 12 year old synthetic sink and am looking to get another (this time in white) for the new kitchen. Have seen two I am interested in: Astracast Mastersink MSK 1.5 CDA AS2 Any comments / suggestions about which to go for? Thanks

New kitchen units are arriving tomorrow, so will soon have to purchase integrated, under counter, fridge and freezer. I understand that the depth of these means that a plug and socket cannot be used behind the appliances. Would there always be enough room for a flex outlet plate behind...