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Hi folks I have a Duravit shower waste that has a 50mm outlet and I'm struggling to find an appropriate connector to connect it to the waste pipe run. The outlet OD is just shy of 50mm so it fits loosely inside a 50mm waste pipe. It's made from polypropylene though so can't be solvent welded...

Hi folks I am fitting some Karndean to a cloakroom. I have successfully fitted Karndean to a completely square room before, but this room has some diagonal edges, pipes, and is not completely square. To fit the planks that align to the edges I know I need to use a scribe, but googling around a...

Hi all Have googled around for this but not found anything. I am renovating a cloakroom and planning to install 1-2 Aurora Enlite LED dimmable downlighters. Elsewhere in the house I have used these with soft-start dimmers (hit the button, the light fades up to full power over 500ms or so)...

Hi My parents had a kind of custom shed constructed on part of their land. During the construction of the shed they decided to change the purpose of the shed from being just a shed to more of a snug, so they asked the builder (who built it all from timber frame) to install insulation in the...

Hi Last year we had some sycamore trees cut down. I had applied glyphosate to the stumps within a day or two, and about a month later the stumps were ground out. Now, some of the roots which were left in the ground have started suckering. Very soon I'm gonna have another sycamore tree. What's...

Hi all I have a Rothernberger 15mm automatic pipe cutter (one of the ones you clip on and twist). However I noticed that the cut ends of the pipe are very slightly turned inwards (as though the pressure of the cutting wheel has compressed the ends in a bit). Is it standard practice to use a...

Hi All In the process of renovating the WC. Have pulled everything up to find that one of the joists has been hacked in the past and is pretty much rotten through (presumably due to leakage from around the drain). To make things more difficult, the wall in the pic is built off the floorboards...

Hi all In the process of renovating the downstairs toilet. Removed the old pan and pulled up the floorboards to find that the collar on the WC waste has been broken for some time (see pics below). The clay pipe immediately bends off at ~90 degrees under the kitchen floor and outside to an...

Hi I have a table from Laura Ashley which is approx 8 years old. When our daughter was a baby she sat at one end... being a baby she was a messy eater so there was lots of table wiping involved. As you can see from the photo it's wiped the oil/stain off the top too. We are getting a new table...

Hi all I am looking for a plaster vent. Like one of these: http://www.builderdepot.co.uk/plaster-vent-with-fly-screen-225mm-x-75mm.html Everywhere I have looked they don't deliver (or charge silly delivery fee). I'm in Kingston & Croydon (work/home). Anyone know where I can get one? Thanks Ben

I had some joists in my kitchen floor replaced last week due to rot. The skirting board that came off as part of the process was also completely rotten where it met the door. On closer inspection I have noticed that water is coming through the bottom left hand corner (circled in red) when I...

HI I have a SWS Secueroglide roller garage door. It has a control unit that has a couple of wireless fobs for opening/closing, and the control unit can support a tonne of other methods of control (GSM, keypad, etc). Inside the control unit there are 23 terminal block connectors, and I reckon...

Hi all, Quick Q, have googled a bit, not turned up any definitive answers. I had some new rads installed a couple of years ago, and had to remove one of them earlier this year to decorate. On the threaded connections there was some yellow looking gunk that has a very noticeable smell...

Hi all, Bit of an odd one this one. I had external insulation applied earlier this year. This meant that my windows needed over-sills. Trouble is, the windows drain onto the sill via concealed drainage channels and the oversills block the drainage channel. I have had my window company...

Hi folks, I have some old deteriorating flourescent tubes under my kitchen cabinets at the moment that light the work surface. Thinking of replacing them with LED tape. Does anyone have any experience about which size and density (e.g. 3528 vs 5050, 30 LED/m 60LED/m) would work best in...

Hi all, We're considering adding an en-suite but there is no drainage on this side of the house. Our house is on a slope and the existing main sewer connection is on the high part of the slope, so I think it's too high to run a drain from the proposed location (there wouldn't be enough fall)...

Hi All, Slightly odd one... I have recently had my house externally insulated and the gates that were fixed to wooden posts screwed to the walls were removed. I'm not inclined to fix them back to the now insulated walls - want to keep the number of holes in the new skin as small as...

Hi all, I've just had EWI installed. Since the cills on the existing windows were not long enough they have installed overcills that project out past the insulation. Our windows have concealed drainage. The overcills completely block the drainage slot and they have also siliconed this up...

Hi folks, Realise this is a 'how long is a piece of string' question, but am about to remortgage and looking to fix the rate for 3 or 5 years and also borrow a bit more so we can finish up a few things on the house. Need to know how much extra to borrow, hence the Q.... One thing we want...

Hi All, I am having some external insulation work done at the moment. All the rendering is complete and the insulation co. is now fixing the downpipes back to the walls. They have held the sections of pipe together with screws. I think the reason why is that they have not secured the clips...