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The hose connecting my toilet to the mains supply was leaking last week so i've isolated it and looking to replace the hose. I've attached images of each end. It looks to me like 1/2BSP, male one end and female the other. Can someone confirm and perhaps give me the proper name for it so I can...

I've finished a loft conversion a year or so ago which included a shower room. It works fine but I feel it lacks pressure. If I turn the flow up to max, it doesn't get overly hot and still isn't as strong a flow as i'd like. I have a combi boiler in the kitchen providing all the hot water...

Possibly posting in the wrong forum so sorry about that. It's getting pretty warm the last couple of weeks so I've bought a portable aircon unit which does a good job of cooling my bedroom before I go to bed. It has a vent pipe which I've so far had poked out of an open window. This isn't...

just finished my wetroom but may have made a mistake. the whole room is fully tanked with a bal wp1 kit on all walls and an impey water guard kit (which, for the record is great) on the floor. the mistake(?) is that i've grouted on the internal corners of the shower and the join between...

Hi, Im installing a wetroom and would like some advice on which adhesive/grout i should use. walls will be knauf aquapanel and tanked with bal wp1. floor is wbp ply tanked with an impey kit. i've heard bal adhesives and grout are good but their website seems to suggest that more than...

Hi, I'm having a small wet room installed in my loft (new conversion) and am choosing all the components for the shower area. the walls are 12.5mm plasterboard, the floors are 22mm thick on wooden joists. My plan currently is to use a Impey shower former (22mm will sit flush with...

Hi I've gone and done what I always said I never would and that is to get a patio laid in my garden without first running appropriate cables... I know, I know, I've since come to terms with it. Anyway, I've now got a nice new shed which has no power going to it and I'm looking for a...

Hi there, Im about to wall mount a tv in my bedroom and would like to hide all wires in the wall. The power socket and aerial point are directly below where the tv will be mounted. The wall is a stud wall. I'd like to take a spur off the socket below, run the cable inside the wall and...

HI, The extractor fan in my bathroom stopped working ages ago, and i removed it thinking id get a new one... that was years ago and i've forgotten the make/model so I can't simply buy the same one again. it was a 240v in-line fan (4") and had a timer on it. it looked similar to this one...

Hi I need to fix a shower riser kit (the sliding rail thing the shower head fixes to) in my shower cubicle which has been freshly tiled. the position I want it in is not infront of a joist so I cannot screw into anything solid. I have cavity (stud work) walls. i'm trying to think if the...

I'm getting a tiler in this week to finish off my en-suite shower. I tanked the whole cubicle with BAL WP1 tanking kit, but didn't realise the walls were not parallel. I had to skim some of the cubicle wall to 'build it up' to square. This has left me with a cubicle which is 60% WP1 and...

Hi Im currently doing renovation work in my ensuite and am thinking I might as well put in some power for a shave point and possibly a lit mirror. As far as 'zones' in the room go - it will meet regs but i have a few qeustions... im thinking of chasing cable into wall, up into loft and...

I've replaced my shower tray in my ensuite and although i used the same size tray, the waste pipe doesn't marry up to the new trap. The original waste pipe is 42mm pipe with glued joints and as such, I cannot move it over to point at the new trap. I ordered a flexible waste pipe to solve...

I have a shower cubical which is freshly plastered ready for tiling and shower door installation. however, somewhere down the line of my renovation the cubical has become slightly narrower than i had originally thought meaning the shower door which I've bought only just fits the gap. If was...

Hi, thought I'd share my progress with you. I'm a complete novice, never done anything like this before so go easy if you see I've made mistakes. I wanted to do as much of the work myself as I could mainly because I enjoy stuff like that but also to learn. I've been blogging my progress for...

I'm in the middle of re-building a shower in my en suite. I've had to replace all the plasterboard and plan to tank using BAL tanking kit but i have 2 questions... a) I cut two hole in one of the sheets of plasterboard in order to accommodate the water pipes. Because of the layout or...

Hello there, I'm in the process of re-doing a shower in my en suite after a rather nasty leak. I'm replacing some stud work and plasterboard. I originally wanted to go with Knauf Aquapanel and then tank with Bal tanking kit, but Travis Perkins didn't have any Aquapanel in when i went, and in...