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Needless to say it started getting a bit busy so I just didn't have time to update as I went along! Most says I was starting at 8 as soon as the wife left for work and not downing tools until 7. One night I didn't stop until about 10. Here is the nearly finished bathroom. Its taken longer...

First thing this morning I started getting everything moved in the back bedroom so that I could get to the hot water pipe to cut in to make a cleaner route for the Trevi Boost. After shifting everything and getting the boards up I fond that the cold water pipe running to the loft runs alongside...

We got our sliding wardrobe from SpaceSlide which is now apparently working with screwfix. We were very happy with the end result and it was a doddle to fit. We put ours along the full wall in our bedroom which has a chimney breast in it. It was about 4m long and what I did was get 4 end...

Final few bits have arrived at last, the chrome click wastes from Ebay and my tiling tools. I'd bought a 5kg bag of sand & cement from Build Centre for just under a fiver last week as I need to fill a hole with a couple of bricks. Then I noticed that I needed to repair some blown plaster...

Thank you both, that might explain why I couldn't find an appropriate sized fibre washer.

Is the entire loft boarded or just a portion? I recently boarded out about 1/3 of our loft space and the rest is just insulation. I didn't do it all as we didn't need the space and having too much just encourages the long term storage of crap.

In the upcoming bathroom renovation I need to use a bunch of male irons, 2 for the venturi shower and then 2 each for the 3/4 swing check valves. Since the connections will be thread on thread only, am I supposed to use a bunch of PTFE or something to seal it or pick up a fibre washer? I...

I've spent a good few hours today getting the old paint off of 3 of the walls which was under the wood panelling. A bit of hot water on a sponge made a lot of it come of fairly easily with a wide blade paint/paper stripper. The 3 walls I did were the key ones that NEED to be tiled as soon as...

We are just about to do ours and I was in your situation a week or so ago when I started pricing up. Originally I'd had a look around the local BathStore and pretty much priced everything up from there. In the end we got nothing from them party down to cost and party down to hearing a few too...

A little while back the wife and I bought our first house and set about making it a home as detailed in the link. //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=203825&start=0 With a functioning if somewhat ghastly bathroom we decided to spend our time and money working on the rest of the house...

We've got some vinyl from carpet right for the bathroom. It's 3.7mm thick and has a weight of 9000 according to the site. Since it's going onto floorboards I know i need to put down some ply first but I've seen conflicting opinions on whether to glue the vinyl down or tape just 2 sides of it...

I've dropped 2k on a bathroom, 35 on a few tiling bits that i'll have for the future is nowt. And I like proper tools ;) I'm only 26 so they'll get plenty of use over the years! Thanks once more for your help. And thanks for taking the time.

Thanks once more Richard. I've picked up a Rubi 10mm U notch trowel, a marshalltown grouting float and a whisk for the adhesive/grout.

Hi Richard, thanks for the reply. The tiles weigh 1.2kg each and are 10 per sq m. That leaves me with some headroom on the weight front. I was sold some cement based powder adhesive by tilebase (where I got the tiles) which is weber.set plus. I've only ever really seen Bal bounced when...

In a week or so I'll be doing our bathroom and wifey wanted 16x10" tiles with 24x3" border. Just checking which notch depth I should be going for. Some walls are skimmed others are just render. The border tile is a couple of mm thicker than the main tile. Since its smaller am I going to...

I've got a bathroom to do in about 10 days time and a few connections need to be done under the floorboards in a room that isn't exactly easy to get to often. I've actually already ordered the compression parts to do it all like that on the basis that soldering was going to be far too...

I'm replacing all of the rad valves in our place but one of the rads has a straight valve and then a 90 degree LS. I can find straight valve/ls sets, and angled valve/ls sets but I cant find an angled LS on its own anywhere. Anyone have an idea or even a suggestion of one to match?

We'll I've just done a flow rate test @ 18:00. At bath tap level (bathroom is upstairs) I filled a 12 litre bucket right to overflowing in 40 seconds with cold and 50 seconds with hot. That's assuming that bucket is 12 litres to the brim instead of 12 litres to near the top. So that puts me...

We are finally getting around to replacing the bathroom and I've been looking at the Trevi Boost as the option for the shower. The hot tank is on the same floor, the cold tank is in the loft (base approx 0.7-1m above the current shower head). The current bath plumbing is 22mm from the tank to...

Having designed and fitted our Ikea kitchen about 15 months ago i have to disagree. It was really easy. The only down side was cutting the worktops with the router/jig because they are non standard depth which the jig doesnt cater for.. Apart from that it all went in like a dream. I've never...