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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...

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...

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 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...

All the rads in our place are what I would call standard panel rads found in most homes. None of them have any fins on the back to boost surface area. Looking around, there are lots of differnt radiator types, different brands, different materials. Aluminium rads are getting some attention...

The shower that was in the house when we bought it is leaking water where the cartridge (4) meets the "stabilizer valve assembly" (7) The circuit is only rated to 32a so its a limp shower to say the least, but in 3 months we are planning on doing the bathroom anyway and so will get...

one of the windows in my house has a noticable gap between the window metal frame for the window and the metal frame in the wall. where the window would usually pull tight againts the seal it leaves a gap of probably 5mm letting in cold air and noise. Am I right in thinking that I just need...

I'm in th emiddle of doing the place up for us to move into and have noticed that if the heating is set to off but the hot water is set to on, we get nothing but cold water. If the heating is on and the hot water is on OR off we got hot water. The boiler is a Potterton Suprima 50L and in the...

I'm just about to start getting the kitchen sorted and picked up a load of waste parts in preperation. I picked up 2 HEPvO wastes with the plan of using one to come from the sink down to the outgoing pipe and another for the dishwaster and washing machine. Now i picked up 2 spigot Ts that...

I need to run some new sockets as well as add a TV socket and network outlet in the living room. I have read on here that LV cable needs to be 50mm from data cable unless it is run in conduit/trunking/etc but does standard plastic oval tube count? If not I'll have to have a bit of a think!

just trying to work out the wiring for my 2 way lighting for my house. There is a double switch upstairs and a double upstairs. From these i want to turn the upstairs light or the downstairs light on from either switch. Please excuse any wrong colours!

Hi guys, On Wednesday a teams of folks arrived to move my boiler. They arrived at 8:30 and were gone by 13:00 with everything working happy and fine. Today a guy came to install a new water tank and move the CH expansion. 6.5 hours later (!) he leaves and I have no central heating. he bled...

The wife has changed her mind on flooring in the kitchen :roll: It was going to be black tiles but now she wants a wooden floor. Were it up to her then it'd be £10 sqm from B&Q but i prefer to try and do things properly so that it'll last. I have been looking at engineered oak from a popular...

Welcome to our journey of turning our first house into a home. Over the coming months I'll try and keep this updated with the details of everything that is going on with a load of pics. I find reading other peoples projects interesting so I thought I'd share my own. Background: My wife and I...

I'll be laying 300x300mm polished porcelain tiles tirectly onto the tiled floor in my kitchen. These existing tiles are laid onto the concrete floor and are throughout the ground floor of the house (no idea why, that's the 1950's for you) and dont want to budge easily and i'm happy to leave them...

Having just gotten into my new loft for the first time i found this old disused coal boiler stack up there. The flue within no longer goes through the roof and the stack itself stops just short of the roof. Is there any reason i shouldnt be able to just remove it brick by brick myself...

Managed to get into the loft for the first time today of our first house (only had keys 2 days!). I was expecting some great vat of water but instead found this rusting old thing! Glad we overbudgeted for the rest of the work so I have some left for a new tank now.