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Trying to repair a section of damaged concrete at the threshold to my garage. I have already cleared the broken bits back to a solid edge, see pictures below. Is there anything in particular I need to do here? I'm thinking just apply some bonding agent to the existing slab and fill with...

it's a combi boiler

thought that too, and I double checked with the diagrams so make sure. Swapping them around makes things worse - turn the tap on (to a cold setting) and I get a decent flow of hot water, which gradually slows down to a stop, and following through to a hot setting gives me cold water.

I've got a Hudson Reed sequential thermostatic mixer tap and I can't seem to get hot and cold to mix right. With both supplies connected I get only cold water (hot supply doesn't seem to engage at all, even if I reduce the cold flow by half-turning the isolating valve). If I disconnect the cold...

I had the floor in my kitchen replaced with solid wood T&G boards in December of last year. This was installed as a floating floor over a chipboard subfloor. The floor has always been pretty creaky, with some visible movement underfoot in places (especially one area which has no nearby...

Point taken. The bottom half of the wall will be covered with T&G paneling next month, so sounds like that'll be a good place to start - if I make a complete hash of that then it sounds like it's time to get the boys round to do the bit that actually matters. :lol:

Good stuff.. No problems bringing the front of the frame flush with the existing plaster. Happy to give the plaster jobs a go and get a pro in if/when I screw the whole thing up... Just to recap, then - strip plaster back a foot, fix PB with the front flush against what's left, fill the gap...

the boards are secured to a timber frame built into the void, which is fixed to the existing brickwork on all sides. thanks for any advice!

Have boarded over a void in a brick wall, and now I'm trying to finish the surfaces off. The brick wall itself is plastered to about 25mm depth, although there's a big chunk been hacked off that's exposed the brickwork underneath. The back of the board is pretty much level with the brick face...

I suspect the latter, although nothing would surprise me in this place. Turns out that there's a wooden lintel above where the frame used to be. Presumably I want to avoid fixing the top of the frame to that, so am I right in thinking that it's enough to fix the frame to the wall at the...

Just found a sash window frame in the party wall of my bathroom. The other side is bricked up, and the frame had been covered with plasterboard to make the bathroom wall itself. The walls to either side appear to be solid, although I can't see far up enough to see what's above the frame (nor...

Have just spent the weekend tearing up a (ceramic) tiled bathroom floor, which I intend to re-lay with cork tiles. I took the ceramic tiles up betcause the adhesive was crumbling and some of the tiles had come loose. With the tiles up, the (9mm) ply underneath was visibly damp in some areas...