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I've just discovered that during second fixing, fixing skirting boards in specific, my chippie friend, when in a rush, had accidentally drilled a neat hole through my recently boxed-in new plastic soil pipe. Having discovered the hole (soaking plaster was the clue) I've cut the plaster away...

My electrician, during the house rewiring, has made provision for my immersion elements with 2.5mm cable. However, the cylinder is a megaflo and both immersion heaters (an economy 7 setup) are rated 3kW. In the case of both daytime and nighttime supply there shouldn't be anything else on the...

I'm installing a direct hot water cylinder (economy 7 immersion powered), fed by a 200L water tank in the loft (gravity-fed system) into a 3-bedroom house, where typical daily usage would be one bath, and two leisurely pumped power-shower sessions. All of these will be drawing hot water from the...

Hi all, I've had a door liner installed by a chippie into a wonky doorway, and I intend to fill the gap between liner and brickwork with something - can anyone recommend an appropriate material, preferably something that will dampen noise, to use for this? Here's what it looks like...

I've just had the leckies in and they obviously hate cutting chases because the top of plastic capping that they've used is virtually flush with the existing plaster in most places. The depth of the capping below the plaster surface varies from about 0.5mm to about 3mm. How deep does the...

Hi there My house is brick-built, with a layer of external cement render covering the bricks up to a depth of about an inch. During recent bathroom works I've had to push some now-defunct pipes out through the external wall. This has pulled off the external render, which I want to repair...

Having removed the floor coverings I've found that some board parts are missing at edges (where there was boxing), and the floorboards in general are in a varying condition, so I want to replace floorboards in some places, and add floorboards in others. A wide variety of different nails were...

We've just moved out of our house and in with the in-laws while our ground floor was being re-screeded - the previous screed was very uneven, differing by about 25mm from highest point to lowest point. So far so good. We want to lay electric underfloor heating under tiles now, and I gather that...