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I have removed some bricks from outside of chimney in order to fit a soot door for sweeping access. The chimney has double walls with a cavity and I am not sure what to do about the cavity when fitting the soot door. Is there a frame that can be used or do I need to line the cavity somehow? Thanks

I'm building a base for 4x3m log cabin (fancy shed) and intend to sit it on 75mm-100mm of concrete which will be poured into a form which is raised above hardcore using stakes. The hardcore is old bricks & concrete which I have sledge-hammered down to about 5-7cm pieces. I want to put a DPM...

At the back of my Miele fridge freezer, there is a black tar-like sticky substance that appears to be leaking from the metal pipes. What is it and is it a real issue? Thanks

The more I look, the more I find. Just found this old junction box which has 10 lighting cables going to it. Inside, the wire cores are just twisted together and capped with the white plastic screws. Doesn't look good practice to me by today's standards. Should I replace it and what should I...

Trying to identify a ring main before extending it to fit new sockets in a bedroom. Found what looks like a ring main as it has two cables going to one socket, however when I measure across the two brown wires that I have disconnected from the socket, I get 600 ohms instead of a short. I removed...

Can a double socket be put close to a radiator in a bedroom, or does it need to be a certain distance away? Thanks

Trying to locate a place to purchase an offset pan connector. The soil pipe is 30mm lower than the pan outlet. Now, the cistern is a high level type( which I now have installed on a side-wall thanks to the help from people on this forum), so I have some tolerance on how near/ far the pan can...

I have mounted a high-level cistern on a side wall and now need to connect a flushpipe. The new cistern comes with a nice two-piece chrome pipe kit, which would be ideal if I wanted the cistern back mounted, but I can't fit it this way because of a window behind the toilet. I have looked at...

I have a 7mm rawl plug which is loose. I drilled a 7mm hole in conrete block, but the screw just causes the plug to spin. I have removed the wall plug and cleaned the hole, but the hole is now slightly bigger. I still need to put a fixing in the same place, as all the other fixings are fitted...

I want to fit a high level ceramic cistern, but I am not sure what type of fixings to use. The wall is an internal wall of concrete block and the cistern has two small fixing holes through the rear. The cistern also has two brackets that fit underneath, but are for decorative purpose only...