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Hi I am fitting a 'new' (well, brought new some years ago, but only now fitting) close coupled WC Pan and Cistern (Manufacturer: Olympus, Model: Cayman) and am struggling to connect the two. The units came with a foam connecting washer (110mm diameter) and the WC pan has a 100mm diameter...

Is it OK to use bonding plaster to make-good brickwork ? I am having a kitchen fitted by a Wren kitchen fitter and he has removed about 8 bricks from the brickwork that is the left side of a patio door opening. The brickwork is about 2.5-3 bricks width from the outside wall. He has removed...

Hi. Thanks for reading this post. I am just about to tile my bathroom. The new shower cubicle is stud/exterior ply, and the rest of the room is plaster (one wall) and stud/ 12mm plasterboard (3 walls). I am going to use Bal WP1 to tank the shower cubicle, and the technical advisor at Bal has...

I have a standard Steel bath which I brought a long time ago from Homebase and have managed to lose the 'reference adhesive strip' that is supplied to stick on the underside of the bath to help you position the plastic support feet correctly. The bath is 1700mm x 410mm (ex feet) and I was...

I am coming to the end of a long (since April) bathroom project and my next job is to fit the fixed shower outlet/sprayhead. It is a Triton and the (pretty hopeless) instructions say I should fit the elbow fitting flush with the finished tile surface. I am using 9mm marine ply as the backboard...

I am building shower base into a corner of a bathroom that previously had a corner bath. The shower will be contained by a 2500(h) x 1000(w) corner area of brick wall (exterior wall of house), 2500(h) x 1200w interior brick wall and lastly a 2500(h) x 1000(w) stud wall. I am planning on using...

I am just embarking on a bathroom project which will involve moving stud walling, water tank, rerouting plumbing and electrics etc and I want to start by drawing up a set of schematics/plans of the existing house layouts for plumbing, electrics, walls, etc. I can use these for other projects I...