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Morning folks, I'm just about to remove a Flavel gas fire - had a gas safe engineer come out last week and disconnect/cap the gas supply, so it's now isolated. The flue basically comes out the back of the fire and goes straight up 3.5m through the roof, rain guard etc fitted. My initial plan...

Hey chaps. Hope you are all safe! I own a 1950's(ish) pre-fab concrete house, with a flat roof. Appears to be Jesperson block type Flat roof, last replaced around 15 years ago. During October, a leak developed, with water coming through the joint in the concrete panel ceiling/roof. I went up...

So, my entire 40m2 patio was lifted today and given away FOC ( such a nice guy) There is net work of roots from weeds which i have started removing. my new plan for a garden involved NO weeds. Whats my best option for ensuring that nothing grows on the land again. my brain tells...

several questions, so i'll number them 1. Weed killer. ive lifted the old slabs from a 34m5 area at the front of my house. the weeds were running rife under the slabs. i'd like to kill them. my brain tells me to buy a 25kg bag of sodium chlorate, bit i don't want to look like a...

Hi guys - Anyone got a link for a hotpoint WML540. Had issues over the past few weeks, firstly clothes that didn't smell right. I could only put it down to the wife constantly running low temp, and a build up of gunk. boil washed a box of washing machine cleaner, smell gone. Did a wool...

quickie here guys - fitting a new p-shaped bath, tiles not done yet. Floor is easy, as its cast concrete, so thats sorted. every bath i have ever removed has had some form of wood work round the wall....my bath sits in an alcove avout 1780mm wide, so i have 3cm at each side as a gap. i'll...

anyone got one/used one ? http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/architeckt-linear-174-15912 seems pretty good value for money ?

hi guys quickie here. my house is of the cast concrete type. I believe it to be approx 6 inches thick, with 2 layers of re-bar. I need to cut a 5.5 inch hole in it - for a central heating flue. I'd like to do the work myself, COULD hire a tool, but am told that i'd need some fairly...

hi guys quickie here. my house is of the cast concrete type. I believe it to be approx 6 inches thick, with 2 layers of re-bar. I need to cut a 5.5 inch hole in it - for a central heating flue. I'd like to do the work myself, COULD hire a tool, but am told that i'd need some fairly...

right, i have a problem - i have paramount walls, and i need to fix up them up ready for tiling. do i a: remove the offending boards, and put new ones up OR b: dab+dot new ones on top of the old ones? If its a: will a skim of drywall adhesive on the back of the board be enough to...

Hi guys, just a quickie here. My old walls ( paramount) were well and truely done, so i've been bonding new sheets of 9.5mm plasterboard to them. they are all pretty flat, apart from ONE - My metre long spirit level shows a rise and fall of 6mm across the 1m length - the deepest being at a...

moving on from my last topi - and a topic in the tiling section, i now know i have a few peices of plasterboard to change. I removed the first peie next to the door - which is 2.4m tall, and 30cm wide. i was expecting to find woodwork behind the plasterboard, both vertical and...

Someone decide for me - small combi heating system. Soft water in my area ( if that makes a difference ) So far i'm led to beleive that the fernox is the one to go for.....

Hi guys, quicky here for you experts !!! My bathroom is in the process of being re-done. My better half has insisted that we stretch the budget, and buy a whirlpool bath. I'm not sure how they are wired, but i presume they come with a 5m length of mains cable, terminated with a plug...

doing a full bathroom renovation - just started the stripping of the tiles....Horrible things !!! Now, i do plan to have a tiler re-do most of the walls - but am not sure what kind of surface is acceptable to tile onto. My brain tells me it needs to be dead flat, and fresh, with no plaster...

hi guys - quick question from a diyer !!!! need to plasterboard an airing cuboard ( soon to have a combi fitted) obviosly 3 walls, all 2.4m tall, all .8m wide. one is cast concrete, one is old plasterboard ( OLD+SCABBY) and the other likely to be 2x3 kiln dried timber at 12 inch gaps...

Just after some advice prior to a boiler purchase. model is "compact 29he" i know its not going to be the worlds best boiler at the sub £500 price - but is it good value for money, and will it be (fairly) reliable ? any advice welcome.

Hi guys - looking for a few bits of info - i'll breifly explain I'll be installing my own system shortly - obviously with a corgi/gassafe checkover+gas hook up......Mainly because the quotes i've had are stupid, owing to owning a cast concrete house, but not wanting any pipes showing. I know...

right, Full install from scratch - smallish 3 bedroom house, single bathroom. Cast concrete with insulation Looking at 6 rads+1 for constant flow. Now, after a quote of £4.5k i looked into DIY.....thats the route im taking. Ive been looking at boilers, and specifically which make i...