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Hi. I wondered if anyone's had this issue with tanking before? After applying a certain tanking kit featured on a youtube ultimate handyman video, I peeled off the masking tape I'd put along the edge of the bath...to find in places the tanking membrane peeled off the wall too (see below). I...

Hi. I've tiled my kitchen, and unfortunately can't refit the cooker socket as there's not enough slack in the cable to reach the socket properly! Can I simply get some 6mm2 twin and earth and use connector strip inside the knockout box to extend by 10-15cm and make it possible to refit it? If...

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Hi. I recently tiled my kitchen using some Hi gloss black tiles. Being high gloss black, they came with protective chalk/wax lines on them (so when they're packed together in a box they don't get scratched I presume). Now these chalk lines are meant to wash off with water, which they do, but...

Hi. A very simple question for all you Pro Tilers out there. At what stage in the tiling process would you normally remove the protective wax/chalk type material that comes on some wall tiles? Also, I'd be particularly interested in hearing from anyone who's done a City & Guilds tiling course...

Hi. I've just finished installing a load of black gloss kitchen tiles. The tiles were 20x10cm, with 4 lines of protective chalk down them. Where the chalk lines were, once wiped off with warm water, are visible marks that don't seem to come off with anything. I've attached a couple of photo's to...

Hi. I have two options to tile my window ledge, shown in the pics below - either I extend the brick pattern, or lay the tiles perpendicular to the window. Is there a "normal" way to do it? I'll have a piece of chrome trim in front. Thanks

Hi. I've recently found this link explaining changes to part P:- http://www.niceic.com/Uploads/File8952.pdf So my question is regarding work in a kitchen (no longer deemed a special location) involving extending the ring main to add one double socket then running a 3A fused spur off this...

Hi. Please could someone clarify for me? I'm aware if you use Wago connectors they need to be in an enclosure. If you're using them behind for example a fused spur, does the earthed metal back box count as a suitable enclosure? Or do they have to be inside a plastic choc box inside the earthed...

Hi. Title says it all really. I've filled in the handle locations that I'm sure of/are obvious....but what about the corner cupboards and the other base drawerline unit - which sides of the cupboard doors would you go for and why? I can't decide what'll be best practically and/or look the best...

Quick question on wiring. Is it allowed to run a cable as shown by the red line? Ring main is in pink - the idea is to get a socket outlet on the other side of the room as there aren't any in that bit, and it'd be a lot easier than going all the way around the wall (I'm not sure how safe that...

Hi. I've just finished gluing down a reclaimed teak parquet floor and need to decide which circular saw blade to use to chop round the edge for the border. Thing is because it's parquet the cuts are all angled (neither cross cut nor rip)....so what do I use? The cheapy blades I tried (a 24 tooth...

Hi. Has anyone used those folding shower over bath screens? The ones that fold say 4 or 7 times that fold up to one end of the bath when not in use. I would like to use one over my bath, but the issue is the end of the bath isn't up against a wall to fix to. Could I use some kind of clear...

I have a small brick step 1 coarse high built internally next to my back door that I've made out of engineering bricks. I'd like to tile it to finish it, but need to prepare a flat and level top to it first and I'm not sure if it's possible to tile directly onto the side of an engineering brick...

Hi. Is anyone able to recommend a good closed cell, high R-value expanding foam for sealing gaps around window frames (I'm in the UK)? I've googled a fair bit but trying to find actual data on the type of foam/R-values is like trying to draw blood from a stone... Thanks, Tom[/u]

Hi. I have chases in my concrete floor that go down to the damp proof membrane (about 70mm deep) and are about 60mm wide. My plastic radiator pipes are run in these inside slightly larger diameter corrugated pipe, such that the flow and return together take up most of the width of the chase...

I was wondering if it possible to run ordinary convector radiators at a low flow temperature (say 40) simply by oversizing them as necessary to get the right output? Does there come a point at which the difference between the room and the average radiator temperature gets too small for it to...

I'm aware these are required for fire doors, but is the idea that they go behind the whole of the hinge leaf in the frame? i.e. you don't just pack behind the bit in the groove for the intumescent strip, you actually chisel down to the depth of said groove and pack behind the whole of the hinge...

Hi. I'm a little uncertain how to keep the intumescent strip continuous when it comes to the hinges (or do you?). It's an FD30 with a 15mm x 4mm deep groove in the frame that starts 15mm from the edge of the frame (so intumescent will end up bang in the middle of the 44mm door width). However...

Hi. I'm new to plastering and trying to learn/practice on a fake wall before I actually need to do it in a couple of months. I had a couple of questions about how to do it? 1) I've redone all the door linings in my flat, and being built in the 70s the walls were not completely vertical, so in...