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Hi I'm planning the refurbishment of my house, and I'm looking to add an ensuite bathroom to an attic bedroom. The soil pipe would need to pass to the right of a couple of floor joists, but in an ideal world I'd like to then kink it to create a bit more space on the floor below. There's nothing...

Hiya I have had a look but can't seem to find an answer for what I need to know. I'm about to create an ensuite, but it's quite a long run to the SVP at the back of the property, so I want to add an AAV (pretty sure BC will want one anyway but just at the planning stage atm). The layout will...

I'm trying to find a solution for replacing a Saniflo in an ensuite bedroom. It's a biggish, late Victorian house, and I need to get the soil pipe from the front to the back of the house. I can run the first part of the pipe in the floor as the joists run the right way, but for the second...

The title says it all really, how acceptable is a change of direction on a long horizontal run of 110mm pipe? I want to create an ensuite in a house I'm working on, but unfortunately it's going to involve getting the soil pipe to the stack at the back of the house. About the only way I can...

Has anyone any experience of shower heat recovery systems such as Showersave/Recoh-vert or Ecodrain? In particular, are they good enough to boost a combi's DHW supply sufficiently to cope with 2 decent showers at once? My thinking is kinda as follows. If an ordinary boiler has a stated output...

We have an arch on a hallway under a staircase, and, while it looks nice, we need to fit a fire door there somehow. The top of the arch is a touch less than a standard door, so we can't square off the arch with a door below it or only very short people would be able to get through. I'm sure a...

Obviously I know it will be hard to give a definitive answer, but I'm asking anyway lol. Shower tray is always slow to start draining, and an inch or so of water always builds up in the tray very quickly when you start to shower. However, after that it keeps pace and the tray never overflows...

I'm looking to add a small mezzanine to a house but the stair configuration I need to use will have a winder box in the corner of the room, then 1 additional tread. This means the first joist is further into the space than I'd like, as effectively the mezzanine is smaller by the width of that...

I posted something similar in the loft and stairs section but unfortunately have had no response so I hope it's OK to try an updated post, with more information here in the general building section. Basically I'm looking for a way to support a small landing at the top of a flight of stairs up...

I've got a Victorian terrace with an original attic room with poor headroom and very steep stairs. I want to separate the house into 2 flats as there is already a large extension on the ground floor. There's a wall across the property just before halfway from front to back, and the joists for...

I've got a Victorian terrace house with an original loft room. I'm intending splitting it into 2 flats as there's a big, ground floor extension and so it should work well. I'd really like to lower the loft floor as headroom isn't great up there, and will be even worse once I upgrade the...

Just wondered if there is a trick of the trade I'm missing here. I need to fit a T (capped with an access cap) to a long run of 40mm pipe. It's an existing run that wouldn't meet current building regs and ultimately will need a pump, but it's my mate's flat and he's not very flush atm. They keep...

To help with the layout of a new, small, ground floor bathroom, I've had to move a doorway to let me best utilise the limited space available. I've taken about a foot off the wall one side of the door, and now need to build a small wall the other side of the door. This wall will be tied into a...

I'm going to be fitting a bax mixer shower over Christmas for my mum, so I thought I'd be organised and I've bought a concealed fixing bracket to make the job easier (I hope). It's basically a metal bar with 2 brass elbows attached, each with a compression joint on one end for the supply coming...

I've described this as a central heating system, purely because the fundamental part of it is an ordinary radiator, but that's about the only thing that's ordinary about it. What I'm looking at doing is having a single radiator (say 1m by 1m), a small tank with an electric element heating it...