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Hello I have added a shaver point in a shower room. I connected it to the lighting circuit over the shower room. Everything works but when the shaver point is in use one or two of the shower room LED downlighters randomly glow. The whole house has LED lamps but this only happens to the bathroom...

Hello Ive got a concrete floor in the garage and its always very dusty. Its basically solid but when I sweep it I get a small pile of soft sand. I assume it wasn't mixed correctly when it went down. Any tips on how best to deal with this. I think its too dusty for floor paint. Thanks

Hello I am getting a floor tiled in my house. It’s 900x900x10 porcelain on a solid concrete floor. It is a big floor at 8m x 7m. 3/4 of it is a new extension with wet UFH. The other 1/4 is the old house with electric mat UFH. I am a bit concerned about expansion and possibly slight movement...

Hello I want to prepare an old concrete slab for floor tiles. It is a bare slab, not a screed. Half of it is 5mm below where I want it to be. The other half is 20mm lower. I was planning to paint all of it with sika rapid dpm. Fix 20mm marmox or similar with flex tile adhesive to the low...

Hello Had my house fully rewired a couple of years ago. The board is in the garage and there is a bedroom above the garage. Most the cables come out the board and through the garage ceiling/bedroom floor. I want to insulate the garage ceiling/bedroom floor but I believe that cables surrounded...

Hello My integral garage ceiling built circa 1970 is boarded with asbestos sheets nailed to the joists. Its about 10sqm. I have had it tested and identified as Chrysotile + Amosite. Nobody seems to want to quote for its removal except for one firm who wanted £3,000. I understand that some...

Hello, Apologies if this is a stupid question but I cannot work out how to use my new heating. Got a Worcester Bosch 27i System boiler, Honeywell ST9400C programmer & DT92E wireless roomstat. All works fine other than when I increase the temp on the wireless stat the heating turns on even...

Hello I am planning to install a washing machine in a downstairs toilet. Room just has WC & basin, no shower or bath. Washing machine will be around 500mm from basin. Was planning to have an unswitched socket behind the machine supplied by a fused spur outside the room. Does this need to be...

Hello Im doing some work to a house that Ive just bought. Having great difficulty refilling the central heating system. Lots of gurgling noises, only gets hot for the first couple of rads etc. Its got a vented central heating system but it doesn't have a vent. ie it has an open gravity...

Hello I have an engineered oak oiled floor. Its a distressed cognac look. Its about 9 months old. I cleaned it with Pledge wood floor cleaner but it was obviously the wrong product as it really dried out the wood. I want to re oil but which is the best oil to use? I have heard...

Hello, Just started laying some oiled distressed engineered oak. Some of the edges have quite a few splinters in them. Is this normal for distressed oak? They look great but not sure if I'm going to be forever getting splinters in my feet. The wood is quite dark so not sure if I rub...

Hello I am about to lay my new floor. Engineered oak flooring. 20mm thick with ply backing. 170mm x 2100mm planks. I've got a concrete floor. Had it professionally levelled and treated with Sika rapid DPM. Am I best to glue the floor down or float it. I have fitted a few floating floors...

I want to float some 15mm engineered oak on a solid concrete floor. I would like to lay an underlay to reduce the chill on the floor. I assume most will use Timbermate excel or similar but surely a 3mm thick underlay will not make much difference ? I am considering using 10mm Alveolit or...

Planning to lay a Kahrs Linnea floor to my lounge/kitchen. It will only be down for about 3 years as I plan to extend the house then so don't want to pay too much for a decent floor now. Does anyone have any experience with Kahrs Linnea? Does it damage easily? Does it look fairly convincing...

Planning to lay a Kahrs Linnea floor to my lounge/kitchen. It will only be down for about 3 years as I plan to extend the house then so don't want to pay too much for a decent floor now. Does anyone have any experience with Kahrs Linnea? Does it damage easily? Does it look fairly convincing...

Hello, Planning to lay an oak floor in the lounge but the house has solid uninsulated concrete floors. The existing laminate is quite cold under foot so want to try and avoid this problem. I dont want to chance underfloor heating and I cannot lay conventional insulation as the raised levels...

Hello, Carrying out some alterations to my heating installation and would like some advice on pipe sizes. Currently have 28mm for the first 2m from the boiler, then everything else is in 22mm apart from the 15mm tails. Boiler is about 5m pipe run away from the HWC/pump etc. How far should...

System - Vented indirect HWC. 2bar twin shower pump. One bathroom. In the middle of moving a HWC and installing a shower pump but have a problem with the surrey flange. The cylinder only has a compression fitting at the hot water outlet - a threaded stem welded to the tank with a nut and...

Hello. About to order an indirect vented hot water cylinder and decided to go for a high recovery type. Not sure which size to get. Only one bathroom but I have a large 1800x800 bath. The CentreCyl looks good but the largest they do is 120 litre which is surely not enough. Range Ultracal are...

Fitted a crosswater exafill to my last bathroom and even with a 2bar pump it took for ever to fill a bath. I reckon one of the reasons is that it only had a 15 mm connection. Can anyone recommend a fast filling exafill. I expect the hansgrohe one is good but would rather not have to fork out...