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Had a shower pump for the last fifteen years which I replaced a year or so ago because it had given up the ghost but the pipework's the same as it's always been. Recently when turning off any hot tap anywhere in the house the shower pump will cycle on for ooh as a guess less than half a...

Not actually a car but quite related. Re-spraying a bike frame for my Grandson, and cleaned and rubbed it down today and then gave it a coat of Car Plan grey primer and then a nice bright red gloss paint and when that was all dry a coat of lacquer. But it's as flat as a pancake, no shine at...

Had an offer to buy our house subject to fitting new UPVC windows. The existing ones are single glazed wood and in good condition, but the buyer wants new ones. I've got good DIY skills and have fitted windows and doors in other properties and a local company will supply me good windows so...

SWMBO finally settled on green tiles for the kitchen to go between the worktops and cabinets, so it's just a strip 500 cms high on two walls. She, oops I mean we chose, three different shades of green, pistachio, mint and dark green and a light beige and they're the small 10cm square tiles...

Fitted a new Hydroflo float valve assembly in my bathroom loo today and inside the feed in pipe was a spiral of plastic which I threw out and subsequently found out acts as a flow restrictor. The cistern runs off mains rather than the cold tank and having left the restrictor off, the cistern...

Installing a complete CH system using a Potterton combi boiler and using copper pipe and having a jolly good time doing it. Great fun. Trying to keep joints to a minimum so bending the pipe to all sorts of weird shapes and it's all coming on well so far. Soldered and tested a few joints and...

Installing a Potterton combi boiler and I need to install a pressure relief pipe. Any reason I can't simply tee this in to the condensate pipe just as they come out of the boiler? It'd save running two pipes next to each other ten feet to the sink drain.

Just starting the install of a gas CH system using a Baxi Heatmax combi boiler. At one of the plumber's merchants I visited, Ridgeons in Cmabridge, they've got their TRV's on the top outlet of the rad and the return on the bottom opposite end. I asked them about it and they said it doesn't...

I need to drill four 110mm holes through the cavity brick walls to install boiler flue, two bathroom vents and a kitchen cooker hood vent. Any ideas as to which type of core bit is best? Prices seem to range from £15 for a TCT one through to £180 for a diamond tipped one. Any recommendations...

I'm sure it's been asked before but I can't find it. Just about to order a Potterton combi boiler and install heating system in my little 3 bed house that I've bought as a BTL. So what's the consensus of opinion on the piping? Plastic or copper and if plastic which system? Thanks

Just bought a small house for rental and the whole place needs decorating. All ceilings and walls need painting so hence the question. Can I use say one of the pump up spray systems that you use on garden fence paint? Would it work with say Dulux brilliant white, so do all the ceilings first...

Rebuilt my shed three years ago and painted it using Cuprinol Total Woodcare Spruce Green colour and really happy with it. Just built a big garage extension to the shed using planed shiplap and now time to paint it. Had half a tin of the old paint left so used that and then went to B&Q for...

Built a fence and garage door from western red cedar and jolly good it looks too, really pleased with it. Just got to "paint" it and it'll be finished. Been trying all sorts of stuff, Sikkens, Ronseal, fence paint, yot varnish, Sadolin etc and finally settled on a Sadolin clear. Ideally looking...

Built a very nice up and over garage door 8ft wide out of Western red cedar over the last few days and I'm really happy with it. Just got the accompanying fence to do then I'll post some pics. Built the door frame out of 75 x 75 uprights and the rest out of 75 x 50 framing all half lapped...

Just started building a new garage door and fence using some very nice Western Red Cedar T&G and for some odd reason happened to read through the instruction book for my Paslode IM65 nail gun. And it says in their FAQ's do not use galvanised nails with cedar. Anyone know why? What will...

Ordered a load of Western Red Cedar last Friday to build a new up and over garage door and a 3 metre fence alongside. £550 quid's worth. Gulp.The idea is that the two look just like a fence and hence no-one, least of all the local council, know that I've got another garage. I've currently got a...

I've got a double garage at the side of my house and ten years or so ago built a workshop extension on the side with a pair of wooden opening doors that look just like the adjoining fence. I didnlt get planning permission so made it blend in so no-one knows it's there. In fact from the outside...