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I'm with United Utilities, unmetered and council band D - 3 bed semi. My annual water bill is almost 800 quid a year...... UU state the average is about 450 give or take. Does 800 quid seem right? Fresh water is Fixed at £207 x 1.329 and standing charge is 80 quid. Waste water is Fixed at...

I have a square shaped conservatory. The bottom third is a dwarf cavity wall and the then it has a standard upvc frame on top and a solid insulated roof. Despite the roof, it's still too cold in the winter. Would it be possible to remove the upvc frame and construct a wooden frame in its...

My next door neighbour has purchased an 18 foot caravan and has placed it on her driveway - I'm not particularly bothered by it. However, she has just allowed her friend to move into it for an indefinite period of time. The van is about 4 feet from the corner of my house. Do u think its...

I've had a normal window opening increased in size down to the floor. This has meant I need to make good the lower half. See pics. Obviously needs boaeding, beading and blending. Woukd you bead from the floor to the lintel, ie over the top of the existing bead and then plaster the entire...

What's the best way to set this flooring out? I'm about to lay some Polyflor LVT 9x3 parquet. I'm having a border. When setting out, would it be best to run the flooring parallel to longest wall? It runs down hallway, into kitchen, then turns 90 degrees into kitchen. I'm thinking parallel to...

A family member has just moved into a newly renovated house. The entire gaff has been renovated- including an en suite. The electric shower trips the mcb after a few minutes of being on. Set up as follows: . Mira Sport Max 10.8 kW shower. . Seperate shower CU with 50 amp MCB . 10mm cable -...

I am building an en suite and have taken a 32mm waste from basin, 40mm from shower and 110 from toilet. All three pipes are now sticking out the wall and I need to run them across to the main stack. I've temporarily connected the toilet - as u can see. The basin waste and shower waste are at...

I have a 0.85kw storage heater that I want to fit into my work van. There is a mains fed FCU on dedicated circuit in my garage that has previously charged a storage heater each night. That heater is now knackered and I've bought a replacement. The wiring diagram is very limited.... can anyone...

How do you prevent adhesive swirls coming thru LVT? Like this I mean l.....

When you lay herringbone floors with a border..... do u install the border first then tile up to it, or is it best to run the herringbone uo to the edges of the room, cut them all back using a straight edge and then fit border.... I've seen both methods, just wondering which is best. If it...

Im looking to level a few dips in a wooden subfloor prior to glue down lvt. Can anyone reccomend Mapei Ultrplan? Ive read the sticky from Matty that reccomends using F Ball 700 flex - but at 45 quid a bag, the Mapei Ultraplan at 21 quid is a biggsaving - particularly as i need 12 (ish) bags...

Further to Dazlights advice, i have a P5 chipboard floor that i am going to overboard with 5.5mm ply prior to fitting Camaro LVT. There are a few dips in the existing chipboard that i want to level out. Would it be best to use a suitable SLC over the chipboard first, then overboard with ply...

Can LVT be glued directly to P5 chipboard? ie Caberdeck?

Anyone know what this is and what it does? It's on my thermostatic mixer shower? 

Does a 3 way T-shaped service/henley block exist? So the existing tails can remain in-line, with a new tail coming off at 90 degrees to it?

So..... this is an odd one really. My neighbour is a vile piece of....... whatever. She's into everyone's business, complains all the time about anything and everything..... long story, but just a bit of context. Anyway, 2 weeks ago, some suveyors were on ethe strete probably water company, but...

I've built a 1st floor bedroom above my attached garage. The stairs go to a quarter landing, and I have the doorway pretty much off the landing. As shown in the pics. It's going through BCO, and I'm pre-empting him not being over the moon about it. Is this acceptable

Do electrofusion joints swivel in the same way that plastic push fit fittings do, or are they fixed, like soldered joints are? I have a water pipe that has an electrofusion elbow joint on it and want to rotate the joint 180 degrees so the pipe lays the other direction. I've not fully dug the...

My gas meter is fitted with a recessed meter box. The 22mm copper gas pipe passes through the cavity wall from the back of the meter box and is inside a plastic spigot. The spigot is sealed with some grey mastic stuff inside the meter box but there is no mastic on the inside wall where the...

I have a monopitched roof on my front porch. There is a ledger plate screwed to the wall and the roof timbers lie at a 30 degree angle to the plate. They are skew nailed to the ledger plate. BCO has requested each timber be fitted with a joist hanger - massive overkill, but he's requested it...