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Cheers, I guess its best to do the skim of adhesive, let that dry, then screw them down?

Hi there, I'm almost up to the stage of tiling my new bathroom which i've totally gutted and refurbished. There will be a wetroom shower in one corner of the bathroom. I've used an impey wetdec and have the impey tilesafe kit etc. Walls - Most are covered in 10mm wediboard, some in...

Hi, I'm considering getting a Mira Combiforce 415 mixer valve to work with my Vaillant 831 ecotec plus Combination Boiler. Ideally we want a fixed shower head coming down from the ceiling and are considering getting an 8" fixed shower head. I've been recommended that i should not use...

ok... this one seems to be designed for combi boilers http://www.mirashowers.com/onlinecatalog/shower_features.jsp?item=316316&prod_num=Combiforce+415&cat=Mixer+Showers I'd just buy the valve and get a seperate fixed shower head so its all concealed

Hi there, I've recently had a combi system installed and i'm totally re doing the bathroom. The combi i have is a Vaillant Ecotec Plus Combi 831, 31kw, 105,800 BTU, Flow @ 35 degress 12.7. Can anyone recommend a decent built in shower mixer, that powerful and reliable? Also do you...

cold is mains pressure and hot is direct from valliant combi. So even though the speedfit's internal diameter at joints/connections is a lot smaller than 15mm copper it will have the same performance?

Hi, I've never used plastic pipes for plumbing before, but i'm just about to redo the whole bathroom so i bought some 15mm speedfit pipes and connectors. After trying them to test the connections i noticed after inserting the pipe inserts into the plastic pipe the actual pipe diameter is...

thanks for the advice. here's some pics

Hi. I've recently taken out a 1930's fireplace in the lounge. Behind it is an old original baxi boiler. It has two lead pipes going into a solid water heater container, (i'll try to get some pics). I undid one of the lead pipes and was shocked to see that water was still running through...

isnt that the older model? the screwfix "new" one is EMS2026SCC compare to EMS2026SCL

thanks for the replies. The most i could stretch to would be the Ryobi... so seems like thats the one to go for, is there any cheaper places i could get it?

Hi guys, Can anyone recommed a Sliding Compound Mitre Saw for under £200?? I'm not in the trade but do a lot of DIY, so it will be mainly used for stud work, skirting boards, arcitrave, picture rails, coving etc etc.. Ok i've had a quick look around screwfix with my untrained eye and...

yep your spot on i turned the cables round so you could see them in the pic. Definatly the heat from the pipes that has melted the cables.

i thought i was quite good, it only hide the hairline cracks and some dints etc but i think the main advantage with this paint is that it is flexible. Which is what we needed in an old house that swells and contracts through the different seasons. The paint seems to stretch with it, very pleased...

coming in through any air bricks or vents ?

i've got a feeling it might have been done at the same time. As i'm sure that cable goes to the emersion heater in bathroom, which actually blew up when i turned it on the first day we bought the house lol. ( it had a metal jam jar lid on top of the connectors!!)

Yeah pretty scary, i think i've been pretty much everywhere in the house now. Fingers crossed no more horror's lined up waiting for me. What do you think could of happened if it was left like that? melted through in a few month? and possibly a fire? At the moment we've got an antique...

Have a look at this chaps.... The other weekend i was pulling up floor boards in our new (old) house to install alarm cables etc and look what i found... Some bright "spark" has layed these cables ontop of the hot central heating pipes. The floor boards have been squashing these...

Cheers, Yeah the hardcore and the sand is already down. So maybe instead of having 145mm of concrete possibly put in 40-50mm of polystrene insulation on top of the DPM then pour the 100mm of concrete on top?

I think i just need to know what the average depth of the tile adhesive is once its set? As i'm trying to calculate how much concrete i need. This is what i've figured out so far and i've already layed the sand. ---------------------------------------- Tiles 10mm...