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In the process of replacing a toilet. Horizontal connection to cast iron soil pipe plus collar. The original pan connector has had to be replaced and was wrapped to the cast iron with some sort of waxed fabric stuff. It seems that the reason it was wrapped is the soil pipe itself, rather than...

We have a Honeywell wireless thermostat controlling a combi boiler where the wireless receiver (BDR91) has stopped working - no led lights display at all and of course no heating coming on (hot water works fine) Is there any way to test that it is just the wireless receiver that is the problem?

We're just in the process of ripping out our bathroom and starting from scratch. Currently there is vinyl on top of ply on top of the original floorboards. The ply will be coming up so that we can access the plumbing to reroute some of it. We then need to make a decision about whether...

What are the best fixings for attaching a kitchen base cabinet to a plasterboard wall? Base cabinets so wall fixing is just to secure rather than hold any weight. It will be fixed to cabinets either side which are fixed to brickwork. Is it even worth fixing to the plasterboard? Cheers

Two rooms knocked through to one to create new kitchen and new circuits installed. Connection point for both electric oven and gas hob located in kitchen cupboard adjacent to oven. We've just about reached the installation stage and now find that the hob is supplied with a v. short length of...

We've removed a tiled windowsill and the surface left behind is rather uneven. What's the best thing to use to level it out?

We have an old coal gas supply pipe in the corner of our kitchen, comes up from the floor for about a foot and is capped off. Would a plumber be able to remove this to floor level or thereabouts, or is there likely to be a good reason it's been left in situ like that?

Had an electrician round this morning to quote for some new sockets and lighting circuit in our new kitchen. He said that we need a new consumer unit. It's an oldish MEM unit but with RCD protection and one that a new boiler was wired in to in 2010. Have regulations changed in the past...

Is it ok from a building regs perspective to gripfill fireboard to the bottom edge of a universal beam?

Currently got a wall with a chimney breast and recesses either side. We're constructing stud wall to block up the recesses so that the wall will be flush with the front of the chimney breast. Chimney breast is not very deep ~20cm and what we gain by having a straight wall with no recesses (it's...

So we've knocked out a wall, removed what feels like a million layers of woodchip/wallpaper and played about with kitchen designs and got one that we think we're happy with. We're just about ready to order and I'm suddenly wondering if we've got it right/wrong. Thoughts (door...

We're in the process of preparing a room for a kitchen fitting after knocking two rooms into one. Along one side of the room is a chimney breast approx 1.4m wide with open fire grate but only 24cm deep. The brickwork for this finishes at ceiling joist level. It appears that the chimney itself...

The house we are looking to purchase had a new boiler installed in October last year but no certificate can be produced and the local authority have not been notified. I'm fairly confident the boiler has probably been installed correctly as we do have the ELECSA registration that relates to...