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Hi, I recently started renovating a dining room, the parquet floor had been covered with a carpet for years and I was looking forward to sanding and re-finishing it. Once I'd lifted the the carpet a few spots of the floor had a loose sound when knocking on it but there wasn't much movement in...

Hi, I hope someone can help. I have a rather large CWT, not sure of the total capacity as I write this but recall at some point thinking it would be equivalent to 2 adults. My house is rectangular with quite a steep pitched roof, hipped at both ends. There are two internal single brick walls...

Hi All, I'm contemplating removing the bay window in my kitchen. It's very awkward to plan around it and it also looks a bit odd on the rear aspect of the house. I've attached some photos; there's a steel lintel/RSJ over each of the skins of brick; the house is probably 1930s. I'm unsure...

Hi Everyone, I have bought some standalone PIRs and some (cheap) LED floodlights. I've just rigged a quick test up inside the house and I'm having a major problem. The reason I rigged it up was just to see if there was an override on the PIR (Ranex 180 degree outdoor PIR from amazon); I just...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can answer a question for me. I'm installing a new (larger) HWC for use with a 2 bar shower pump. Plan A was to use a Surrey flange through the normal top outlet for the hot water and have the high priority feed heading to the pump (then to shower and bath) and the...

Hi Guys, I'm looking to replace the rotting cheapo garden shed and have decided to have a go at constructing it myself. I was looking at shiplap cladding but then stumbled across this video on youtube...

Hi, I wonder if there's a hinge to solve my particular problem. I have recently refitted my bathroom and want to allow access to the back of the shower. This is currently a stud wall that is to be tiled. The problem I'm facing is to get a type of hinge that will open in such a way that it...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had ever come across a 1/2in thread to 15mm compression elbow (with two or three screw holes for attaching to a wall) but with the plate on the opposite side; allowing you to fix to ceiling or floor but the threaded part still pointing horizontally? Reason I ask is...

Hi, Sorry if this is a really dumb question. I'm used to seeing combi boilers now with the sealed CH circuit and a separate pipe for HW on demand. In a house I'm renovating the coil in the HWC seems to be fed from the central heating circuit (gravity fed). I suppose my question is is...

Hi all, I was hoping someone could help or at least tell me there's nothing on the market for what I'm after. I bought a cheapo cistern kit from eBay, something almost identical to...

Hi, I was hoping someone could offer me some advice/guidance. I have recently bought a wet room channel drain and I'm now concerned it's not fit for what I want. Please find image of the drain The insert is to be tiled so that you just get a square outline where the water runs down...

Hi, I am currently modernising a house. Though the house is 1950s the electrics in there aren't "too bad" (my opinion based on no experience!). It has a modern consumer unit but the older wire colours. We're re-decorating each room at a time and I was wondering what I could get away with...

Hi all, Firstly, I'd like to thank you all for the lots of tips/help I've gleaned from this site in the past. Though I've only joined just now, and this is my first post I've used this site as a primary source of research before embarking on many previous DIY jobs. We've just bought a...