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I'm laying some porcelain paving from the rear of my house into my garden to meet an aco drain just infront of sleeper steps onto our lawn. The acp drain is set lower to accommodate a 1:60 fall. My question is how do I ensure that my paving ends up a couple mm above the top of the aco drain...

I have seen various guides online of how to adjust doors but nothing specific to mine. Can anyone help. You can probably tell in the pic the door is not central in the frame and needs lifting on the left.

I have just had type 1 laid ready to lay porcelain, I need to add in recessed manhole covers for the drains shown. I'm having a splash strip around the perimeter of the house filled with decorative stone for drainage. How would you go about installing the covers. The downpipe access cover...

Hi, my wife wants this architrave running up the stairs to the landing as shown in the image, they are both a torus profile. How do I make the join look neat? I have various tools including bevels etc..

I'm currently digging out for a new patio, I have accounted for a 1:80 fall away from the house, at the end of the patio I will need to build a retaining wall, probably 2-3 blocks high, with steps. Do you think I would need an ACO at the end of the patio, or could I just have a channel of loose...

Is it possible to build a patio that is level with DPC, BUT the patio separated from the house wall with a 150mm width splash strip filled with decorative stone. Various reasons for it, but is this ok.

I'm planning to relandscape my garden, it is a garden which is sloped upwards. The ground level outside the patio doors is about 650mm lower than the highest part of the garden (3/4 the length). I'm looking to lay porcelain patio to the immediate exterior, 150mm below DPC. Then either sleepers...

Hi, I'm trying to add a radiator to our central heating system. The nearest pipework to connect to is in the airing cupboard on the landing. There is a few pipes there but from what I can make out the one arrowed red is ch flow (run heating and that's the only one that got hot quick)...

Hi, I'm just looking for advice. I have 5g click lock herringbone flooring, brand is polyflor. Below is a plan of my kitchen. I'm struggling to work out where to start my run they say in general to start of the longest wall build triangles, then run off them. My issue is my longest wall has a...

I have 600 x 900 tiles. I am at an internal corner with a 450 cut, would you normally start the next wall with a 150 cut then full tile? If so then I have will have a cut into a external corner. Would you normally not run the uncut edge until a external corner bead ejther side to keep it neat...

I have a shower screen chanel (bit the screws to the wall) which has been damaged when trying to prise away from the old tiles. Unfortunately we are going to have to ditch it, but rather than buying a whole new shower screen can we just buy another chanel? The internal diameter is 30mm, there is...

Hi I have a blanco sublime 1.5 bowl sink. The baskets have a sort of push fit connection underneath. Using the pipework they supplied to looks like the pic below. Not ideal really but there isn't enough space to put it at the back. What else would I need in order to get it plumbed up and can I...

I want to buy a single Lever monobloc kitchen tap, but I need it to have the Lever at the front like the one below. Can you literally buy any other tap like this that has the controls to the side and turn the tap so the controls face the front, or do you have to buy one that specifically looks...

I'm fitting a kitchen at the moment and it's pretty much done, but just having trouble with the integrated fridge/freezer door! The door is level and fits to the carcass fine. But when the hinges for the fridge door are attached the door doesn't close in the same position (it's hinged on the...

Hi, I'm fitting this kitchen at the moment, I'm pretty much done but I have to figure out a way of running the dishwasher waste and sink waste to the soil stack. The stack sits at the back left corner of the pantry cupboard. There isn't enough room at the back of the dishwasher to run a waste...

Hi, I'm having my kitchen replaced and I need a new tap. Cold water comes from mains with very good pressure. Hot comes from an vented hot water cylinder so pressure not so good. I understand I need a low pressure kitchen tap. I've found one that works at 0.5 bar min, in general would this...

I have a rad which is on a drop down leg, I need to drain this part to work on the system. I presume I just need to tie ball valve up, use the drain cock on the rad in question and vent rad as normal drain, refill and bleed?

I have laid a patio before to a good standard but I want to know if the following would be OK. I understand finished level should be 150mm below dpc, but I have a decent concrete base to come off, rather than dig out and type 1, can I go over and put aco drains around the permiter so it...

I need to retile my shower room, the shower has been leaking as water is penetrating the back of the tile through the grout and pulling the tiles off the bottom of the wall where it meets the tray. I have tiled a concrete floor before which was fine, is this a big job? It's three walls incl...

Hi, I have had my floor self levelled twice but it's still not dead level. Between the high and low spots the floor is about 10mm out of level. All other areas of the floor are within around 5mm How would you go about tiling this? Just start from the high spots and try and taper down to the low...