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Hello, I see there are many similar posts in here but each is slightly different. I am redecorating room and wanted also to refurbish the door frame. There were many cracks between door frame and the architrave. After cleaning the door frame up I was left with this gap between architrave and...

Hello, I am preparing to renovate an upper room. We already bought Kandean Korlok LVT for it. The floor has old, battered floorboard planks. We want to add some sound deadening to it too. Also, it has to be raised around 9mm, this is to match the floor height in the landing. My first idea was...

Hello, I'm in a proces of renovating an attic room and I am unsure which architrave should I use for the storage door. The doors are 18mm and mounted on the surface. So I am looking at 18mm architrave to hide the door edge. At the same time my skirtings will be bullnosed so would like to...

Hello everyone, We have been having some issues with our 8 year old Ideal Logic+ combi boiler. A year ago or so it was loosing flame during CH so we had the ignition electrode and flame sensing electrode replaced by a gas engineer. It seemed to have fixed the problem then. Now we have a...

Hi there, I have got a tilt & turn window in bathroom with a broken top hinge. I think it is a concealed hinge. But unsure where to find a replacement. Does the hinge need to be 1:1 replica or can I use aftermarket product? Where to look? Any help greatly appreciated! Thank you

Hello, I am renovating my 3 bedroom house and currently dealing with central heating. I got a plumbing 'expert' who designed a central heating for the house: It is all on hep2o with 22mm manifolds. From there 10mm pipes goes to every room. It looks like this: As you can imagine this is sub...

Hi, I would need some advice on what vent to use and how to install it.. Basically, I need a vent in my bathroom door so my bathroom fan can draw air from outside the bathroom... Knowing that the door are 35mm wood doors, what vent can I use? What size should it be? I was wondering...

Hi, I thought this will be easier but apparently there are multiple ways of doing this so I need some advise... I've got 15mm pipe on outer wall of my building and would like to connect a garden hose to it permanently. I'm considering having a regular garden hose like this on...

Hi, I've installed a fan in my bathroom that starts when bathroom lights are switched on and stops 5 minutes after the lights are switched off. Work great! Though, I do not need the fan to be on when I brush my teethes or wash my hands. But I need it only when the shower (combi boiler) is...

Hello, I hope someone can advise me in here... I got a leak in my roof that needs to be sorted out pretty urgently. The roof overall does not look in a healthy condition. It looks like the leaks is around the chimneys. So I got a few quotes. Most of them are around £3,500 but one of them just...

Hi, It looks like I need some advice on this one... Got a new basin (on a pedestal) that I am about to install. Though, when put together against the wall the basin is not leveled... It is fine on sides (left-right), though the back of the basin is slightly lower than the front. So I...

Hi, I'm looking for some advice in getting my flat partially rewired. It has modern fuseboard including RCD (30mA) for bathroom. All the cables in the flat (sockets, lights, etc) are brown, blue, green-yellow and are going up the attic and this is where the mess begins. Got two main...

Hi, I'm about to get a new extractor fan for my bathroom. Here is something what puzzles me - why to use low voltage extractor fans as oppose to regular voltage ones? Or vice-verse? Second question - my bathroom is very small (around 3m2 and ceiling at 2.4). Will it be wrong to install a...

Hi, This sounds to me a bit tricky. My flat has concrete floors throughout including bathroom which I'm just renovating and dealing with the floor... I found out that my hot water pipe goes under floor in a trough of around 5cm wide. The trough is covered with some kind of sheet 3mm thick...

Hi there, I was just putting some finishing touches to my newly decorated bathroom and installing bath screen on tiled wall. The bath screen is supposed to be fixed using 3 screws (6mm hole) to the wall. I think I overtightened one of the screws and couple of tiles came off the wall along...

Hi, I was just wondering - can I use an SDS drill bit on a regular/hammer drill? Or is there something special about SDS drill bits and they will not fit this drill? Thanks,

Hi there, I was just putting some finishing touches to my newly decorated bathroom and installing bath screen. The bath screen is supposed to be fixed using 3 screws (6mm hole) to the wall. I think I overtightened one of the screws and couple of tiles came off the wall along with underlying...

Hi, I'm thinking of exchanging my basin to a single (mixer) tapped one. My current basin sits on a pedestal. Do I have to change the pedestal as well or is there a way to find a sink/basin that fits my current pedestal? Is this anyhow standardised and any basin works with any pedestal?

Hi, I'm slowly getting to an end with my bathroom renovation project. One of the things left is - lights. My bathroom is really small (around 1.8 x 1.8m) so I'm thinking of getting three halogen bulbs/lights similar to this...

Hi, I've got a leak in my roof and hopping to get a company to fix it. It is a tenements so a scaffolding will be needed and therefore the cost is predicted to be sky hight to do any work. Luckily the cost will be split between all inhabitants but nevertheless it is not cheap per flat either...