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I'm sprucing up my bathroom, and I'm going to be changing my bath taps and waste. At the moment there are two individual pillar taps around 6 inches apart. Edit : Measured and it's 7 inches / 180mm Ideally I'd like a mixer instead. I notice most mixers for baths have two inputs and I'm...

Not really plumbing, but I think it's where it's the least worst fit! I bought a load of bathroom fittings - shelves, toilet roll holder, soap holder, etc etc. They all have fittings which take a couple of screws into wall plugs. Over the top of these fittings the chrome goes, and hides...

The heating engineer who put in my central heating last year said he could do a new bathroom for me if needed. He's due tomorrow to service the boiler and I'm going to ask him to price for that. It's not a large bathroom, 3.25m x 1.5m and I'd be looking for a bog standard bath with a glass...

So in the spirit of my continued disasters... My spice rack is finally up on the wall. 3 out of 4 screws are in, the 4th just spins. I think I know why it just spins. The spice rack is live, and gives me a solid electric shock if I touch it. So does my gas boiler, which is to the left...

I bought a couple of floating shelves from Homebase and they sag. I'm not sure what is causing them to sag, however I'm sure I've installed the bracket without contorting it so I think it's the shelves themselves. Is there anything I can be doing to get them fixed?

I bought a Makita HR1830 on eBay, and it seemed fine until I went to use it today. I'm just using a normal Makita SDS+ 6mm masonry bit and it's noticeably wobbling when it's powered on. It's not just the drill bit that's wobbling, it's the whole end of the drill, from the release mechanism...

I bought a flat last year, and I'm very inexperienced at DIY. My Dad claims to be the fountain of all knowledge, and he decided the bath would be nicer if he ran silicone underneath the edging strip of the tiles. It's a disaster. It fills up with black mould which eventually pokes out, it...

I needed a new drill, and I managed to find a good price on a Makita SDS+ hammer drill. It is of course overkill for what I'm after, but for the type of drill it's fairly small, and I got a corded SDS drill for the price of a normal cordless drill. My walls are tough to drill into so it'll...

I'm very amateur at DIY and I'm struggling to get things done properly. Often I find when I drill into my walls to mount shelves, for example, I don't get the holes in the right place or the rawl plugs don't take, or the screws don't take. I understand the mechanics of how a rawl plug works...