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Hi. I have a similar problem. I removed some fitted furniture from our bedroom and the wall behind where it was fitted is very smooth, compared to the other exposed areas. I have now repainted all of the room walls with very good quality paint and a fairly thick roller but the difference...

Sorry, this might be a bit of a 'doh' question. I want to fit a sink waste into a spare boss on my toilet soil pipe. The boss sits on the top face of the pipe and is, as manufactured, I.e. Sealed and not broken through. I have bought a rubber 32mm boss adaptor but what is the best way of...

Hi adamch, thanks for the reply. My grout spacers are 4mm each. I think going with 2mm would be too thin for the size of the tile and would be too thin to ensure that the grout is fully packed between the tiles to seal them (it's a wetroom). So that's what throws it out by 2mm on either side...

Hi all. I have a rectangular travatine tile that I want to use on my wall and floor (305 x 458). I intend to use a brick bond pattern on wall and floor. On the long wall, there will be no problem, aligning the grout joints, as the wall tile and floor tile will both run be in the same...

Hi all Im refurbing our en-suite and converting to a wc / wetroom. Ive removed all old tiling and plasterboard and refitted 12mm backerboard to take new Travetine tiles. The back wall of the wetroom i'm installing is an internal breezeblock wall. I knocked of the old tiles, which were set on...

proper way to go. do it once, do it right!

Option 1 looks fine. cant see why you'd waste tiles putting them under the workbenches.

Well just goes to show what I know. Of course washing machines have an outlet filter! Sorry! Anyway, I'm still sure they couldn't do that much harm, but hey, what do I know :-(

Hi mate, we all do daft things sometimes, don't fret about it. I don't imagine that a few needles can do much harm to a washing machine. The forces in the drum are huge so it'll smash the needle to bits and probably flush the bits out through the drain. To the best of my knowledge the...

Hi, I'm not an expert but a handyman that's done a bit of dry rot removal and research. By the way there is lots of conflicting advice out there, but look for advice from academics and independent experts as the dry rot companies want you to believe that dry rot is the bogeyman and you have to...

Sorry mate, I should have been clearer. I'm gonna break out the concrete with my SDS, what I meant is how do I put in a new drain inlet into that down pipe? The pipe also serves the apartment above, but I'll talk to them before I do any work on it. Cheers

Hi I'm renovating our ensuite bathroom. I am installing a wetroom and need to create a lower point of entry into the soil down pipe. As you can see in the photo, the bottom of the pipe is encased in concrete (I live in a three storey apartment block). I will be removing the concrete as...

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Hi Simon, you replied to my question about taking a feed from a supply to a bathroom fan. Could you give me a bit more advice on that please? John

i know chipboard aint the greatest, but at the right thickness, and kept dry, it does the job. The point is, this chipboard is at a sub floor level. So,,,,,,, anybody know where I can get some, or some 2mm strapping?

Hi locket I built a new house about 15 years ago, and the bannister and spindles were all stained mahogany (it was sort of in at the time!). Well I decided it was a bit old fashioned looking, and the joiner hadn't made a great job of fitting it. So I prised off the spacers between the...

Hi big-all. No defo not swollen, as have cut back all the way beyond where there was any water damage. I've seen references to 20mm loft flooring (but can't find a stockist), and this would make some sense, as it is not the finished floor surface but is a sub-floor level that sits on the...

Hi. No 3 pole isolator on the fan. It was isolated on the bathroom lighting circuit. Happy enough to fit one feeding off to the new fan when I fit it, but really just need to know if there are any problems taking a feed from the existing 3 core to a new rose, and using that for separate...