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Evening, I'm after some pointers/opinions please? I'm looking to replace a 1000mm wide radiator with a 1200mm wide one. The pipes currently come up out of the floor in copper, straight up and into the valves. I don't want to lift the carpet and rearrange the pipework under the floor, which I...

Evening, I wonder if someone can help with this very basic problem I'm having please? I've just re-piped up to a PRV and I've gone to replace the section of pipe with the old olive on. The old one seems to be much thicker/taller than the any of the new ones I have, meaning that when I put a new...

Afternoon all, I was due to have my external gas meter changed to a smart meter but have had scaffolding put up and the scaffolder tells me that no one will do any gas work under scaffolding. No issues with that as I can see that it's the rules, but I'm just wondering what the reason is for...

Evening, Wonder if anyone can help please? I'm planning to build a 600mm high retaining wall in my garden and I've fallen at the first hurdle unfortunately - trying to work out the bond. I like the appearance and the strength of English bond so I'm going with that. The wall will be a 1-brick...

Can anyone think of any solutions to connect up a 32mm OD Spazio/Franke style space-saving basin waste tail with a short 36mm OD solvent weld tail please? I've already tried a fermco which won't fit due to space restrictions (it's too long and causes the pipe connecting with the waste itself to...

I'm just about to attempt to fit a couple of uPVC windows but I'm getting conflicting advice as to how to fit the cill. Which way is best? I'm thinking of: - Siliconing the upstand - Fixing the cill to the frame with screws through the bottom of the cill into the underside of the frame -...

I've just taken delivery of two Kommerling O70 windows/profiles and there are no bridging packers to be seen in the ancillaries pack. I assumed that they would come as standard given that they're an essential part of the install, so I didn't explicitly ask for them. Should I have?

I've just taken my Magnaclean off to clean it and it won't sit back in the position it came from (flush with the valve assembly). It's not leaking, but the brass showing is setting off my OCD... Will it be OK? Pushing it back doesn't do anything - it just reverts back to the position shown in...

Afternoon, We've recently had a loft extension built which has added a WC on the second floor where there wasn't one before. As a result, the waste seems to enter the manhole with a lot more gusto than before due to the extra height, and we're getting waste fouling the benching opppsite. At...

Good afternoon, I have a Bosch SGS56E02GB/45 dishwasher which has recently started causing a hammering in the pipework when it fills. The needle on the pressure gauge on the rising main jumps up and down in time with the noise. I replaced the fill valve, but this has not solved the problem. I...

Good afternoon, I need to fix some MDF matchboard to a timber frame in a bathroom I'm refurbishing. I'd like to fix the matchboard to the frame invisibly and I was originally thinking of using keku or button-fix fixings, but the MDF is too thin to screw into. I'd like it to be demountable, so...

I need to fit a set of taps where the tap tail has a 1/2" feed to the central mixer off to the side, as per the diagram below: I obviously need to tighten the backnut to the basin, but the side projection makes the box spanner that I have totally useless. The adjustable and non-adjustable...

I'm about to take on the tiling of the floor in my bathroom and I'd like to check I'm heading the right way please? Any pointers welcome. The floor has been taken up and the joists are exposed at the moment, so my plan is to fit: - 18mm WBP ply, fixed at 300 centres with 45mm Floortite screws...

I'm going to ask what is potentially quite a silly question, so please excuse me if so: I've just taken delivery of a new basin and there are two points on the underside where the glaze appears to have been milled/ground off. Is this normal, done to level them up after they're fired? My only...

Morning, I'm hoping someone can help out with this basic question? I need to repoint a small area of brickwork on my Victorian house. No matter what I've tried, all the mortar mixes I've made up are too grey. I've been using regular grey cement and builder's sand from Wickes. The colour I'm...

Hopefully you can offer your opinions on how best to deal with this please? I'm ripping out an old bathroom to install a fresh one. I've taken out the old bath and discovered that the heating flow and return currently run above floor level and used to be hidden by the bath panel. I'm...

We've just had some skirting replaced and the electrician has damaged it by hammering it to the wall along its length. It's now ruined. I'm now trying to find a suitable replacement and the only bits I can find are slightly off in either dimension. It measures 115x20mm. Anyone any bright ideas...

Is there a reason I shouldn't paint the outside of a standard Vaillant concentric flue black? By my logic the inner plastic pipe is the part that bears the brunt of the heat, so it shouldn't cause any problems if I paint it. Or have I missed something and it'll be a monumentally bad idea?

I have a recently installed Vaillant 615 Ecotec Plus boiler and a 170L Heatrae Sadia / Santon Premier Plus indirect cylinder. It's wired up to a standard S Plan system - no weather compensation. The boiler was specced having done a whole house heatloss calculation and is slightly smaller than...

Hoping someone can help please? We've just had a Vaillant Ecotec Plus 615 installed and the electrician and installer are slightly flummoxed. It is a Honeywell S-plan system. There is no call for heat (0V to the 'RT' terminal) but the boiler is maintaining the flow at 75c (through the internal...