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It's around the loft hatch, developed over the last few years: https://1drv.ms/i/s!AmGtZYDBXzj8iMBg_R9zlKwOsWo7_g?e=NfGzac I've also noticed some new reverberation has developed in the floor joists in the same room. I was thinking to get a surveyor in, or should I contact my buildings insurance...

I have a carpenter replacing my knackered upstairs bathroom floorboards with 18mm hardwood ply. He's kindly screwed an extra layer of ply underneath the area where toilet pan fixing screws will go, so that they have 36mm of wood to be secured in (plus the 4mm of LVT on top). I've just been...

I'm told LVT is suitable for bathrooms and kitchens, but wondering if it could cope with my family. Suppose someone gets out of the bath/shower and leaves puddles on the floor, that they don't mop up. On a sheet vinyl floor the puddle will just dry up in the air over a few hours. But on LVT...

Thanks all, the consensus seems to be that I've been unlucky with my gas central heating. I'll have to see what my latest problem with the boiler is (waiting for engineer today actually), and decide from there. I do like the idea of electric heating (convection heaters on each wall), as they are...

I've had too many problems with my boiler and leaking pipes, and during the last problem I found that my house was fine with just plugin 3Kw convection heaters in the rooms that needed heating. Could I just wallmount these myself and have them plugged into the normal wall socket? Or should I be...

Hi, My upstairs bathroom floor is traditional floorboards but they are in bad shape from multiple plumbing jobs that needed to be done underneath them. The board under the toilet pan is actually a bit wobbly and causing a leak from the cistern joint when you sit on it and the pan shifts a few...

Thanks Drives, my hand is somewhat forced on replacing the floorboards, as the boards under the toilet are broken making the toilet pan unstable leading to leaks from the cistern connection. The hardboard I was referring to was 6mm ply yes, it was stapled to the floorboards below and I was...

I had to rip up my laminate flooring recently to fix a plumbing problem under the floorboards. Between the floorboards and laminate was some hardboard that I wasn't able to get up without breaking either. The floorboards were a mess already (the reason for the hardboard I suppose) so I'm...

I do have TRVs on every radiator, but they only solve half the problem: they stop a room getting too hot, but the don't prevent it being too cold if the main thermostat is in a different room that is warmer and so the heating is not running. Weather compensation as far as I understand it only...

I've been getting frustrated with my central heating recently, partly due to my problems with the Hive system, but also with the fact that I just can't my radiators balanced right across the house, and with a single central thermostat you can't compensate for changing wind direction and whether...

My quibbles with Hive are many: 1. Half the time when I login on PC or phone app, the hub or receiver is down, and something needs restarting - so useless when I'm out of the house. 2. The website, try logging in to https://www.hivehome.com/ and finding a link to where you set your thermostat...

"You can get rawl plugs in lengths that you cut to the required size, these are much more solid than the pre cut ones that I never use." Thanks, now I come to think about it, I do recall having seen those. Strange that DIY shops seem to hide them, and just want to sell you the short moulded...

It is actually 80mm, I gave the number 50mm because that is the length of the raw plug. The IKEA cabinet I'm hanging is annoying in that it has long gap between where the screw head stops, and the wall (hence I'm having to use a longer screw). Is there any point in using 75mm screw when you...

Surprisingly difficult to find a straight answer from google on this. I need to work out how much weight I can put into this new bathroom cabinet I've just hung.

I have a north facing ground-floor kitchen with the sink under the window, I had a leak under it a couple of months ago which is fixed, but I do see some black mould on the wall behind the cabinet next to the sink. I've put a hydrometer there and it's always above 70%, though I have got it into...

I'm a bit bewildered by all the choices and elaborate baths, sinks, showers, and toilets when I search for 'bathroom showrooms near me' in google, none have any price, and I don't really want a square toilet with a hidden cistern. I want a normal bathroom for a normal person, where preferably...

Hi, Thanks for all the answers to my previous posts, you really have made the difference and given my confidence to continue with my DIY. I've completed a load of new pipework this past week, and not got any leaking joints. Is it as safe as it'll ever be to start screwing down floorboards...

My bathroom floorboards are a mess after years of different plumbing and electric jobs done, the floorboard the toilet sits on itself is now wobbly. I was thinking of getting the whole floor replaced as part of a redo of the bathroom, what I'd like though is all the plumbing joints to be easily...

Thanks, wasn’t a very good check valve then, was happily letting water through the wrong way for 36 hours before deciding to stop it.

Problem solved! The next thing in-line from the washing machine tee was an innocuous looking compression joint, that would have been fitted at the time the washing machine was installed. Removing this joint and turns out it has what looks like a valve inside it. See photos...