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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...

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...

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'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...

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...

Hi, The other night I replaced a copper pipe that was leaking with plastic piping, involving three speedfit elbows, a speedfit straight coupler, and a metal tee for a washing machine. Was quite pleased that it was all working, no leaks from any joints, then suddenly this morning while I was...

Succeeded in replacing the leaking copper pipe that was taking water to the rest of my house, replaced it with some plastic pipes using speedfit joints. I know I'm supposed to screw pipe clips to the wall to take the weight of the pipe, but how urgent is it that I do this? In the photo you can...

Googling this all I find are questions about reusuing pushfit joints themselves. In this case I'm going to throw the old pushfit elbow joint away, and replace it with a pushfit tee. Do I need to do anything to the pipe after the pushfit has been removed? As I understand it, with compression...

A pipe next to my mains entry pipe is leaking, and I'm not sure where the water is going but it's definitely not spreading out on the kitchen floor where the pipe comes in, I suspect it's running down the hole made for the mains pipe which goes through the cavity wall on its way to connecting to...

Hi, I had a moling company replace my mains supply pipe recently, because the existing copper pipe was leaking around the floor where it was coming up from. They used a core drill to drill down through the floor/wall to the outside underground, where the new pipe ran to the mains supply. The...

Hi, I've been asking around friends and colleagues for recommendations of local firms that do water supply pipe replacement (with moling), and got a 'half' recommendation from a colleague who said they did the job, but he wasn't happy that they hadn't insulated the pipe in the floor, and they...

Hi, I've got water slowly welling up around the mains pipe coming up from the kitchen floor, I'm having to have the water turned off in the street at the stop cock most of the time, only turning it on for a brief periods to do washing and fill some buckets and bottles. The emergency plumber...