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Ive removed some cement fiber board from my chimney hoping to find somthing nice underneath it that i can install a log burner in. Im dissapointed with what ive been left to work with IMG_7827 by tombodge posted 20 Nov 2016 at 9:39 PM What a mess. How do i go about sorting this out...

Hello. Im installing a new radiator in my bathroom and the central heating pipes will have to pass over one of the waste pipes for the shower. They will be one inch away once ive bent up a cross over. Is it ok to run hot central heating pipes that close to a plastic waste pipe?

I'm rewiring my house and due to it been 100 years old there's been a few people that have had a mess around with it in the past. At the moment some cable shares the same notch's as the copper central heating pipes for the radiators. These are been removed for the rewire.. Many of the notch's...

Hi. Im having all the plumbing in my bathroom exposed (polished up copper) with old school vavles or tapes, abit like this...

Hi Ive got all my marble installed in my bathroom (polished on the walls, tumbled on the floor) Its now time to grout and seal it. Which is the best way around thing. Clean it with residue remover, seal it, grout it, residue remover to get rid of grout, seal it again?? Or clean it, grout...

Im thinking / dreaming about building an underground bunker man cave in my garden fairly big around 25 m2 3 meters deep. It would be 4 meters from the house and 2 meters away from all the fences. So wouldn't need planning ect. The only thing I could get into my garden is a micro digger and...

Hi. Ive layed some tumbled marble 10x30s in my bathroom in a herringbone pattern and im just about to seal and grout it. Ive used 3mm spacers but where ive gone down into the shower tray and a couple of cuts and the odd few tiles the gap has closed up to about 1mm-1,5mm somthing like that. It...

Hi. Im about to lay some 10cmx30cm marble in my wetroom / bathroom floor. Im struggling to find which trowel to use. after hours of googleing I think i need to end up with a "soild bed" and back butter the tiles. But im unsure of what trowel to use, square, V, U ect 6-8mm?? The floor is...

Hello. Im in need of a little advice. Its possible im over thinking things but im asking around to put my mind at rest. Im installing a marble floor in my wetroom/ bathroom upstairs Its a 1930 house. My floor seems soild to walk on. The joists are in good condition between 7x2 7x2.5...

Hello. Im in need of a little advice. Its possible im over thinking things but im asking around to put my mind at rest. Im installing a marble floor in my wetroom/ bathroom upstairs Its a 1930 house. My floor seems soild to walk on. The joists are in good condition between 7x2 7x2.5...

I plastered my first wall today and it went really well. I got a finish that I think is fairly decent. My original plan was to get a plaster to skim my ceilings (plastered boarded and taped) and id do the walls. Today went better than expected so now im thinking about giving the ceiling ago...

Im tiling 2 of my walls in my bathroom. Its a 1930 house. Original sand lime and cement plaster (i think) or just sand / cement. Ive got to level out one of my walls as its all over the place. Ive knocked off any loose plaster 10-20mm thick and PVAed all of it twice. What should I use to...

Im tiling 2 of my walls in my bathroom. Its a 1930 house. Original sand lime and cement plaster (i think) or just sand / cement. Ive got to level out one of my walls as its all over the place. Ive knocked off any loose plaster 10-20mm thick and PVAed all of it twice. What should I use to...

Will dot and dab adhesive stick to soot on brickwork and how would I prep the wall. Its where a chimney breast has been removed. Ive removed all I can with a wire brush and scrapper but the bricks are still stained black

Im building a stud wall in my bathroom. Its going to be one of the walls which makes up my wet room so will be tanked and waterproofed before been tiled. I was going to plaster the wall but ive got to ride over some prity ruff brickwork where a chimney once was which also drops back 4" and...

Ive got to plaster board my whole house. I quoted up using the kingspan backed plasterboard at first. Only on the external walls. I worked out that it would only pay for its self after 5 years plus so decided i wouldn't bother. Ive notested afew other brands about now (can't see the...

Ive currenty got the ceiling down in my kitchen directly below my bathroom. Im compleatly refiting my bathroom. To get around the fact i cant notch the flooring joints excessily for my waste pipe for the shower i want to run it below the flooring joists and then lower the ceiling with battens...

Hello. Please give me a chance to ex-plane myself and look at the pictures. Im not a complete idiot :) but I could really do with some advice on this. I know the chimney removal thread gets repeated all the time. But the situation i'm in is this. I got a structural engineer in to do...

Im having my boiler moved. I need to bury the boiler pipes under my floor. Its currently old red quarry tiles layed ontop of dirt. Its only a small downstairs toilet so im not going to dig down really deep and add insurlation ect. Just a damp course and 6" or so concreat slab and then...

Ive got to install some gallow brackets for a chimney ive removed. I think the stuckal engeneer has over speced them alittle bit. Ive got to mount 3 brackets make out of 10mm steel with 3 bolts in each bracket. There m20 bolts which need 24mm holes 2 courses of brick deep. The only...