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I had to made a repair to the flow side of a pair of HC copper pipes. A solder junction was leaking - it was also *right* on the edge of the joist and I think was being squeezed by the floorboard over it. Several feet away (along the copper pipe) there was a compression fitting which also was...

"For best results remove immediately after painting" ... this is what ALL the masking tape manufacturers says in their instructions. But what about my 2nd coat? Maybe it's primer and top coat or 2 top coats or whatever - I invariably need 2 coats of paint. I like to use a masking tape in some...

I've inherited a large amount of unused 75mm Rockwool insulation (long story). And I'm soon going to be re plaster boarding a ceiling. Joists are approx. 350mm oc., ie approx. 300mm between the joists but it varies a lot (old building). I'll be cutting each length to fit the width. I want to...

I'm about to fit an outside tap (to catch the last few weeks of summer). Water source is an interior 15mm pipe; then will have a 3m, surface-mounted run inside heated room to an exterior block wall; then tap outside. I'm going to use plastic 15mm pipe; appearance doesn't matter; frost...

Under a first layer of paint and skim plaster I see, in a few places, what look like threads or filaments within the plaster substance. Pics attached but I'm not sure how well you'll see them - 3 photos getting closer and closer). What is it please? And do I care? And what do I do? ThxWall...

I'm using Ty Mawr, ready-mixed, fine-grade hemp plaster to do a base coat on an area of an interior brick and stone wall. Hopefully this picture links works ...Lime Plaster Cracking by slowlybutsurely posted 4 Jun 2016 at 11:04 PM It's filling in area surrounded by good sound plaster (regular...

A couple of weeks ago I had an install of a Worcester Bosch Greenstar Highflow 440CDi with the Worcester Wave controller. It might be my imagination, but I think the CH pump runs constantly. Even when it's been hours since the heating was on, I can hear and feel (near the boiler) the vibration...

Old property has a couple of fireplaces with sunken hearths. I want to have waxed floorboards so at the very least I needed to level it. See pictures showing sunken level - approx 2cm at worst point. So I ripped it up - the tiles, the cracked slab, ... And found the cause of the...

This house has had 2 new combo boilers since these room/zone thermostats were used (so I thought). [see pics attached] When I ripped it out and cut the wire when decorating - and then tested them with my multimeter, I found 2v or 3v between various of the 4 wires in that cable. What and...

Hope you can see the photo. Old house (100 yrs plus). Slate roof. On the back-side of the slates, between the rafters is this white plastery stuff. In parts, the white stuff has dropped off. What's this stuff called? It looks useful - how do I fix it please? Thanks

This question is going to show me up as a DIYer ... House is 100 years old. I've got some floor boards up and there is a lot of builder's debris down there. Under all the junk, there is the lath/plaster of the ceiling below: The neat-freak part of me wants to clean it all up...

Old house. Has cement/concrete window sills. Some show cracking and 'peeling', like the one in the attached picture. Ideas please to fill/cover these cracks to give them another 20 years of life? I clearly need to stop water getting in there and making in worse. The sill seems pretty...

I have a 22mm compression fitting that showed a very slow leak (one detaching drip about every 3 minutes) for about 60 minutes and then leak stopped. Hasn't leaked for about a week now - but it keeps me awake at night. It's on the hot supply. So this is what I'm thinking (using what's in my...