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So our double glazed door with 5 lever side locking bar was stuck and for some reason we couldn't lock it. I've stripped it down and graphite lubed the actual locking mechanism and it was working fine. SO next comes the dumb part, I was opening and closing it to make sure and I think I went too...

Hi. Not sure if this is the best home for this thread as it's a mix of lighting and construction. Anyhow, I'm renovating our living room and have stripped the walls back to the stone walls so I can add insulation etc. We have a natural alcove where I want to build in some bespoke shelving and...

Hi all. OK, this is a very early stage of fact finding really. We have a small Steading (barn) here in Scotland and we're thinking of converting it to a two bed property. The plan is to get the whole roof replaced professionally as a lot of the existing beams are rotten. Also, as you can see...

I know this seems to be a well trodden problem, but I can't make sense of why it's happening, or what solution there is for my situation. I've just finished a complete refit in our bathroom and installed a standard P trap for the bath, an anti siphon bottle trap on the sink and the Mcalpine...

OK, so I'm getting a tad confused with all the different kinds of extensions and pipe sizes etc. I have a standard 38mm extendable P trap to fit under our new bath but despite it being extendable it's still falls short of my bath waste by about 50mm. I know I could solve it by raising the trap...

Hi all. OK, I'm confused. I have a shower head which fits to the wall with concealed pipework. I'm plumbing in by gaining access by removing the plaster the other side of the stud wall and here the confusion begins. The bathroom is tiled onto Aquapanel with a total depth of 25mm, but the...

Hi all. As I'm getting into the bathroom renovation I've been thinking that maybe it would be a good idea to fit anti syphon traps as we often, though not always, suffered the wonderful gurgling from the sink in the previous suite whenever we emptied the bath. So is it good practice to fit anti...

OK, so I'm completely renovating our downstairs bathroom. The house is an old Scottish traditional building of granite with lath and plaster walls. One of the effects of lath and plaster was for the plaster to slip down behind the laths during application and onto the underfloor joists encasing...

Hi all. Ok, so I'm just about to refit our bathroom and I'm pretty much ok with most of it, but looking at the shower head (pic below) there are no instructions on how to fit. I am presuming it screws straight into the wall plate elbow but it's the detail of this I'm not sure about. Again, I...

Hi all. OK, so I'm in the middle of a major bathroom refit and whilst examining the external plaster (lath and plaster), I decided it was no way strong enough or well enough constructed for full wall tiles, so off it all came today. One nasty shock was that the window lintel had been seriously...

So I will be refurbing our bathroom and trying to settle on a tile backer for the shower. I was all sold on Aquapanel but after I contacted my local Travis Perkins they didn't have any, but did have Knauf 'Tile Panel' which is on offer. I can't find any info on Knauf website, so wondered what...

Hello all. Ok, so I'm about to refit the bathroom which includes tiling over old floorboards. How is it best to deal with the increase in height for the door threshold after laying ply backing and tiles? I estimate an increase in around 20 to 25mm from bathroom to hall and wondered how people...

I'm really stuck with this one. I've just finished a window frame, but as it's going into rough granite surround there are loads of gaps around the frame - particularly along the top - which need filling and weather proofing. Do I fill with mortar and leave a groove next to the frame to fill...

I'm building a bit of a man cave in my barn. It has an existing opening which I'll use for a small window. It's too small for a full opening window, so I'll construct the frame myself and insert a made to measure unit in there. The problem I have is finding timber frame material anywhere...

Ok, I may be in for a rough ride ahead as I will be attempting some plaster jointing soon on my man cave. I've completed putting up the 12.5mm board and whilst looking at various YouTube videos, there is a mix of people using paper tape, and that reinforced scrim tape for the joins. Can anyone...

Hi all. I'm building a bit of a man-cave thing in my garage and I think I'm just about on top of all the usual complicated stuff, but just can't find an insulated internal door that's not silly money. The entrance is from within the garage, so I don't really need an external door, just...

During the last year since we moved into our house there have been random days where we found the boiler pressure at zero. We would refill and all would be ok for anything between 1 day to two months. The boiler is a Rhino oil fired combo about 4 years old. More recently it's started doing it...

I've searched as best I can, but can't find what the recommended bolt spacing is for attaching a ledger plate to a wall. I am using a 6 x 2 joist as a faceplate for a suspended floor spanning 3.5 metres with support in the middle. I plan on using some M10 x 140 throughbolts but have no idea of...

I am planning on laying a patio path which drops about a foot in 25 feet. How can I do this accurately?Marking it in twine doesn't work due to sag etc. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi. I'm going to be putting a huge heap of granite boulders to use and build a garden wall. I was wondering what mortar mix I should use? The wall will only be about a metre tall and around 35cm wide. I will be using mortar as I fail badly with dry walls!