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Hi folks. I have a pair of 110mm push fit soil pipes in a room that used to be a WC but is being converted into a utility. The 110m pipe connections I refer to are a 90 and a tee and are buried in the concrete slab. The connecting lip of each 110mm fitting sits flush with the top of the concrete...

Hi everyone. We have a couple of outbuildings to which we're fitting new electrical supplies. There's a few different cables being used so we're using ducting to give us flexibility and we're burying it this weekend when the digger driver arrives. We're using 50/63mm Ridgicoil from Polypipe...

Hi folks - after a bit of quick rule-of-thumb advice. We're converting a detached garage into a gym. Its a relatively recent single skin dense concrete block construction. Slate roof and we've bricked up the original garage door and have fitted a double glazed french door for access. We've...

Hi everyone. Just moving into a new house with a very nicely built detached single garage (cavity walls, slate roof and double glazing). The garage is not needed as we're building a much larger one elsewhere but it is ideal to house our home gym (in our current place this is in a spare...

I've been struggling to find anywhere to gain advice for this... then remembered the forum! We're about to complete on a house in South Cheshire near the Shropshire border and I'm in need of a professional to prepare a set of drawings (both planning and building regs) for the construction of a...

Hi folks. We've just viewed a property that we love and we're going to put an offer on it. Its a recent (2019) barn conversion that has a heat-pump heating and has underfloor heating throughout the ground floor. The ground floor is tiled. The only issue is that the tiles they have chosen are...

The boiler is on our garage. We’ve just had it moved. where the flue went through the wall, the inner thermolite block was always missing. I guess it disintegrated when they drilled the hole. stuffed into the cavity around where the flue passed through is all this stuff that looks like a long...

Hi everyone. I'm in need of some wall plates that have female 1/2" BSP Taper threads. This is something that has long confused me - I had assumed that all plumbing threads (on Conex, Taps, Flexis, etc had been a taper thread... until I actually thought about it and realised that's daft as they...

Hi everyone. I need to find a carpet repair tape to go behind a tear. The carpet is actually in a vehicle and is on a vertical face, so the repair will have to resist the effects of gravity pulling the heavy carpet down. As such I don't think a traditional carpet seaming tape will do the job...

Hi everyone. I've just fitted an electric roller shutter door to my garage to replace the old up and over. Now I haven't actually removed the old up and over door yet (the two doors can open and close independently of each other). In order to maximise head height under the lintel, I've fitted...

Hi everyone. We have inbuilt wardrobes in the bedroom with kitchen-type concealed hinges. there’s one wardrobe with double doors. As the doors open, they don’t pivot a neat 90 degrees from the wardrobe carcass. Instead they seem to move inboard with the swing so that when the doors are open...

Hi Folks. just looking for a quick confirmation here as have found conflicting info in past searches. Lighting is split into two circuits (upstairs and down) each protected by 6A breakers. The rings are done in 1.5mm 3-core T&E and there are traditional round plastic junction boxes above each...

Hi everyone. Well I wasn't sure where to start with this - whether to go straight to trades / architects or structural engineers. So though I'd start with the forum to get a starter for 10. I've just bought a new house - we're completing in a few weeks. The main reason I've bought it is for...

Hi folks. Not really plumbing, but as it concerns a WC I thought it best to ask here. just finishing fitting the first of two matching bathrooms. Mrs has chosen a vanity-unit type WC with a concealed cistern (see here) with a matching sink cabinet and a wooden bathroom worktop over the lot...

Hi folks. I've got myself stuck. I need to find some replacement downlights for two bathrooms I'm finishing and I'm really struggling to find any that will fit the original cut outs. The room is decorated and the issue is that the existing holes are approx 80mm, which is much larger than...

Hi folks. about to paint the new bathroom tomorrow. The walls were previously painted and seem to have had a paper border round the top at some point too. The paint was flaky so I’ve spent the day scraping it all back - so it’s now got a consistent surface. Where the paint was absolutely solid...

Hi all. I'm looking for a quick bit of advice if possible re: bathroom fan isolators. I need to replace two extractor fans while replacing two bathrooms. The house was built around 1990 and the fans are the originals - which are now horrible, noisy and yellowing plastic. The existing fans are...

Hi folks. I’m after a bit of advice. I’m just changing the bathrooms in my house (built early 1990s) and I’ve come across strap boss connectors fitted to the soil stack for the first time. Each of the bathroom components has connections to 110mm soil pipe via a strap boss connector. Now – one...

Hi folks. Looking for a quick confirmation here. In the morning I have to join a length of 10mm OD pipe to 15mm OD chrome. I’m planning to use soldered end feed fittings (obvs I’ll remove the chrome first). but looking through my box of fittings as well as screwfix and tool station there...

Hi all. I’ve done loads of general woodworking over the years and its usually turned out OK. But its always been quite agricultural (studding in houses, benches for garages, skirting boards that are later filled an painted) – so I’m just not very experienced at nicely-finished work. I have a...