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A few pics of the current state of play. Not my handiwork. Difficult to get good pics, but some 4-5mm differences in tile height. Thoughts?

Hi all, I have a Yellow Irwin pipe bender which does 15mm & 22mm. Does anyone know if the Irwin 12mm guide T560865 will work with this? Thanks M

I decided to put a new carpet and a lick of paint in the loft room. A couple of hours' work. Two days later... The problem was the old ceiling was sagging, and only insulated at the top. Truth is, I was concerned that there may have been no air gap at all, and mold was starting to grow on...

Hi, I have to seal my block paving, and all the info says I need a Viton sprayer otherwise the rubber seals will perish. It's a job I'm going to do once, and I happen to have a spare old non-viton sprayer hanging around. The job will probably take me 2 hours max. Hate to be a part of the...

Hi all. We have a new combi boiler brought down by shale/contaminants in the gas supply. All fixed under warranty, but not sure whether the issue will have been fully resolved by a recent internal pipework upgrade from 22mm to 28mm, or if the cause will be upstream in the meter or supply...

Hi all. Short version: I have a combi boiler which is losing pressure. Long version: Boiler was losing pressure since around June/July. Put a bucket under the overflow and worked out that we were losing 1/2 pint per day. Boiler was serviced and fitted a new pressure relief valve on 11th...

I swapped out my old shower for a 10.8kw one from screwfix. Worked for a while, but at the pull switch it's melting the cables going TO the shower and tripping the breaker. The full run is as follows: About 9-10m of 6mm2 from mcb to a junction box above the switch. 10mm2 from the junction...

Looking at options for tiling a bathroom 2.3M(L) * 1.7M(W) * 3M(H) For the floor looking at replacing old uneven boards with 25mm marine ply (and sealing). I think the walls already have tile-on-tile, so going to take them back to what I'm sure will be pretty rough/uneven brickwork. Was going...

What's best behind pvc wall panels? Was thinking of standard plasterboard with a skim and mist coat, but there may be better/quicker options eg. Knauf Aquaboard primed with something?

I'm replacing a shower tray - the old one had push fit waste fittings below the floorboards. I've used the old waste pipe, but I'm a bit nervous about using compression fittings and sealing them in. They don't leak at the moment but in ten years time...? Any harm in using silicone to seal tbe...

I think I know the answer to this but... I have overboarded (underboarded?) my bathroom ceiling, made a hole and pulled through the shower cable for the pull isolator switch. I think the old switch was just attached to the lath and plaster ceiling above, so no noggins / joists to screw into...

Question for all you plasterers. Do you scrim over the edges of the angle beading?

Purely theoretical question: What do you do when you have 6 * 1.5mm cables to fit in a heavy duty junction box that is only supposed to take 4 * 2.5mm cables? Eg. Ring in Ring out Switch Lights 1 Lights 2 Timer Extractor (3 core and earth) Do you Cram them all in? (Tight, but they'll fit)...

Hi I'm currently renovating my bathroom. Taken all the walls back to brick, and started to overboard the artex ceiling. I'm going to batten and board all the walls, infilled with kingspan, and I have bought a vapour layer to prevent moisture condensing on the insulation. 2 questions, really...

Hi, I want to tile the bathroom floor. Currently there are some very uneven floorboards (which are not very well supported in places due to bad notching). I could just lay the ply on top, but is there any reason not to rip the boards up first and just lay the ply on the joists? It would avoid...

Hi all, I'm planning to install a perforated pipe/french drain system in my garden. There will probably be about 7 upstream endpoints, all draining into one pipe, then out through a wall into some wasteland. Does anyone know if (and how) these are usually vented? And whether/how you could...

My bathroom lights keep tripping the rcd when I switch them on, not just the one circuit, but half the board! There are 5 led gu10 bulbs on the circuit, plus an extractor fan wired into the switched live and main live (for the timer). The extractor is not yet firmly screwed into the wall...

Hi all, Big old Victorian Semi-detached house, hermetically sealed with too much wallpaper, a damp cellar wall, (although cellar is reasonably well ventilated and shut off from the rest of the house) . When we moved in the bathrooms didn't have extractor fans, have fitted one, planning to...

Hi, I'm planning a small ensuite in the loft room (above existing bathroom). Do I need to add a radiator to the system, or is there an electric towel rail that will do the job? Cheers

Hi all, We had small room with two external walls and a pitched roof that was leaking. A couple of years ago, I got the leaks sorted out (I think) and the exterior repointed. My mistake, but at the time I decided that wet plastering was the best way to go, and spent far too long building it all...