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Evening all. Potential issue with my boiler so looking for help before I get someone out to look. I have an ideal ff24. Old but fairly robust. Seperate hot water tank in the bathroom etc. Tonight the hot water has been on and there is no hot water. The pump in the airing cupboard is...

Hi guys. what’s the best way to prep my spindles and handrail for painting. looks like it was previously oil based gloss that has been painted over with water based satinwood or something. It’s peeling like chewing gum. I have a paint scraper but obviously on the detail bits isn’t so good...

Hi guys. hoping for a bit of direction….. I have a wall mounted stair handrail in my house (built 1997). The stairs is a U shaped so the handrail is in 5 parts. The paint job on it was shocking and difficult to sand. So I thought I’d use a heat gun and because I didn’t want loads of mess I...

Hi all, I’m currently trying to work some ideas out for what to do with my garden. Just working through ideas at this stage my garden used to slope downwards away from the house. The last owner pretty much levelled it out. Except the bottom left hand side. (See picture) where he built a...

Hi all, what’s everybody’s opinion on tiling into the window reveal when tiling part way up in a kitchen? For bigger jobs in the past I have paid tilers, however I have just done a small bit in the kitchen myself. (Not to save money but more to occupy me with the never ending rubbish that’s...

Hi Hopefully this is in the right place. mom going to build a bbq smoker from an oil drum. I have something I want to stencil on the front of it, however I like to make things more difficult for myself so am wanting to stencil some kind of metal plate and screw this down at 4 corners Is...

Hi guys, following on to a previous post, I’m about to start taking up the damaged floor that got wet a few weeks ago it’s chipboard on top of 25mm of what looks like some sort of polystyrene and then concrete? anyway on the images attached is this black stuff dpm? Or i think Someone told...

Hi guys, Looking for a bit of help..... recently had a water leak which has wrecked the laminate flooring that was in my hallway. Taken it up and it’s drying out. I remember laying this and the floor wasn’t very level then. Only now the water is lifting the chipboard flooring at the edges...

Hi guys, I have a small piece of wall, 2.3m high x 0.7m wide. It’s solid block with PB dot and dabbed to it. Between the block and the pb is some 10mm microbore pipes for the radiator. I had to cut some of the pb away at the bottom to relocate the radiator and in doing so used 15mm copper...

Hi I’m hoping someone can help me out as I’m a bit stuck I bought a wall hung toilet frame from grohe. I have an offset soil pipe. Although admittedly didn’t realise how offset it was until I stripped the room out. It’s a downstairs cloakroom so the soil pipe goes straight down and under the...

Hi guys. As per my other post I’m on with my cloakroom so got a couple of questions. I have a wall hung corner basin. Last time I hung one I think I drilled through the tiles after they were fitted to then hang the basin, is this right or should I be fixing the bolts then getting the tiler to...

Hi guys, I am going to start ripping out my downstairs toilet. It’s a very narrow space and the wife wants a close coupled back to the wall toilet. This was ok until I realised the soil pipe that comes out the floor is offset. So offset that from what I can work out the toilet as a back to the...

Hi guys, I’m about to rip out my downstairs cloakroom. It’s a not so impressive 1.7m long by 0.7m wide. Anyway I have learned my limitations so will be paying someone to do the tiling. The current plan is to tile half way up in probably a white gloss metro with a dark grout. The top half will...

Hi guys, what’s the correct process for wallpapering a feature wall? the wall currently had a murial?! Of planet earth on it in the centre which is applied over a Matt blue emulsion. I did the planet earth quite a few years ago and whilst it’s stayed up it is coming off far easier than I would...

Hi guys, About 4 years ago I put some decking on the wall to hide the ugly wall. I applied some Cuprinol natural decking oil and it looked nice, been neglected for a couple of years so starting to look a bit shabby. We also live near a main road so get quite a bit of crap from cars coming into...

Hi guys. I have a 1.5 bowl sink. Hopefully the image has attached ok and you can see my pipes! the trap is on the 1/2 sink side. Not long after we had the kitchen done we started getting what I thought was drain smells coming up. This goes away when I push the plug down on the full sink side...

Quick one, The electrician wired my electrics in my new extension. The builder apparently told him they would be getting inspected by a third party (due to a mix up). so he tested and never recorded the results. Anyway he's now coming back to do it, whats involved? I ask as I have since...

Hello, I have had a small extension built with a vertical radiator installed. Only 3 out of the 5 panels get hot. The 3 to the left. The 4th gets slightly warm the 5th almost nothing My system is gravity fed and 10mm microbore feeding each radiator It was drained to fit the radiator and has...

Hi Guys, Looking for a bit of guidance with my extension, please bear with me. I got an architect back in January to draw me up a plan for what is basically a 4m x 3.7m extension. I was quite specific on what I wanted in terms of how I wanted it to look. So he rang building control up and...

Hi I had what could be described as a lean to on the back of the house. Was part of the original house. The water off the house roof was fed onto this little roof which then was fed Into what I assume is surface water drain to the left hand side. I have now had an extension built onto this...