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I like the look of a simple square undermount sink for our utility room, but the budget calls for a cheaper worktop, white laminate, not a solid stone, composite or anything. Would there be any issue over-mounting an undermount sink? All I can see may be an issue, is the neatness of the finish...

I've recently repainted my front door and wanted to replace the cheap nasty looking letterbox with a smarter one, I replaced or polished other door furniture and the latterbox flap really lets it down. The current opening in the (metal) front door fits a plastic liner part of the current...

I converted my garage a few years ago, followed all advice from the building regs officer and did everything by the book, but the room is so cold in the winter and I've had enough! Now I want to get to the bottom of it! The front (old garage door) has a window now, and now 150mm celotex (I...

I've installed a Google Nest Thermostat that I picked up used from CEX. The Heat Link powers up, and the screen powers up by USB cable. All is working, synced, controlling the heating etc... however - If I connect the heatlink T1 and T2 to the screen - using the wiring already in the wall (in...

My internal doors have a different type of hinge to any I typically see for sale. One has a broken plastic part, causing the door to start sagging, so I'm trying to find a replacement for it, before it fails completely and I'm left with a door hanging off! (All the other doors in my house are a...

I'm about to fit a quadrant shower, to replace a dated unit on tiled walls, and I'm going to be using shower wall panels. I've seen one shower tray listed for sale that showed a diagram of the fitting - with the wall panel fitted to the room first - all the way to the floor and the shower tray...

I'm about to tile a concrete floor in a new extension. It's got a concrete floor, rough, not machined smooth. (It's been finished about a year, but it's actually never been tiled on yet, so still bare concrete.) I can't find a definitive answer for whether I should prime the concrete or not...

I'm laying 600x900 sandstone pavers tomorrow, and have seen recommendations for 8mm to 10mm spacing. But Now I'm looking at the cost of grouting them! I'm thinking of much thinner, perhaps 5mm gaps. The edges are quite 'natural' and wavy so it may actually be difficult to even be very precise...

I've removed a rotten decking and am digging out ready for a sub-base right now. Under the decking was a layer of pea-shingle which I've barrowed out ready to dig 200mm or so for type 1 sub base. So now I've got a mound of gravel I need to get rid of, alongside the soil I'm going to be digging...

I've fitted a filter tap for drinking water. It's an in-line filter cartridge on a sink in the utility room, not the kitchen sink where the mains feed comes into the house. The water doesn't taste right. When it was new it was OK when fresh and cold, but when it got to room temperature it had a...

I added a new raditaor to a garage conversion today, probably not the textbook way of doing it, bit I ran 10mm hep pipes to the next nearest rad in the house and used a T to split the feed and return. Anyway, rather than drain the system to fit it, I pulled apart the existing joints , (having...

I'm hoping to fit electric underfloor heating under the carpet of the garage conversion I;m doing. The room is just shy of 6m x 2.6 I think floorspace. I was gong to get about 10m of underfloor heating, thinking I'd lay it covering 5m x 2m of the floor, not worrying about sides of the room...

I recently fitted a new kitchen sink & taps. nothing else has changed in the house, but the flow rate in the whole house isn't what it was. It's not a dribble by any means, but the showers have lost their Oomph certainly. The stop tap is just under the sink, so the kitchen sink tap is the...

I currently have an analogue room thermostat for my house. We've realised that the timer wheel on our heating system is broken (It turns through the hours, but never clicks the system on or off!) And I figured by far the cheaper option would be to fit a programmable room thermostat and leave the...

I'm about to line the inside of the back of my garage to create an office space. (it's double length, but single width, ideal really for converting half of, we're never ever going to put a car in!) Figured I'd use 2x4, will be the right depth for 100mm Celotex. One detail though that my...

I've got a regular TV aerial outside my house, but no DAB antenna, so I've just bought one. Inside the loft hatch I've found (I've just bought the house so its setup is new to me!) an 8-way booster/splitter that shows separate inputs for VHF and UHF, but 8 outputs to sockets, not specifying VHF...

My house has great water pressure, and a good boiler (apparently - it's called a 'Megaflow'). Running a hot tap anywhere in the house at a 'normal' medium flow rate you could be there all day and it wouldn't get hot - you need to turn it on to full power that splashes everywhere like mad...

I'm fitting a new toilet bowl to replace one that got too scaled up to flush properly. The new one is brand new, a spare that a family member had, but the main hole for the flushed water to end the bowl is too small for the outlet part of my cistern to fit into. Are these bits available from...

We have fantastic water pressure at the moment, from our mains water and our hot (megaflow boiler) I've just bought a second-hand water softener that I'm hoping to fit myself, and I'm wondering if it will affect our pressure by a noticable amount? Also, any tips for installing it? Or...

We have very very hard water, and until I recently cleaned out the internals of the cistern limescale in the mechanism had meant many years of constantly dribbling water in the loo. The result is that about half of the toilet rim doesn't have any water coming out, the flush isn't too effective...