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Today I noticed my neighbour's hopper was overflowing, even though it wasn't raining. Then I noticed the water appeared to be steaming, although admittedly it was chilly. Then I noticed it comes from a pipe near their bathroom and I started to wonder. Are they drainging thei bath into the gutter??

I'm having a new kitchen installed. There are sockets on the wall already, but two of them will now have cabinets placed over them, so I need two surface-mount sockets inside the cabinets now, in front of the existing wall sockets. Electrician has quoted £280 for two surface mount sockets and...

I hired a scaffolder to put some up so I could point my chimney stack. He put it up while I was out and I discovered he put in only one platform and it's too high for me to reach with my 25ft ladder. When I rang him to ask him to put up a ladder or a lower platform with access, he said "why do...

I need to fit a towel rail which has normal 15mm valves. The pipes in my house are 10mm plastic microbore. Presumably I need some kind of reducer fitting, but do I need to use some kind of insert in the end of the plastic pipe to stop crushing?

Shot in the dark but the historic tall ship Zebu (in Liverpool) is desperate for a qualified electrician to install wiring ready for a new eco-powered electric motor and sailing sundries. It needs to be signed off so they can get further lottery funding. Thought I'd spread the word...

I want to make a short of pneumatic spud gun / pop gun thing, so I'd like to find a plastic pipe that will fit snugly inside another pipe to create a piston. I'm not very knowledgeable about what sorts of pipe are available (and suppliers websites never give exact internal and external...

I've bought a set of bath mixer taps (Screwfix 28552) which has 1 inch threads on it. How do I connect this to my 15mm speedfit pipes? I was expecting to be able to buy flexi hoses that would do this but I don't see anything that looks suitable?

Can you put a regular pendant light in a bathroom if it is outside zone 2?

Can you reuse plastic compression fittings? Like, I want to fit a new basin, can I reuse the old 32mm trap?

Is it usual to fit your floor covering before fitting bathroom furniture like vanity units, or fit it afterwards and cut around everything?

Question is in the title! Having trouble finding a bath waste for my new freestanding (but close to the wall) tub. Can you cut chrome ones to length? Or where can I find a white plastic one that can be cut to length?

Can anyone recommend a bath waste set? Preferably the ordinary kind rather than the pop up kind. All the ones at Screwfix seems to have poor reviews for rusting.

When I bought my house the original large bathroom had been partitioned and turned into a small bedroom and tiny bathroom. I want to remove the partition and make the whole thing into a big bathroom again, i.e. losing the small bedroom. Among the sale documents was a bit of paper provided by...

I need to remove a towel radiator to make way for renovations, though eventually I will replace it. What's the procedure? Whole CH runs off the combi boiler, everything uses plastic speed fit, and the towel radiator is upstairs. Do I cap off the two ends or join them together? With what kind of...

I haven't done any plumbing before, so I'm still learning about this stuff. If I want to add a new 40mm pipe (bath waste) in the position shown in red, it looks like I can't easily add a new strap boss because there's no virgin pipe to attach it to, because that funny coupler thing is in the...

I'm contemplating replacing my bath with a shower, and I really like this one. However, there's a good chance I'm going to have to raise the tray a bit to accommodate the waste over the joists. Presumably a ply top over some battens (timber floor) Anyway, my question is, what would you cover...

Does anyone know where to get off-white satinwood paint? (I don't want brilliant white) I was previously using Moonlight White gloss from Wilko, but of course it turned yellow. :(

Does anyone know where I can get these tactile blister pavers as a DIYer and not a contactor? I'm talking specifically about this brick type, not the generic square slab type.

How come laminate can be layed on the floor completely floating, but engineered wood needs to be nailed down, even when both use a locking system?

Here's a question that doesn't really go anywhere: do you think carpet is generally cheaper from the big chain stores, or from little independent retailers? I mean, groceries are nearly always cheaper from big supermarkets than corner shops, but DIY stuff is usually more expensive in B&Q than...