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In my summer house I have a soil pipe going underground through the concrete base and down the garden... at a gradient of course. I'm thinking about adding an electric shower in the back room, along with a toilet and extractor fan. The brown soil pipe sticks out from the floor... the flooring...

Hi, Ceiling is rough looking but not peeling. It's been painted over a few times. Should I tape cracks with mesh, paint External PVA/SBR 2 coats then skim as normal? Obviously checking first if any of it is peeling AKA run a scraper across quickly but not scrape everything off? Thanks

I'm building a lean-to but the only place I can anchor it on the house is a concrete lintel that spans the entire width of the house. Problem is I could only drill 40mm into the concrete before I hit a steel beam. What would be the best way to anchor? I'm trying to attach joist hangers so the...

I need 50mm rockwool external insulation and was originally gonna get this one: Duel Density but I rang rockwool and they told me I need Rainscreen Duo slabs which are out of stock pretty much everywhere (or minimum order 12 packs). All I'm doing is screwing it onto a wooden outbuilding over...

Hi, I recently switched to a new Virgin Superhub 3 and around the same time the Heatlink stopped working. I have reconnected to the new router on the thermostat but it just won't connect to the Heatlink. Pics: There is no light at all on the Heatlink. Have checked L + N which is showing 240v...

I battened the Artex ceiling in the bathroom and wondering whether I should staple some plastic on before screwing the plasterboard up? Here is a pic: Will be using non-foil-backed PB, skimming, then non-silk emulsion. Thanks.

Just installed 35mm plasterboard back boxes in my summer house obviously compromising the 15mm sound panel + 3mm plaster and bubble foil vapour barrier. Is there any type of putty I can stick into the back boxes to try get some noise isolation back? I've seen some stuff used before in...

I literally moved the light a few inches forward and all 3 cables needed extending. One of the cables I replaced... another one I might be able to replace as it goes into the toilet room behind so only through 1 joist. The switch line needs extending though... which crimps do I need to buy is it...

They are there to strap down the roof... prevent it from blowing off. They won't need to be accessed. Need to figure out a low-profile way of covering them. Was gonna box them in but maybe that will stick out too much, any ideas? Curved mesh and bonding to bury them? Pics: Thanks

OK so I started boarding over my room Artex ceiling... which happened to be completely warped so had to wedge battens and use string to make everything perfectly flat before boarding. Now instead of plastering the ceiling which was supposed to be today's job a voice in my head got me to pick up...

Weird question. I'm going to route out a channel in the underside of a shelf and hot glue an LED strip light into it. I then want to run silicone in the channel to fill it completely to the top but it has to be silicone that is not totally clear, but not white either (shelf is pine brown), so...

Need to order the consumer unit for my garden shed and thinking about the MCBs to use... It will be run off the house consumer unit... currently have a 32A MCB spare, in 6mm cable all the way to the exterior SWA terminal - from then on it is buried 4mm SWA (10m length) up to the shed. For the...

Hi, I will be over boarding my Artex ceiling with plasterboard soon but first was wondering if I could cut long rectangles out in the original ceiling and stuff mineral wool in between the joists as the ceiling is very high and room can't retain any heat (dissipates straight through the roof)...

Hi, still in a predicament on my exterior summerhouse insulation. Initially bought Celotex 30mm but was told the foil acting as a vapour barrier could cause mould underneath. Walls are currently (from inside to outside): Plasterboard > Foil bubble wrap VCL > rockwool + 4x2s studwork > 2x 12mm...

Yesterday's job was putting an electrical cable into a ceiling. After cutting the access and screwing back on I taped it with orange scrim tape... then some Easy Fill, then paper tape... then some Easy Fill again. Are there any negatives of using mesh AND paper in one application? Would it be...

Hi. Doing the outside of my summer house. Interiors are plasterboard + foil bubble wrap underneath the PB, then rockwool insulated 4x2 frame, then OSB on the outside. Should I use 18mm OSB or double board in 11mm? I'm trying for sound insulation so wondering if the extra 4mm will be worth it...

Deciding what lights I want in an outbuilding where the ceiling will be stuffed with rockwool. Would it be a fire hazard to have downlights surrounded by rockwool? Even LED ones? I'm trying to get this room sound proof so priority is in the rockwool rather than the lights. Cheers.

I just noticed the outbuilding I'm building walls are side-to-side out of plumb. Meaning that if you stand in front of it from the outside and look straight on both left and right walls lean to the right. I noticed this when I was cutting out the purple sound panel and the top ended up being...

I did the plastering about 2 weeks ago but because it's cold there are still some dark patches in the corners. I put a heater in there yesterday for 20 mins then closed the door for the whole day and that seemed to work but the corners are still dark. Really desperate to move on as I have time...

Hi. Laminate flooring is going in kitchen around the units. The flooring will be laid just past the plinths. How are the cuts done around the units? For example around the end panels etc...? It's a small kitchen and I really don't wanna leave a stupid size expansion gap at the units - like how...