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I plumbed in our water softener and on the whole it works OK, but I'm wondering if there are any changes I could / should make to improve the water pressure. We have good mains pressure, and the softened water feeds everything except the kitchen cold water and an outside tap. The hot water is...

We're doing a whole bunch of renovation on our house, and we keep being let down by electricians either not answering the phone, not turning up to give us a quote, or coming to look and not sending us a quote for the work. Meanwhile, other stuff is moving along and we've got plasterers etc...

I need to run cable between my garage and the consumer unit in the house. There's a small doorway through from the loft space above the garage into the upstairs of the main house, as can be seen in the first picture. The second picture shows the outside of the garage roof joining on to the wall...

I'm planning on creating a drop ceiling for our living room (1970s house), so that we can have a shadow gap + LED strips around the edge, install some LED downlights, soundproof insulation, and a couple of ceiling speakers. There's a bedroom above and you can hear the TV when it's loud. I was...

We were originally going to get vinyl in our kitchen, so we overboarded the floorboards with 6mm plywood, and have fitted all the units on top. We've now decided to get laminate flooring in the hallway and through into the kitchen (3 bed semi with the hallway running through a doorway to the...

I've noticed a couple of things in our loft and I'm not sure whether or not they're serious or OK, so I'll list the things below and hopefully get some advice. Some background on the house - It's a late 1950s / early 1960s semi detached in Manchester, UK. The previous owner hadn't done much to...

I'm plumbing in the pipework for our bathroom, all 15mm copper for a standard bathroom (toilet, basin, bath & shower, all fed from mains / combi boiler). For the last part, connecting the bathroom pipework up to the hot & cold feed, I was thinking of using this...

We're renovating our house and are currently figuring out how to do the bathroom. We took it back to the brick and had it all plastered (plasterboard + skim). Our next step is to sort out the boxing for the shower. It's a wall mounted shower, but unfortunately the brick wall is a very thin, non...