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Hi, I've recently carefully dismantled our old garage roof and building. I've managed to dispose of the garage shell but am now stuck with 10 sheets of 142x130 asbestos roofing. I want to either dispose of this at the local dump or have it collected. Are there polythene asbestos bags this...

Hi Got called by a customer as their bath gurgles every time they flush the loo. I went to the loft, removed the durgo valve, flushed the loo and hey presto, no gurgling so I thought the valve must have jammed. Fitted them a new one and the gurgling is back!! Thought it must be a blockage...

Hi All, Got to change a leaking JG Speedfit Underfloor Heating manifold for a customer due to it leaking. I have concerns that the pipe connections used by whoever installed the job used may also be leaking. However, I do not recognise this pipe, has anybody seen anything similar? Why they...

Evenng All, I've got a bathroom renovation job for a customer. They've asked for a recessed shelf in the shower. Having stripped everything back I've found the walls to be breezeblock - how deep can I make the shelf safely without a lintel and if they want it deeper what lintel do you suggest...

Hi All, I'm fitting an external shower valve, one part of this fitting has the valve screwed onto it, what does the 15mm fitting screw into on the wall. There is nothing in the box for this or in the instructions and Victoria Plumb don't know!!! Many thanks Screwed!

Hi All, First of all, hats off to all pro tilers, it is hard hard graft!!! I bought a very nearly new TS60 off of eBay and to get me started had a job in my wife's aunts lean too (a whole world of pain). I lost so many tiles on cuts as the breaker would shatter the tile on the right hand side...

Hi All, Got a pair of these running off of a HK980 amp. Had a BBQ at the weekend and was running them fairly hard most of the day - not full blast but louder than I've ever normally run them. After a few hours one of them just gave up the ghost, no sound from it at all. Swapped the channels...

Hi All, I know it sounds strange but I have been asked to tile my wife's aunts lean to floor! The lean to is of pvc conservatory (about 20 odd years old) type with a screeded floor that they wish to have tiled. They have complained of water coming up through the floor, however I suspect it may...

Hi All, Some of you may remember my previous post, in brief....I have recently passed my C&G Professional Tiling Qualification, my C&G Level 2 plumbing and have very recently passed my BPEC Gas Foundation Course. My next step is to get out and start building up my gas portfolio. Unfortunately...

Hi All, I hope this isn't against forum rules. I'm soon to be made redundant - this is coming as no surprise to me as I have been negotiating a way out for some months. As I knew I would soon have an opportunity, I have taken the plunge and recently completed my C&G Level 2 in plumbing with the...

Hi All, Have recently passed my C&G Level 2 and am shortly to start on my gas. I'm currently out doing small jobs at the weekends until I finish work and start learning the plumbing ropes full time. I'm starting to build up my tool kit and at the moment only have some cheap adjustable spanners...

Hi All, After the relative success of laying my first patio - 40m2 of Indian Stone, I now want to have a go at doing our driveway. I'm just at the planning stage at present, not 100% sure of if, or when to tackle it!! Is block paving easier than slabs as you lay onto sand rather than a...

Hi, We currently have a Salus wireless thermostat wired to our Vaillant boiler, unfortunately it's completely hopeless and even yesterday during our mini heatwave the heating was on full blast!! Having had enough of it I've decided to replace it with the Honeywell 5+2 wireless thermostat, as...

Hi, I want to add some loft lights...in our loft. There is one light at the moment on a fixed pendant, this is situated centrally above the loft hatch. I want to add 2 more lights to each far end of the loft. What would you say would be the easiest way to do this when the switch and...

Hi, Tried to iron something today and the iron didn't work. Popped down to Robert Dyas and bought a brand spanking new one and....that doesn't work either. I'm no mathmatician but the chances of it being the irons themselves is slim and so I think it is the electrics. I've tried all...

Hi All, The Mrs has decided on same very fancy pants glass mosaic tiles from Fired Earth for our shower room. Whilst these may look the dogs danglies, I feel I am going to have a mare drilling into them to put the shower screen up. I've bought some glass drill bits from Screwfix and will...

Hi All, I'm half way through putting a new shower room downstairs, the room is bare at the moment as the walls have just been plastered, next is to ply over the floorboards. My question is, we have a 800 x 1200 shower tray to be fitted, do I bed this on cement on the floorboards, on the...

Hi, Still getting my head around the whole plasterboard/tanking vs backer boards in a shower area. Basically I have one wall that is already plasterboarded and skimmed, the other wall adjoining this is for me to build over some pipes to box them in. This is the corner where our shower is...

Hi All, What exactly is "tanking"? I want to tile straight onto plasterboard (not green back, just ordinary). Should I tank this or overboard with aquapanel - is it possible to attach aquapanel directly onto plasterboard? The room had already been overboarded so seems silly to rip it all...

Hi there, We've constantly had issues with our Drayton wireless receiver losing the signal from the stat. This time it's given up altogether, after googling this it appears to be a common fault with the Draytons. I've therefore decided to go for the Salus RT500 as it seems extremely...