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Hi folks, Bit of a "i should probably know" question but ultimately we've refitted the bathroom downstairs, unfortunately our light fitting smashed the old toilet when muggins here forgot to catch it when he was taking it down. Anyway, to cut a long story short, we've now got a closed back...

Hi guys, Currently in the midst of a shower room renovation in a loft conversion. I'm a software engineer by trade but mucking in on some of the DIY jobs. We are fitting the Bathroom panels at the moment and because it's a loft room they have curved out the ceiling. I was wondering what the...

Hi folks, So, we have just inherited our late mother-in-laws bungalow which needed modernising, especially the bathroom. Everything is stripped out and walls back to plaster. I have a couple of questions if I may, firstly i'll explain what we are trying to do - it's will be a rental. On a...

Hi folks, Needing some help here, I stupidly mentioned to the Mrs about boarding the loft out for storage purposes and now she wants to get on with it. I've just been up there to take measurements and all was going well until I saw the thickness of the joists, they are only 1inch thick x 5.5...

Hi Folks, So I'm in the process of replacing a windowsill in our kitchen which had basically every dent, chunk etc missing from it. It was a wooden sill which was coming away anyway. I have taken the sill up today and noticed that below it is basically...bricks and mortar, however the...

Morning folks, Just after some advice, I'm more comfortable with the internal DIY but as the weather improved a couple of weeks ago the missus decided she wanted to change our garden and as such wanted to put stone chippings down on the first third of the garden surrounding the pond. We are...

Hi Folks, Got a couple of questions relating to a DIY Shower Room - I posted a couple of weeks back about the state of the plastered walls, these have now been dealt with and are now sound. So I have a couple of questions, I am putting a 1200x800 shower base across the back wall and will be...

Hi folks, Im after a little advice. We've started renovating our old stinky shower room and ripped everything out. The walls used to be tiled up about halfway, these have since been removed and the adhesive has painstakingly been removed too. As we are on a bit of a budget and it's not the...

Hi folks, just wanting some advice on some fixings for floating shelves. They will only be carrying decorative items up to about 8kg in weight. There will be 3 shelves either side of the chimney breast. One side of chimney breast is 110cm and the other 102cm. I was thinking of going down the...

Hi folks, To save running an additional cable to the external of the house, drilling another hole through the wall etc I was wondering if it's possible and safe to run 2 different PIR Floodlights from 1 fused Spur, in essence running a junction in-line from the house via an IP rated junction...

Hi folks, We have recently purchased a fairly old house (1906), and have high chamfered square skirting boards: I was wondering if anyone knows where I may find a suitable off the shelf replacement or can recommend a company that may do a custom style for us? Thanks in advance

Hi folks, We recently moved into our first home, we were advised that one of the original chimney breasts had been taken out from downstairs to the loft - it has been inspected and has been certified as safe in the loft space and correctly supported. However, for whatever reason (they stated...

hi folks I have recently bought our first house, an old Victorian house with a 36m2 living roomer/diner. In the front of the living room stands a “fake” studded chimney stack, there used to be a chimney here but then they decided to knock it out from the ground up and then supported correctly...

Hi folks, Need a bit of a sense check for a hive installation. We currently have a Vaillant EcoTech Pro 28 with no thermostat fitted and thought we'd go down the 'smart thermostat' route via Hive (I get a decent discount on them). That said I just want to make sure that I have got it right in...