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Abouty to install a replacement WC, and wanted to utilise 'internal overflow' rather than connecting the external one due to lack of an outside wall to take a pipe through.... On looking at the plastic syphon, I couldn't see where the internal overflow was - I was expecting to see some sort...

[Starting a new topic for this on corgiman's advice :)] I read on some previous posts here about using an Insuduct as an alternative to bringing the water supply pipe into the property below ground. (I'm shortly to embark on waper pipe replacement, and the idea of hanging down a 2ft 6 hole...

This is about the ceilings in a house we're about to move to - they seem basically sound, just very cracked. They've also got a strange effect created with shallow wood batoning fixed to the the lower surface of the ceiling, in a pattern reminiscent of half-bond brickwork, where each rectangle...

We've got an open vented central heating system with a F&E tank in the loft and feed and return pipes to all the radiators. There's currently a couple of bottles of sludge remover in the system, which has been doing the rounds for about a month, and now needs to come out and have an inhibitor...

I've got a heated towel rail which is fitted in parallel with a radiator in the bathroom (the pipework tees off below the radiator flow/return pipes and goes into the towel rail valves). There used to be a blockage somewhere in this, which meant that the top couple of inches never got warm water...

Hi, I've got an old shed which is going to be taken apart and reconsituted into a kids play house. At the moment it's got a (faded) light brown wood stain on it, but I'd like to paint a lighter colour. I've got two questions about the practicalities of this..... 1. What would I need to use...

Hi, The washing machine in my kitchen plugs into a socket under the counter. On the wall above the surface, there is a switch (on/off, red LED, not fused though). I notice that it's recommended to fit a fused connection switch if installing this sort of socket hidden under a worktop...

I'm having some fairly bad problems with some wood I bought last week. I'm making a small cabinet, and bought all the wood from Wickes. (Previously I've gone to a timber yard, but the nearest one recently closed down). This was standard PAR pine stuff. Most of the planks (which are either...