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Hi all, Currently renovating a large upstairs bathroom & looking at options for the finished flooring. Previously it was tiled but many of them had lifted presumably due to movement (bounce) in the floor and/or not using flexible adhesive? I've been looking at waterproof laminate, does anyone...

Hi all, I need a waste and overflow for this freestanding acrylic bathtub I have recently acquired. The overflow is my area of concern as its about 13mm thick 'sandwich' type construction so the overflow needs to be fully sealed all the way through the hole. Both the random overflows I...

Hi all! I'm hoping to start renovation on my kitchen soon into the new year. The problem is three walls of it are external walls and are 9" solid walls and thus damp penetrates through them (yes someone has tried to inject a DPC lol). I'm not sure what the best course of action is, although...

Surprised this hasn't been asked recently, I have searched & had a quick look through recent posts? Hopefully it hasn't been anyway... I'm currently decorating a bare plaster room, I have applied a mist coat to the walls with Leyland Contract matt watered down 9:1 as per instructions, I'm now...

Hi all, After removing my window boards from this bay window (see pics) I have found the cavity has no insulation despite the rest of this part of the house having a circa 50mm cavity filled with fibreglass. I am wondering if I need to insulate this bay window cavity and if so what should I...

Hi all, My Vaillant Turbomax 828e seems to be doing an odd thing with the way it heats the central heating (CH) circuit as follows: CH demand from thermostat, boiler fires up ok CH circuit heats up as it should until the temperature display on the boiler reaches the setpoint (currently set to...

Has anyone had experience of having a domestic electric meter moved from outside to inside a property? Ours is currently outside in a recessed box, however the cable actually comes up on the inside of the wall & the recessed box is within a solid 9" wall and I believe nearly the entire depth of...

Hi all, Just investigating the rising damp issue in the original part of our house (built pre 1900). We could see that a DPC had been retro-fitted at some point, but this obviously hadn't fixed the issue. After removing a brick (see attached image) it appears the DPM only just cover the base of...

Hi all, Has anyone bought, fitted or have experience of the cheap vertical column rads from the likes of Ebay and Amazon? I'm looking into buying a pair for our living room, branded ones from elsewhere seem to be coming in around £200-£250 each as opposed to as little as £80 for an Ebay job...

Hi all, Just wondering before we throw more money at this boiler if anyone has seen this issue before. I already know that F.28 is failure to ignite, and I have witnessed this happen a couple of times now. Note that this *only* happens when the boiler has not been used for several hours and it...