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Hi all. I'm just having my bathroom redone and have removed the wash basin to have the walls replastered. The P-trap was put together with lots and lots of mastic and the trap was attached to the waste pipe with tape! The waste pipe is cast iron but it has this copper fitting attached to it...

Hi all, I needed to pull up some quarry tiles (10 or 11) that run alongside the skirting board in my hallway. Having pulled them up (some have broken), I've noticed that they've been laid on what I think is pure sand. (The property is a mid 1920s Wimpey no-fines house.) All I want is to re-lay...

OK. Current path to my front door is about 4.5" thick concrete with obvious small stone / pebble mix. It looks dated so Ideally I'd like to replace with slabs with some cobble edging. The options in my little DIY head are: Lay slabs over the path (the path is quite level) Pull up the existing...

Hi folks, A bit of advice please. The front door in my hallway has a concrete internal threshold, which is about 1m (W) x 24cm (D) x 3.5cm (H). I bought three 60cm x 30cm x 9mm tiles to cover it. However, when laying down the tiles, I noticed there is a 1cm drop from right to left. Now I did...

Hi all, I have removed plaster to expose an internal (single brick) wall in my living room but I've noticed that the concrete lintel above the doorway has blown. I do want to keep it exposed so would like to replace the lintel. There are four joists running perpendicular to the door but no...