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    Slate white-ish after grouting

    Hello, we recently laid a slate patio. After the builders applied the jointing compound (Gftk Vdw 850-plus), the slabs developed a horrible white hue. When they are wet you don't notice it, as soon as they dry, it's horrible. Nothing compared to what they were dry before the grout was applied...
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    Sticking a threshold bar

    I need to put a threshold bar between the bathroom (tiles) and the engineered wood ouside. They are both perfectly level and there is a gap between. The issue is that underneath I have underfloor heating pipes, which I'm finding very tricky to find, so I'm kind of afraid of drilling into the...
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    Mixing two jointing grouts for patio

    Hello, we are lying a patio with slate and started with Gftk Vdw 850-plus in Stone Grey which we really liked and got it along with the slabs. We initially got a single 25kg tub that was not enough, got a second one but it's still not enough. It's really expensive (plus we need to add delivery...
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    Fitting outside tap

    Hi, I have a super basic question. I have to fit an outside tap to an existing copper pipe. The pipe just sticks out of the wall, currently has a makeshift tap that the builders were using, but it's basically a copper pipe sticking out. I bought what I thought I needed which is the tap...
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    Brick bbq question

    Hello I am having a bbq built in the garden. It will be made of bricks. At about half height there is a base (not sure this is the right word, just to clarify this is not the base of the structure), on top of which we will put the charcoal and then the actual grill. Please see picture for...
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    Help to understand UFH components

    Just out of curiosity I wanted to understand what each component is doing in my system. I have just installed a combi boiler that will heat the HW, as well as UFH in an extension and the radiators in the rest of the house. We wanted to have two zones: one for the UFH and another one for the...
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    Gaps between skirting boards and engineered wood flooring

    Hello A couple of years ago we had our house renovated and put engineered wood over the old floorboards. I think there is some ply, as well as the underlay. Skirting boards were also new. In general its all good but there is one part of the house, my bedroom, where the drafts are a bit of a...
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    Is this considered Permitted Development

    Hello We are In the process of planning a single storey rear extension. We have one already 1.5m long and the plan is to demolish it and build a longer 3m extension. All people told me this would be PD but my engineer has the view that most likely we need planning permission. The reason is...
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    Any chance these contain asbestos?

    Hello Is there a chance these tiles contain asbestos? They are in a front porche and I have just started to remove old peeling ugly paint https://imgur.com/a/LVBPgyA
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    Exterior wood paint inside

    We need to paint a front door and some parts of the stairs inside and we are decided on a particular Farrow and Ball colour. Our builder suggested to get all exterior eggshell (+undercoat). We can split it and get some exterior and some estate (interior) eggshell but it will end up costing...
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    Asbestos in chimney boarding?

    Can this be asbestos? A builder said it definitely is, but our buildings survey did not identify it (he did identify in a different outbuilding, a garden shed). I am very scared now.. it's right there in the living room. We are planning to redecorate soon but still..
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    Help putting back shower valve

    Hello We had a new bathroom fitted 6 months ago, today I was cleaning the shower valves and one of them simply snapped off. It is one of those thermostatic mixer valves. The cartridge is Ok, in fact I can put the valve back and move it and the shower works fine, but the valve is a bit loose and...
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    TrVs not working?

    Hi We moved to this house about 6 months ago, in need of renovation. At the beginning all the radiators worked fine but with the caveat that they were always super hot, the TrVs don't seem to do anything to them. Since then we did all upstairs including new plumbing and radiators -- we left...
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    Help me understand my HW system

    Hi I have a gravity fed system. Standard boiler downstairs, hot water cylinder in first floor, cold water tank in loft. I want to understand how to control the temperature of the water used for different purposes. The boiler has a dial (no temperature settings just dial min 1 2 .. max), the...
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    Water softener installation

    Hi I'd like to install a water softener in our house because it's just too hard. We did our bathroomcompletely new a few months ago and it's a royal pain to keep it nice without cleaning constantly which we don't have time for. Our mains comes out in the kitchen and it's a bit far from the...
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    Wet patch on kitchen wall

    Hello We bought our house about 6 months ago. A building survey was done in which a form of damp was found on the wall of the kitchen -- this is an outside wall. I am attaching a picture taken by the surveyor around 8 months ago. I will upload new pictures later today since the damp seems to...
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    Temporary decoration of floor boards

    Hello We moved to our house a few months ago. It's liveable but in need of full redecoration. Typical semi detached 1920-1930. We have fully refubished the first floor already, including bathroom, landing, bedrooms, floors, plaster, wiring, plumbing etc. We decided to split the renovation in...
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    Temporary solution to board chimney

    Hello, we just moved into a new house. None of the chimneys are in use, in particular there is one which is boarded downstairs with a metal sheet covering the hole, upstairs there was a gas fire. An engineer checked this and had to remove the gas fire because it was unsafe, and now are left...
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