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I had my bathroom tiled over the summer. A week before Christmas I noticed that one of the tiles by the bath is loose, and a couple of tiles have hairline cracks. Of course the tiler did not respond to my attempts to contact him so I need to fix it myself. The tiler grouted between the bath...

A little hard to describe but I just went to put some washing on and the water stop-starts repeatedly. I'll probably call the legendary local repair guy but anything I should check first? Turned off and on again etc already.

Seems like every time I go to put something on the wall I have trouble. Either the plugs are too long, the holes turn out too big, I can't seem to drill into the wall properly, or everything comes out crooked even though I measure and check everything with a level. Tonight I tried to install a...

There is a hole in my cast iron soil pipe. Fortunately it's well above where any, er, material would be. I had planned to get the whole thing replaced but when the plumber came around to do it he told me it was actually in pretty good shape and didn't need to be done. However it does have this...

I've got a small area in my bathroom (under the soil pipe) where there is no plasterboard or tile, just brick. There's a small gap to the outside. I bought a can of "exact gap" spray foam with the intention of filling the gap, but I also want to put in a plasterboard patch, then a tile...

I've got a small area in the kitchen ceiling to patch due to a leak in the bathroom above. I ordered my materials to be delivered but when they arrived I didn't get the jointing compound I ordered. However I have a big tub of One Strike filler on hand. Would that work as a substitute with paper...

I've just had a lot of old rubber pipes replaced with copper. There used to be a cupboard on this wall that covered the pipes and the air brick but it was water damaged so it has gone. We're planning to get the kitchen redone next year sometime but I'd like to cover these up and put up a...

Newly fitted shower screen leaks like crazy. I've read in several places that there should not be any silicone on the inside, but the fitter ran a bead on the inside bottom part of the seal. Could this be part of my leaking issue? Should I remove it? Water is going down the wall on the outside...

Getting my bathroom redone has turned out to be a cursed project. Every few days something else goes wrong. The new pipes that lead to the bath taps started leaking overnight, dripping through the ceiling below. Fortunately ? the floorboards are still partly up so I could see where the leak is...

Just had a new steel bath installed but despite the description saying it is the same thickness as the old one it seems to flex a tiny bit when I stand in it. I'm wondering if I should find a way to add a bit of support in the middle, but the plumbing under it is somewhat complicated. I swapped...

So I just got a brand new Ideal Standard Ceraline basin mixer tap installed today, and the lever doesn't turn all the way to one side. It's supposed to turn left and right for hot and cold but it only turns slightly to the hot side. Is it likely to be a defect, or an adjustment that needs to...

I want to put skirting on three walls, each one slightly different. Wall one is plaster over a horrible cardboard paramount partition, wall two is brand new dot and dab plasterboard over the brick wall, and wall three is also dot and dab on brick, but has been tiled down to the level where the...

So I misunderstood what I was paying for in my bathroom renovation and I need to figure out how to get this wall ready to paint. It was once two small rooms and the wall is made from that egg crate stuff. The original door frame is still there, filled in and with this mesh stuff you can see...

So what was meant to be simply removing tiles from the wall in the bathroom has ended up being back to brick, as the underlying plaster was falling off the wall. My original expectation was that the existing plaster could be smoothed over and painted and that would be it, but it will obviously...

I'm in the process of ordering everything for a bathroom renovation and was planning to buy Karndean Knight LVT to install myself. The room is about 2.75m2. The current floor is made of hardboard nailed to the floorboards, with peel and stick tiles from Poundland that I put down many years ago...

I've managed to get this far but now I don't know what to do next. This tap has been getting increasingly hard to turn off all the way so I'm trying to change the washer. I'm sure I've done it before but now I can't figure out how to take it the rest of the way apart to get to the washer...

I need to replace my kitchen tap and I would like to get the kind that has a pull-out sprayer and a single lever on it. We have a combi boiler -- does that require the kind of tap with two handles to keep the pressure up? I dimly recall having some trouble with installing the current one and...

This just started a day or two ago but it got really bad this morning. When I'm running the hot water in the kitchen mixer tap it cuts out once the water gets hot. In order to keep it going you have to turn it on more, but if you leave it it will turn on and off again very rapidly. What should...

I just bought my first pressure washer and in reading the manual it has a dire warning about not connecting it to the regular water supply without a specialist backflow preventer. I did a lot of research before I finally bought a washer and this is the first I've heard of this. Is it something...

I have a click lock type laminate floor (bevel loc from B&Q, about 12 years old) that has a few damaged planks. The worst ones are in the middle, of course. I do have a couple of boxes of extra planks but not enough to redo the whole room. Originally the idea of being able to replace planks...