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The chip board which was under laminated in our ensuite has some water damage in one small area where the shower was. I want to lay karndean on the floor. Do I need to rip up all the floor in the room, or can I somehow patch the hole, which I made bigger to find the problem? It's a small area...

I've taken up 6 paving slabs as there was a gap opening up. 3 I have taken up with the concrete underneath (and taken off what I can) and 3 which I have managed to peel off the concrete as there was no way I was going to pull out from underneath. I want to re-use the paving slabs so it still...

Hi, How close can two elbow joints be? I want to put the pipe into the wall and need to create a 90 degree turn before coming back to original direction straight away. I am using elbow joints with solder already in them so I just need to heat up. Can I have them up against each other like in...

I've removed some tiles. Is it okay to re-tile onto plasterboard, without the skim on top? Any tips on what I should be doing? Photo attached.

I have a small downstairs toilet which I am tiling. It's only 1.78m long by 0.8m wide. Where the toilet was there is a small bump in the floor. I am laying 45x45cm so 8 tiles will cover the whole floor. On the right half of the floor the floor is flat, but around the old toilet area if I put a...

I have a tile slither (can't think of better term) of about 2.5cm x 5.6cm which will be on the left hand side of the door frame. Am I asking for trouble here in terms of it breaking off? I could theoretically cut another tile so that there will be 5.6x 5.6cm square but actually that would be...

I'm laying floor tiles and the corner of one is on the corner where a waste pipe is. Should I cut around the waste pipe or is it okay to just cut a square off the corner? I can't really actually cut all the way round any-way as there would just be a little 1cm sliver on the left hand side. Also...

Hi, I want to glue tongue and groove mdf panels (from Travis Perkins) onto tiles. What's the best way to do this? Any help much appreciated!

I'm tiling onto concrete floor downstairs toilet. Room is small (using large tiles 45x45cm) and so 8 tiles cover the whole floor. Where I have taken up the carpet and pulled up the carpet gripper there are some holes in the concrete (mainly around the edge but some around the original toilet)...

I have cold water pipe which feeds water to my sink and running along a wall to my toilet. I would like to embed the pipe running along the wall into the wall. It's only breeze blocks. I would like to put an elbow in the pipe so I can then put it into the wall by approximately 30mm, but then I...

I have a water tank in the attic and a gas boiler and an immersion tank. Yesterday I drained the system (including the water tank in the roof) because I wanted to fit some isolation valves which I didn't actually fit. Now one of the taps in the upstairs ensuite won't put out hot water. Nothing...

I am installing wood flooring in the hallway, and then tiles in the downstairs toilet. The wood flooring is about 8mm higher than the tiles. Can I just glue down a marine ply floor in the toilet and then tile on top of that so that it's all the same level? or would cement board be better?

I have a cold water pipe that is running along my wall for my downstairs toilet. I would like to chase it into the wall, so that I can then put tongue and groove over the top without the box at the bottom. Is this okay to do? Will it be a problem if I chisel into the breeze blocks?