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I've been trying to get my 22m chipboard floor (on joists) flat in two rooms and a hallway of the 1st floor, so I can lay a floating click engineered floor. There is one high spot left in the hallway , which is partially over a steel I-beam which i think is why board is bent out of shape. I...

So I’m fitting 14mm engineered click flooring, floating on 3mm underlay. i want to put a matwell by the front door. Looking out toward the front door there is a bathroom door on the left , hinge side nearest the front door (the door is off in this pic) . I was looking at 40mm wide oak L sections...

I want to put some trim along the top of tuis stringer, but this part has 3 sections and it would look better and be easier if I reduced it to two sections. Is it safe to trim the part above the green tape off the top of the stringer? It would be up to 8mm at most.

I put yellow grit on my wall and a layer of bonding on the lower half to level it (it curved) . I PVA’d the wall next day 2:1, twice then did a couple of coats of multifinish. The section over the bonding bubbled alot after the 2nd coat, and I had to wait ages to get rid of the bubbles at all...

So I’m reskimming this wall, I rolled yellow grit on it first and then levelled it up with some bonding (wall was curved) . Before I skim with multifinish tomorrow, should I PVA the bonding or shall I roll some more yellow grit on it?

So I have these click engineered boards that are 2200mm x 180mm, and 14mm thick. I’m laying them on a chipboard subfloor on joists on the 1st floor. The chipboard is sound and mostly flat. The company i bought the boards from recommended 3mm rubber crumb underlay with a silver vapour barrier...

I need to skim this wall after replacing the corner bead. Its already skimmed and painted with matt emulsion which seems sound. I’ve sugar soaped and rinsed the wall. What else should I do before skimming with multifinish? Do I need to key it and PVA or something like that

I have a walk in shower with this drain, which is not sealed at all along the back edge and the left end. There is a void visible, which water is potentially going into. The drain flexes downwards if I press it on the left side. The shower is on the ground floor, and I haven’t found any damp in...

my fence is on top of a sleeper retaining wall and the sleepers aren’t even heights. The gravel boards havent been fitted right and they’ve gradually got crushed and popped out from under the fence, which is distorting the fence in places. What will happen if I remove them? Not sure if theyre...

I opened up this double switch to add an earth wire from backbox to faceplate, and a wire came loose , the one I’ve highlighted in pink. I thought it went in the common at top left so I put it back there, but when I turned the electric back on the circuit breaker was triggered. Then when I took...

Do I need to put mesh tape into the corner edges of the wall I’m about to skim? Also can I skim over the areas I’ve filled with easifill or do I need to pva first?

I’ve got metal faceplates on all my light switches and after taking a few off to decorate, it looks like none of them are earthed even though there is a place to attach a wire. There are some earth wires in the back boxes. Some back boxes are plastic, and some are metal. I don’t think the metal...

I have a bathroom above a shower room, sharing a soil stack. When I moved in there was a bad smell in the attic and black mould above the soil stack which was venting open into the attic. This didn't seem right so I fitted an AAV in the top. However, since then there is a bad smell in both...

This floor was replaced recently because the joists were not level and the boards were in poor condition. The joists have been levelled with additional timber, and the new 22m chipboard is glued and screwed in place (although in this room I can’t see as much glue in the cracks, i think they must...

I’d like to upgrade my patio with flagstones of some kind. Currently its concrete pavers layed onto grey gravel and probably sand. In the area highlighted top right the patio has sunk by up to 10cm. There is a sleeper retaining wall at the top and right. I want to extend the patio all the way...

I have a 1.6m high retaining wall , 4m across, at the end of my garden, made of 2.6m x 125mm x 250mm sleepers which may be pressure treated or reclaimed , wedged into steel I-beams. They are layed directly onto the soil and soil and rubble behind the wall is directly in contact with it, no...

I just looked under my cooker and the installers left a junction box to what I assume is the cooler lying on the concrete floor. Is this safe? It says 30amp 3 terminal on it.

I just had a couple of radiators moved and pipework chased into the block a bit. A section of the dot and dabbed plasterboard has been removed. I’m not sure how to go about repairing this - I was thinking, wrap the pipes in something and then dot and dab over the whole area with as few pieces...

So I have a combi boiler and two zones, one is underfloor heating and the other goes around 9 radiators. There has been alot of black sludge blocking the heat exchanger the last few years. I am planning to get a filter on the system and I was recommended the Magnaclean Pro 2. However I dont...

I have a combi boiler that has no mag filter and the heat exchanger is getting full of crap from the system, which is costing me money (about £130) to get cleaned every year. I had a couple of plumbers round, one said he could fit mag filter for £300, which I assume would be on the flow, since...