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Evening all, Not a nice post but one that has me baffled. We have 6 toilets. 1 downstairs. 4 on middle floor and 1 on the top floor. It’s a 7 year old house. No water tank in loft etc. Always clean. No animals in house. The top floor toilet, one of the middle floor and the downstairs one all...

Hi All Ok, fitting our kitchen and building in a custom cooker hood. Our range cooker is 110cm wide so the gap between the wall cupboards for a hood is, obviously, 110cm too. Clearly, we cannot fit a 110cm wide extractor unit as there would be no ‘meat’ either side to frame the unit. So, we...

Hi All, I’m happy to install light fittings and fixtures but my wife has recently set her heart on a vintage French chandelier from an antique shop. I took a look and it’s clearly pretty old with no earth and just 2 wires that are the same colour. We live in a 5yr old house so with fully up to...

Hi All We are looking for a quick and simple way to add a lot more light to our hallway. One way would be to have glass panels in the front door. Obviously, replacing the front door is a big investment but we’ve seen several videos (US based) of quick and simple and fairly cheap conversions...

Hi All, I’ve just done my first tiling job - 70sq/m of Roman stone porcelain tiles and so far it’s looking top notch. Next up is the grout and with the cream/buff tile colour we want a pale colour. We are looking at cream/Jasmine colours. We are also aware that staining and dirt could be a big...

Hi All Finally starting to lay our tiles this week and just picking up the last few bits I need. Please can I ask for recommendations for a clip and wedge system. Ideally I don’t want to spend loads but equally want it to work! Any good value brands that you’ve used and that you can buy...

Morning all ok, I have tiles being delivered in a few days and am trying to do a little pre-planning and have a conundrum I could do with your help on. We are laying tiles in the attached pattern. The width of tiles ‘3’ and ‘4’ is 100cm. With a 3mm grout line that would be a max width of...

Hi All, Tiling most of the ground floor in a couple of weeks’ time and am looking at tile cutting options. As I’m doing this over a period of time I’m not sure hiring anything is a suitable solution so was looking to buy something not too expensive. What are your views on this? Has anyone used...

Hi All Ok, so we just finished decorating top to bottom and all looks lovely, skirtings re-glossed etc. However, we have decided that instead of the carpet downstairs we should have gone with our initial feeling and tiled. This means the carpet coming up and me tackling the tiling job. So, my...

Hi Guys I have what I would call a “concrete screed” floor. However, in my investigations around wanting to tile it myself I have come across various issues/questions relating to an Anhydride screed. From what I’ve seen in pics I don’t believe that’s what I have. It looks different and my floor...

Afternoon all, I thought I was on a quest for something fairly normal but it seems to be a near impossibility! I am changing our front door furniture to satin brass and have all the items we need (letter box, letter tidy, spy glass, door chain, knocker, door knob etc) BUT it seems to be...

Hi All This feels like a dumb question but I’ll ask it nonetheless. I’m looking to lay Ardex K39 self levelling compound soon and have my head around everything except one bit, and that’s probably the most important thing When you pour it and use the screed to float it out smooth, how do you...

Evening All, Hoping you can help me out. My wife asked if we could change the front door hinges to satin brass to match the rest of the new door furniture and I glibly said “sure, no problem”. Then I went and looked and a) I don’t recognise this sort of hinge (see pic), b) I’m not sure if you...

Evening all, first post here so please bear with me if I don’t do something right and apologies in advance if so! Basically, we have our heart set on Karndean flooring but, realistically, the only way that’s going to happen is the DIY route. I’m pretty DIY savvy and have laid several types of...