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Help just paid a contractor £535. £150 for the hardboarding (4mm ply) and £90 for fitting the vinyl. the wife paid him, no puns pls, I got home and can clearly see ridges from underneath. after emailing him pics of the ridges he phoned and said that the floorboards were uneven beneath which...

We are looking to build a concrete patio. We decided on this route as we felt slabs or pavers a pain to remove weeds and possible shifting of levels and stubbed toes. We like the idea of a dyed concrete. I got advice and a quote today and wondered if it was correct and a good price. A minimix...

Recently I installed my own attic room but didn't think through the heating enough. The room measures approx. 3m x 8m and the ceiling slopes in to 2m head height. I have fitted a 400w x 300h mm single panel radiator. I have to be careful what I fit as it is supported on battens that was used as...

Hello guys I have a soil pipe coming out the ground and have a run of about 2m to my toilet. I was hoping to use a branch connection as I have to attach more waste into this as well as extend up for an aav. I need to get the 90 degree soil connection as low to the ground as possible, do I...

Hello, I'm in a middle of an attic conversion at the moment and just at the stage of adding insulation and I'm also on the verge of having solar panels installed with a survey being done for it next week. Will the installation possibly cause any damage such as leaks, as these would be hard...

Got the feeling I posted this in the wrong area, all sorted now, I know what insulation i'm installing.

I am building an extension to the rear of my property but doing this via a building notice and my bco isn't giving me much info all he has told me so far is that the depth of the footings should be 900mm from ground level. I have decided to use my existing damp proof as a reference point so am...

I hope someone can help I had an existing kitchen, with the sink waste running into an un-vented 40mm stack, this went through a u-bend. the washing machines waste always had trouble when it was above the sink ubend so now it is connected directly to the top of the small stack, all goes well...

We recently decided to make some changes to our 4 bedroom house. We were unable to sell it and the mortgage, although manageable wasn't really getting paid off. It was an inherited house and we re-mortgaged it to pay off siblings and the existing mortgage, we only wanted to do it up and then...

I hope someone can help or at least recomend a good product. A couple of years ago I changed all the valves on my radiators to TRVs. I thought all was working well up until now, maybe it's because I have now moved into the upstairs of my house but it is real hot. All the valves 10 in all don't...

I have recently fitted a Shower Tray, this shower tray came with a 90mm Shallow Trap. All was well until it came to testing it and I found I had a flood within minutes. My drop is 1:40 and the sink nearby drains perfectly so I guessed it was the trap itself. I removed the internal section to the...

I may have a problem here. I had to run a sanivite system for my washine machine, I was told by saniflo that I can also run condensate into this. So I installed the unit near my boiler but I had to run the 32mm waste up the corner of my wall and then horizontal to my soil pipe. All works well...

Hello, I think I may be a bit thick here but how do I install an inline mains descaler(Fernox Quantomat). It is designed to fit 1/2" 15mm pipes it has a female screw. Is it just a case of using a 15mm compression coupler and one side screws directly and use PTFE tape or do I have to have a...

Hello, I hope someone can help. I am partitioning part of my downstairs kitchen into a bathroom. The bathroom will consist of a shower and basin. At present I have 2 electrical sockets in this room, one at chest height and the other at above head height. I was hoping to blank one of these...

I've been trying to get rid of a clicking noise from my pipes recently. This has got worse since installing TRVs (bi-directional), I have rinsed out all the radiators, added inhibitor and drained all the air, no air seems to be getting into the system, the pump is running ok. I have a small bore...