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    Removing tiles/retiling under UPVC door

    I have removed nearly all of the old tiles from my kitchen but there are a few shards clinging to the bottom of the external door (uPVC). As far as I can tell the tiles go all the way under the threshold to where the outer uPVC frame meets the threshold. If I cut all the grouting off from where...
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    Corner of two sets of lath - stud is behind the corner

    The plaster was coming away on this wall so I've stripped it all away. I now want to attach plasterboard but at the corner where the two walls meet the stud is behind the level of the right hand wall. When I come to try to secure the plasterboard, I don't know how I'm going to secure the edges...
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    Plaster crumbling around failed patch on brick wall

    I'm doing up a place where there has clearly been some crumbling plaster on brick and it looks like the previous owner has tried to patch it up with a combination of a cut of plasterboard and some of that wall repair gauze, however it's still crumbling and the patch clearly was not up to the...
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    Removed a sink and want to keep using the waste inlets for dishwasher

    So I have something like this and currently there is no sink connected so the top part is open. Until I fit the new sink I want to be able to continue to use the dishwasher but I imagine there is potential of some waste coming out through the top. The diameter of the thread inside the connector...
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    Air bricks - trying to find where my cellar meets ground level

    I'm living in a house with a cellar which currently doesn't have any air bricks. I want to install some but I have no idea where the cellar wall meets the outside world. Using a masonry drill, I started drilling a hole about two bricks down from the ceiling of my cellar and have got about 30cm...
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