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Hi When it rains the water is coming in underneath our front door frame. the front door frame butts up level against the concrete below it and so the water is coming in through the gap betwen the frame and the concrete. In the long term we will need to replace the frame and front door but...

Hi. We have a toilet which I am very happy with which as far as I can tell has a horizontal waste outlet. Now, if I remove the toilet so as to tile underneath it what should I be prepared for? is it as simple as taking the bolts out from the floor and loosening the waste outlet? I read somewhere...

I have some redidrivers. The screws that come with them only go in a few mm. Is this right? When the redidrivers are put in place does this screw go deeper? If so how, when there is no thread inside the redidriver? Do I just force it?

I am going to put up shelves on a plasterboard wall and a solid wall. I am not sure what fixings I should use, any advice would be great! The solid wall is going to have IKEA shelves on it and will hold about 15kgs of books. Its brackets are at the very ends of the shelf with one hole for...

I replaced the cover to a double socket plastic mounting box. Unfortunately the thread through which the fixing screw goes snapped (I don't know how!). The thread seems to be part of a plastic section separate from the actual mountiong box. It slides along inside the box. Is it possible to...

I am currently tiling a kitchen splashback using 10X20 tiles (brick shape) that have bevelled edges. There are two double wall sockets that I have to tile around and wondered how I should approach this to get the best finish? I was thinking of tiling behind the edges of the socket face but this...

I am planning on tiling a splashback in my kitchen. At present the surface is plasterboard with a couple of coats of paint on top (no paper). Can I tile straight onto this? I keep reading in DIY books that I have to strip the paint and then use PVA so that the adhesive has something to adhere...