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Ok we have more or less decided on a Hickory engineered wood floor for our lounge, and I have a couple of questions. As the new floor is going over the top of an existing wooden floor (floorboards), do I need to lay anything down before the new floor is laid. Also, the hickory boards we saw...

My front lawn was 60% covered in moss earlier this year, and I used 2/3 sowings of the granule moss killer and 1 dousing of the soluble moss killer. Now the lawn is almost moss free, but there are large bare areas among the grass. Also the soil is so compacted and with large hollows and bumps...

I would like a reasonable gesstimate on re rendering 3 outside walls from the first floor upto the eaves on a semi detached house. Its an oldish 1930's semi which is built of brick on the outside from the ground upto the first floor, but then brick on the inside which is rendered on the...

We have a 4 year old combi boiler, which has been working well up untill we had some numpty try to fit a water meter to the hot water feed near the boiler and removed the pressure reducer from the cold feed, which caused a few joints to blow etc when we turned the heating on last September or...

Our Ariston combi boiler and CH system was fitted in 2001 and inihibitor was added then. Recently we had to have a new pump and diverter fitted, and AFAIK the boiler was drained. After the job was completed by BG, they went away and all was working ok. Now on here last week, I posted that as an...

Some years ago we had a radiator moved from one wall onto another, by some guy out of the local paper and since then the TRV has not worked, in that it just spins around and does not cool the radiator. I know we should have got him back to correct it but we didn't. I would like to know what is...

Ok, just an update here as to what the problem was when I posted last week about the warm/cold rads problem we had. We had a guy from BG to come and look at the boiler (Ariston Genus 27) and he said it was the pump or heating sensors, which he duly ordered and came back on Monday to fit. Whilst...

I am not sure if this is relevant, but during the summer we had a water meter fitted by a local water company. The guy that initially came to do it wasn't sure where to put it and to cut a long story short, we eventually had it installed outside. Anyway, we have just recently needed the...

We have bought a new sink and mixer taps, which have tials on the underside tapered from 10mm to 12mm then to 15mm over about 12 inches. The old taps had the flexible hoses whith service valves fitted onto the pipes with compression fittings. These hoses come upto the underside of the...

Can anyone work this one out for me and my next door neighbour and tiler. My kitchen floor measures 2.240x 2.673metres, which equals 5.987 sq mtrs. I bought 60 tiles at 333x333, which gives me 6.65 sq meters. There is less than 10% wasted but I am 5 tiles short! How does that work out?

I have my 25mm plywood down and a section cut for a trapdoor to gain access to gas pipes etc. I am going to tile the floor this weekend, but unshure of how to make the trapdoor with the tiles. The plywood is screwed down at the moment, and would it need to secured once the tiles are on to...

My main water shgut off valve is very discoloured, like a greeny/blue colour, and when I open it up again after shutting off the water, therev is a small leak around the spindle of the tap, and each time I have to tighen up a small nut on it. Are the 2 things related and does it matter that...

Ok, I have just finished laying 3 sheets of the 25mm waterproof ply down on new 5x2 joists, which I treated, and put noggins inbetween first. My questions: I noticed that the plywood was a different colour on each side, browny/red one side amd creamy on the other. I have my sheets down with...

I have just ripped out my old kitchen and floor to level al the joists, and found that 3 were rotten, and 2 had big sections cut out of the at the top near one end. Also all the joists were of 2 different sizes, as in some were 4x2 and the rest were 5x2. I have replaced the 3 rotten and 2 cut...

Ok, with almost no plumbing knowledge, except what I have been reading lately, due to major kithchen alterations I am doing, I would like to know what type of fittings to use to extend 1/ the cold water feed for a diswasher 2/ both hot and cold water feeds for a mixer tap on new sink...

I am going to tile our kitchen floor, after I have ripped up the 18mm chipboards and laid down DWP. But as the existing floor is only about 4/6mm below the hallway floor, and if I use 18mm DWP then say about a 8/10mm tile on top, that would make it approx. 24mm above the hallway floor. If I use...

Following my initial posting and replies regarding my sloping kitchen floor, I have found out from another source that the 4x2 joists need packed up with pieces of slate placed underneath in their pockets of the brickwork. So this information being correct, this is what I am going to do. One...

Our existing kitchen floor has been replaced before we moved in to the property some years ago, and I can't help but notice that there is quite a slope on it. The original floor was the usual T&G planks/boards, but for whatever reason, they were pulled out and replaced by the 8x2 floorboards...