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    Tiling onto PVA'd concrete with residual lino glue

    Hi Everyone I'm just refreshing a kitchen and stripped it all back to find glued on lino flooring. Has taken a long while to manually scrape this stuff off and now I am left with bare concrete but there is a sheen of residual glue from the old lino. You could not scrape the glue layer off...
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    Decorative tiles and floor tiles

    Hi all, A couple of tiling questions if you don't mind? 1) We have tiled all our bathroom walls with 60x30, 10mm thick white ceramic tiles. We have left a rectangular strip free where we want to put some red decorative glass tiles in the middle. I bought some mirror adhesive as you can't...
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    rotary hammer drill for chasing concrete wall

    hi guys well tomorrow is the big day where i attempt to chase concrete wall away to fit a manual concealed shower mixer. the final decision is to wrap denso around the pipes and use some foam to secure pipes. my plasterer has been kind enough to lend me a powerful rotary hammer drill...
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    Chasing copper into wall for concealed shower mixer

    Hi guys, I have spent a good deal of time googling and reading forum posts on the question of how to install concealed copper pipework for a concealed shower mixer into concrete walls. The answers vary so wildly that I am none the wiser. I've seen suggestions to run the copper through...
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    15mm end cap - anything else required?

    Hi Guys I ripped the bath out and need to put the mains water back on even though a new bath has not been fitted yet. I have bought 2 15mm brass? end caps (I tried the plastic ones which were crap). They have a little olive in them and a screw top. Is this all I need? How does this end cap...
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    How to lag pipes in concrete feeding external shower mixer

    Hi, We are fitting an external thermostatic shower valve mixer and need to run hot and cold up the wall to the mixer. We have been told by 1 plumber to build a partition stud wall in front whereas 5 other plumbers all say to chisel a route through the concrete wall and lag the pipes. We...
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    How to get rid of black wet mould under bath

    Hi, We are in the process of completely stripping out the bathroom and renewing. I took off the bath panels today and found that under the bath is wet with quite a lot of blackening (mould). The bath is on wooden planks which themselves are on a concrete floor. Don't see any form of...
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    Fixing a small dent in laminate flooring

    Hi, So I have a small problem in that I dropped the iron the other day onto the laminate flooring .. IKEA type light wood stuff and the nose of the iron put a 1cm dent into it. The impact site has the laminate surface depressed and I cannot (don't want to) raise it out for fear of making this...
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