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I'm looking to swap out my bath taps with a bath/shower mixer. But as you can just about see (sorry not the best pics with the gap available) in the photos before we moved in here it looks like something had been leaking for a while and also some serious bodgery was done (no idea what those...

I'm looking to add a thermostatic mixer shower to our bath. I've looked at something like this: Rain shower and hand shower. And would like to pair it with something like this? I'm not dead set on the Grohe tap but from comments on here and reviews they seem to be a good purchase? If I...

Currently around our back garden we've 6ft concrete posts with gravel boards and large (read damn heavy!) gates. Been ok for a while but needs a spruce up so some of the gravel boards are coming out to make way for new fence panels and while I was out measuring Mrs Unseen was having a moan...

I've recently had a new 6mm cable run done in prep for a cooker replacement. All is good with that but connecting to the cooker.. Either I'm being stupid or missing something obvious (and I'm fine with that if I learn something from it!) So from the cooker connection point a 3m run of 6mm T+E...

I'm looking to install laminate flooring in my living room/dining room potentially Quick Step Impressive as it fits the WAF and looks straightforward to install. The part that has me slightly confused is the prep before fitting. The floors are suspended t&g floorboards, in very good shape no...

Currently we have this fencing along our back garden. Not pretty but practical keeping a husky in! At the back are two 6ft x 6ft bloody heavy gates, I can open without too many issues but wife and teenagers just look at me and moan! And getting woken up at 6am to help the wife get her bike...

Well it's near xmas once again and the last minute DIY jobs are here once again.. SWMBO has complained over the last couple of weeks about how cold the living room floor is. Now it's carpeted but it was a cheap carpet due to the work going on in the room at the time. So now she'd like to...

Morning chaps, Quick question, some time ago I posted about my kitchen floor and filling in the gaps //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=219044 I've now been graced with some time off work, and SWMBO has hinted she'd like me to get my arse in gear so I want to check the mix...

Afternoon chaps.. I'm after some advice regarding my kitchen floor. Many moons ago when we first moved in all the old units were ripped out and temporarily replaced as they gave up (kitchen by that point was 20+ yrs old). What we found as we ripped them out was nice cabinet shaped holes in...

Flex comes with all 3 cores insulated, but Twin+Earth and it's brothers all come sans insulation on the earth? Sorry if it's a stupid/daft/dumb question, just had one of those "why don't they...." moments whilst I was fitting the wall lights last week. And if you don't ask you'll never learn...

Morning all (why is it always silly o'clock when I'm on here???) Nearly 12months ago the missus asked for wall lights in the room we were doing up.. Well 12months on, due to various unrelated issues I'm just getting to finishing this little job off.. I've got 2 wall lights that only...

Hi chaps.. Yet another question for the assembled. I'd like to wall mount our 46" lcd, picked up the bracket yesterday from Screwfix but just couldn't get my head around which set of fixings to go with it. It's being mounted on a brick chimney breast (not used/filled in) that has been...

Hi Folks, Following some advice on here (and the nagging of SWMBO) I got cracking with insulating under our ground floor suspended floorboards.. In my humble opinion all has gone well so far, Kingspan TF70 isn't too bad to work with awkward yes getting it thru the underfloor access (I'm...

Hi, I'm looking for advice on my plan to insulate under my groundfloor floorboards. I've trawled the archives/search and some come to a similar conclusion as myself but I wanted to confirm it with the masses. The groundfloor is all suspended flooring with a good sized crawl space (i can...

Well... I took the plunge.. Ordered the boards, battens and polystyrene insulation... There's a few obvious mistakes so far which I'm going to rectify as I go (mainly the missing top plate... Plus an additional nogin as the room is taller than a 2400x1200 board).. Can I just confirm...

Morning.... Mrs Unseen would like some wall lights fitted (before xmas apprently! :( ) in the room I'm trying to dryline (again in time for xmas!). Currently all the lighting is wired loop in and RCD protected. With the light picked the only way I can see of carrying on loop-in wiring...

Afternoon... I'm after some advice regarding plasterboarding our existing building site.. er front room!... All the plaster has been removed over the last few years as various parts were modernised and replaced.. As you can see from the attached pics.. And a door way filled...

I currently have a BT Home monitor (dons flame proof suit and holds the fire extinguisher ready for the flames!) but lately local to us there's been a few break ins and SHMBO is not convinced we're covered, so I come to the people in the know... The BT kit was always going to be a "stop...

First time post so please be gentle (ooer! :lol: ) And please accept my appologies if I'm posting in the wrong place I've just finished pulling down the last of an old lath and plaster ceiling and I'm after some advice in regards plasterboarding it. It's a downstairs living room with my...