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New Pifco oil filled radiator 800w has badly discoloured on one section, any ideas why. Only 4 weeks old.

Hello fellow DIYer's. I'm thinking of refurbishing my stairs by painting them completely and adding either a runner or stair mats. I also have a half landing that currently has floor boards. The idea is to paint all of the stairs and the bullnoses of the half landing and replace the floorboards...

I'm refurbing my bathroom and fitting a quadrant shower tray. One wall will be MR plasterboard to hide the pipes and the other is newly skimmed plaster. I was going to prime the plaster side with SBR with something like this https://www.toppstiles.co.uk/tprod8763/bal-bond-sbr-primer-1ltr.html...

Will be installing a new quadrant shower tray and bath soon. Thought I would add an edge seal to the tray and bath before installing and tiling. After a bit of research I found this product https://aquastrap.com. Seems perfect for the job but not found any first hand comments about it other...

I want to replace all the floorboards in my bathroom with 18mm plywood. My local merchants sells 2 types WBP and softwood structural ply. The WBP is described as not being for structural use but would seem to be the better option for the bathroom being WBP where as the structural plywood says...

I’m in the process on renovating our bathroom and taking out the copper cylinder etc, well not me a plumber. At the back of the airing cupboard is an old 16amp immersion circuit that is no longer used. The immersion heater was removed when I installed the CH about 35 years ago. The outlet is...

I'm knocking my toilet and bathroom in to one room to create more space. The bathroom door and toilet door are at 90 degs to each other with the toilet door opening outwards on to the landing. Really naff layout and equally the toilet door is at an angle to the wall, naff builder. I will be...

Hi I want to line a wall prior to painting as the wall has been previously papered and not good enough just to paint over. We have an opening into a garage conversion that does not have any architrave around it, so I have nothing to cut into. The garage room has been painted direct onto...

Have a strange situation with my central heating. I have an S plan system that has worked well for many years. Had new boiler installed about 14 months ago, Glow Worm with options board. Last week the boiler failed to light, but could hear the valves operating. My plumber did some prelim...

Hi I noticed I wasn't getting hot water, so manually opened the motorised valve so would get flow when CH was on until I could get a new motor. I have a Honeywell metal motorised valve and replaced the syncronous motor with a universal Drayton motor. It fitted fine, but has not solved the...

Hi I currently have a mechanical Honeywell T4160 Thermostat and would like to replace the unit with a digital thermostat a REV100. The current unit is wired as:- 2 - Single Black (Separate cable) 3 - one of a pair of red 1 - second of the pair of red Earth not used. I believe this...