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I’ve got a small leak from my boiler - dripping off the bottom of this valve - which is on the central heating flow pipe. Anyone know what kind of valve this is and what fixing it might involve? Thanks Keith

Morning everyone I need to connect a new 40mm sink waste into this soil stack - due to the fall I need I need to do this in amongst the existing connections. I’d originally thought I could use a strap boss just above the existing joints - at about the 23” mark on the level. But because of the...

Hi. I’ll be fitting an ikea kitchen in our new extension shortly. Wall construction is timber frame w plasterboard - I’ve got the location of the studs marked already. Studs are at 600mm. Ikea uses a hanging rail for wall cabinets. Is six screws into timber sufficient for the weight of a run...

Hi everyone, I've crossed paths with 60s asbestos containing floor tiles in a previous house. Now - in our new house - we've knocked down an old wooden sun room and unfortunately encountered dreaded 9 inch square tiles on bitumen. I've sent samples of tile and bitumen off to be tested. But I...

Hi, I've been donated some solid wood T&G flooring. Trying to work out how usable it is. It is covered in a very glossy finish - polyurethane finish probably? But it also has quite a lot of dinks, scratches etc. The shine is also a bit much. Is it feasible to strip the surface treatment off? A...

We moved into our house last year. We've noticed some issues with the double glazed UPVC windows at the front of the house. - firstly - crazy whistling noises when it's windy. It's so loud we've had several night with little sleep. - then - general condition of the plastic sills and trip...

Morning all (and what a lovely morning!), we've recently moved into a 60s house - and the back garden is about 80% covered in concrete. Our plan is to lift it all, and eventually get the back area turfed. This morning I started lifting some bits of concrete - and found something a little...

Building on a previous thread - I have an existing large flat concrete slab (used to be the floor of a now demolished garage) slightly under grade of adjacent garden. I am putting a new shed/workshop there - and am considering casting a new raised slab (100mm or so) on which the shed can sit...

Hi, we've recently bought a new house - it's a 60s Wimpey house just outside Glasgow. Having asked around I've found that the internal configuration varies quite a lot (ours is quite open plan). I'm interested in understanding the structure - does anybody know if these can be obtained from the...

Afternoon all, We've just bought a house with an old 60s brick garage with asbestos roof. Currently researching costs to get asbestos removed and dealt with. The brick garage is knackered though, and too big. I want to demolish and put a wooden workshop in place (anyone got views on Tiger...

Hi, I need to hang a large glassboard on a lath and plaster wall. The room is fairly recently plastered - and ideally I'd avoid removing plaster to get to the studs. The four fixing points in the glassboard will never line up with the studs I reckon (unless I'm incredibly lucky). I plan to try...

Hi I'm preparing to install engineered wood flooring in our dining room, and at the same time will be preparing the (enormous) fireplace to take a wood burner a some future point. It's a late Victorian house - original floorboards which are at the same level as the constructional hearth. I am...

Hi I'm lining an opened up fireplace/inglenook with hardibacker 500. Manufacturer says this can be done using cement tile adhesive and then mechanical fixings. I'm fixing these directly to brick. I'm a bit unclear on the process. Should i predrill the boards, stick them to the wall, wait for...

Hi we've been in our house about 2 years now, it's a late Victorian mid-terrace. In the back room there is a patch of damp - quite distinct - that has been there (pretty sure) since we moved in. Wasn't noticed at first but when I came to strip the wallpaper I found an area that felt damp (and a...

Hi I'm trying to work out options on how to get hard flooring in the Dining Room of our victorian terrace. At this point the preference is to sand/stain floorboards - but it's going to be bloody cold without some insulation, and we've only got about 2 foot of space underneath. So it looks like...

Hi - I'm looking for some advice on an awkward kitchen extract problem. We've moved into a Victorian Terraced house, and the gas hob in the kitchen is located on the internal wall with no easy access for an extract duct. For various reasons we generate a lot of steam from our cooking (including...

Victorian terrace - confused about roof structure! Hi I'm investigating how to go about putting a loft hatch with ladder into our house. It's a terrace from around 1900, two rooms downstairs, three beds up. Whole house is about 4.5m wide and about 8m front to back on the main structure. It's...

Hi, we've just moved into a house which has a Worcester 30si - controlled with a MT10RF programmable thermostat. Unfortunately the controller clock has stopped working (although the radio link is still OK). I want to find a replacement unit - but am trying to work out my options: 1. can I buy...

Hi, got a problem with my Baxi 105he. I've installed some new taps in our house - kitchen a couple of years ago, and bathroom washbasin at the weekend just gone. Problem I'm having is that when running the kitchen hot tap it doesn't fire up the boiler, or has to be stopped and restarted a...

Hi I just wanted some advice on putting in some fitted shelving. We have an alcove in our bedroom, beside the chimney, about a 1.5m wide and depth about 40cm. The room is north facing, although the external wall ourside the alcove faces west. We have had a very small amount of condensation...