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Hi Tony, to be fair I'm actually going to take the water pipe out and get a new one tomorrow along with a new standard tap without a double check valve and install a inline double check valve just after the isolation valve so that will be sorted. I shall clear all of the silicone out of the...

Hi Tony thanks for your reply. Yes I fitted a isolator valve and the non return valve is built into the tap. I've just had a look tonight and there is some green staining where the silicone has contacted with the copper, the silicone has turned green too. Trouble is I went a little mad...

Hi Guys Yesterday I installed my first outside tap in my kitchen, it's the solid 15mm copper type which has a union backplate. After watching a few online videos just to make sure I was doing it right I used clear general purpose silicone sealant as I pushed the copper pipe into the...

Hi All Need a little advice on hanging kitchen wall units and an extractor hood on a dot and dab wall. Just had my wall re-done in my kitchen however the builder has used dot and dab plasterboard against the wall (which I'm assuming is Thermalite or concrete block) Problem I've got now...

Just an update for you all, electrician turned up this morning and wanted to run in a conduit on the outside of the bathroom wall, i told him that wasn't happening and agreed to sink the cable into the wall, however he's only taken the plaster off, it's not very deep at all and when they plaster...

Are they no good then? They supplied that for free so I'm not complaining, plus it's fully covered by them should anything go wrong. Anything I should be worried about?

The electrician did say he might struggle to fish a new cable into the capping, but I'm going to ask him to try that first. On the other side of that wall is the top of the stairs/landing, (the consumer box is under the stairs) failing the fish he wants to run a surface mounted conduit on the...

Yes they have drilled into the cable fitting the shower :/ Theres two cables mate, ones going from the consumer box going up the wall where the shower in mounted then into the loft, then that connects to the shower switch pull and another cable coming back down the wall, it's the one going...

Hi Everyone, I'm currently having a bathroom installed by a private housing trust, theres been problem after problem and it's been ongoing for 3 weeks now, they come to fit the shower today and somehow the plumber has managed to drill straight into the 14mm cable that was fitted a couple of...

Hi Everyone, I took a radiator off a couple a weeks ago to make it easy to decorate and also make painting the radiator easier etc. I followed some straight forward guides when i removed the radiator, such as turn off central heating, close the the thermostatic valve and bleed valve and...

Hi John, the shower cable is clipped with small metal clips to one of the joists, it only comes into contact with insulation as it comes into the roof from the main consumer unit downstairs, must admit the cable is pretty thick stuff The spacing of the joists is quite good, I've had to cut a...

the sides bits have been there since day one, I've just been told that the house was built in 1967, I will measure everything on Sunday (my next day on the up there) I was going to get some 1x1 timber strips and screw them on the sides as support for the mdf/hard board sheets that I'm going...

Thanks for your replies, I was going to put some very thin mdf/hardboard on the sides just to stop any of the insulation from blowing around, if I put this on the sides there would still be ventilation getting down the apex of the roof etc. I'm not too sure about the trusses, I...

Thanks for your reply, I've just taken some pictures, it's took me 2 days to do one side and junction box all the electrics etc. Hope this gives you an ideal of what the loft is like, the insulation isn't compressed under the boards, i've just made it all neater as it was everywhere. I...

Hi Everyone, my very first post so go easy :) I'm currently in the process of loft boarding my friends loft, the size of it is 7.5m x 3.2 It's going to be used just for light storage, nothing really major going up there. however after reading a few of the forum posts I'm a little...