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Hi, The walls of my bathroom are panelled with large sheets of varnished/stained 7mm plywood. The outer surface is designed to give an appearance of T&G, but it is very dark and I have decided to paint it. Could anyone recommend the best approach? I have sanded it down and was planning to...

I wonder whether someone can help me... I've panelled shower cubicle with aquapanel leaving 2-3mm gaps at joins, including the corner. I've read that it is sufficient to join boards with reinforcing tape bedded in with flexible adhesive. But does this make joins sufficiently waterproof? For...

I'm trying to set up the waste pipes for my washing machine which I've moved and a new shower. I wonder whether anyone could comment on the following proposal: I plan to run a 40mm waste pipe for a washing machine for about 2m along an inside wall on the ground floor. It will then run for...

I'm installing a shower cubicle in a room with a woodchip papered ceiling. My intuition tells me that this is not a good combination and I'm not sure what to do about it. Would I get away with painting it with an appropriate paint (eggshell or something similar)? I'm reluctant to remove the...

I've used some latex self-levelling compound to even out a concrete floor prior to tiling. Unfortunately the surface hasn't ended up as flat as I was hoping, with ridges left in some places where the flow ended. I had to pour the self-levelling compound from two different corners of the room...

I'm planning to tile an old concrete floor in a downstairs bathroom. It's cracked in places and even makes a slight creaking noise in places when you walk on it although there isn't any noticable movement. I was planning to cover it in self-levelling compound before tiling. Would that be enough...

I am planning to fit a new toilet on the ground floor. It is served by a vertical outlet in a concrete floor. I have located a close coupled s-trap toilet that I would like to use (see photo below), but am not sure how I would go about connecting it to the exiting soil pipe (as shown in the...

I want to take a spur from a socket in my kitchen to supply a new double socket. However the socket from which I want to take the spur is itself supplied from an independent unfused switch which itself acts as a sort of junction box in the ring main. The existing socket supplies the...

Hi all, Wonder whether anyone can help with the following question. I need to connect up a downstairs bathroom to the cold water cistern in the loft so that I can use balanced pressure mixer valves (at present bathroom cold water is high pressure mains fed whilst hot water is low pressure...

I wonder whether anyone can advise me about problem with my VW Golf MkIII. The engine cuts out under the following conditions: The engine is warm and the car has been running for a while.. I stop to refuel or for some other relatively short duration.. when I start the car it cuts out a...

I wonder whether anyone can help me? I have a gas central heating boiler that was installed about 4 years ago. It has recently been cutting out when it should be on (ie thermostat and time set correctly) . I have been advised by a heating engineer that it may be overheating due to having too...

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Hi, I have an open vented, fully pumped gas central heating system which makes a lot of noise. I've been advised that I should flush the system with some sludge remover which will require me to drain the system. The problem is that the feed and return pipes on all my downstairs radiators...

Hi, I want to install a new downstairs toilet one metre to the right of the old one. Can anyone tell me the best way to connect the new pan to the existing outlet which drops vertically down into a concrete floor? Is it feasible to have a 90 degree bend at the back of the new pan followed by...