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I have a small ensuite in the eves of a town house which has a sink waste which currently is boxed in and looks awful. Toothpaste is about all that goes down the trap. Thinking to run the waste + hot/cold feed through a couple of studs and then in to a large accessible void which is where the...

My garage is 10m from the house and has south facing roof, my house does not! Had a solar chap around and he thought the garage would be perfect for a new installation, asked if the garage has it's own CU, which it does, a small one. After he left, it occurred to me that the Garage CU is...

Did a search around but everyone asks a slightly different question so apologies if this has been answered before... Wanting to add a ceiling PIR to a room in the house but keep existing wall switch to override the PIR if needed. Will this diagram work to have either the PIR or switch (or both...

Just had our fireplace rendered with hydraulic lime render? Having a multi fuel stove fitted. Probably a 20mm gap to back wall, 250mm gap on the sides. How important is it to use a breathable paint? Or can I get away with anything?

Just had our fireplace rendered with hydraulic lime render, having a stove fitted. Ready to paint shortly, was looking at metallic copper paint by crown, but have read should use breathable paint. Two questions, what will happen if we use the metallic paint which I am guessing is not...

Have searched around but can't find a definitive answer, want to use 2 core 2.5mm2 cable to power some 12v garden spot lights, cable will run openly under deck, and around planting areas, probably buried. Can you use normal 2 core black PVC flex, or should i really be using rubberised stuff...

For my outside decking have joists sitting on slabs. Need some spacers to get peefect fall and height. What is the best way to stick plastic spacers to underside of the joists so they don't move over time? Could gaffer tape them but guessing that could detiorate.

My rattan furniture has plastic shoes which keep scratching the patio, I tried cutting up some rubber tyre with 'sticks like *', that lasted a couple of days, now got some felt which looks better and can slide furniture around, again used 'sticks like *', has lasted a month but now falling off...

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Am just wanting to make sure I understand this right as I am a hobbyist but not an electrician! I have 5m 12v 4.8w p/m led strip light. I want to be able to dimm this so my set-up will be: wall -> led driver -> led controller -> led strip light. 1, I need an led driver that can handle 5 x...

Hi, I replaced an honeywell analogue thermostat some years ago with a Danfoss TP75 programmable thermostat. This uses 2 batteries and has just two of the three wires connected, 'common' plus 'heat on'. Making the connection requests my system to call for hot water to be pumped to the rads...

We have had a single storey extension on our 12 year old house and last winter we had a small leak where the extension meets the house at about the time there was a load of snow on the flat roof (caused some minor pasteboard staining but no actual drips). We had the roofers back and all seems...

Let me explain... I am recessing a TV between two studs in a partition wall, The tv is exactly the right width to fit between the studs so I can't fit any plasterboard on the sides. I will use a corner bead to make a frame, this means easi-filling over plasterboard on the main wall (with...

Am about to embark on sanding down my stained stair handrail and spindles. I have read much advice on this site but hoping saomeone can give me a good suggestion for my particular case. 12 years ago the spindles were new and had Crown Trade WoodStain Finishcoat which I am assuming is oil...

Hi, have had an extension with bi-fold doors. The main floor was screeded first but as the doors went in afterwards and sit lower than the screed they were not able to screed up to the doors at the time. Now I have an open cavity, they have unsuccessfully tried twice to fill the cavity and...

Hi, we have just built a 'hybrid' roof, 40mm insulation below deck and 80mm insulation above deck on a flat roof with waterproof singe ply membrane on top. In the roof are two rooflights with 400mm upstands from joist level. These are made of stud work, cladded on the outside with OSB leaving...

We are adding a single storey 3m x 8m extension with flat (warm) roof to the back of our house. 7m of the 8m will be bi-fold doors. We are also adding 2 x large rooflights. We want to minimise the internal wall height of the rooflight upstand, at the moment this is 610 mm (12mm plasterboard...

Hi, have searched for a replacement shower mixer for the below, but it seems it is a strange size, the centres are 160mm, therefore will just be happy if I can revive them! I don't know what brand they are but they might be armitage/bristan but there is no logo to give anything away. Does...

Hi, I would like to re-paint my front door in a newish build which is now 5 years old. I think the door is metal, and possibly hollow inside? I believe this to be the case because a) putting a number on the door was problematic, b) my sun rode his bike into the door once and it has left a large...