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Hi all I'd be very grateful if a gas fitter could answer a question for me. The beginning of this year I bought a cookology gas hob as part of a planned kitchen tart up. The kitchen was put off till just recently and now it's time to get the hob fitted. In August I got a letter telling me...

Hi all. A bathroom basin cold tap has developed a problem. When I turn it on the water comes out with a bang. I can turn it a few degrees nothing happens, then suddenly the water comes out with a water hammer like bang. It does it every time. It's an old style tap not a quarter turn.

Hi all I'm fitting a patio door made from Selecta profiles. I'm wondering why the outside of the frame sections slopes inwards at the edge. What I mean is the outside of the frame, all four sections, look like in the photo attached. Can anyone tell me why it's made with that shape profile? Why...

Hi all. My shower tray waste started to back up a few weeks ago. It reached the point where I had to turn the water off mid shower and wait a couple of minutes for it to drop. There was no apparent blockage close to the tray and running a 8mm dia drain snake through it went all the way through...

Hi all. I'm fitting some double glazed uPVC french doors. The frames are in but now I'm putting the 28mm units into the frames I notice they are bowed. The glass units touch the seals top and bottom but there is about a 10mm gap in the middle. Putting a long straight edge on the glass shows the...

Hi all. When a bricklayer uses profiles for his stringline, how does he finish the bit of mortar behind the profiles? By the time he takes down the profile the mortar will likely be fully hardened so he won't be able to strike it with a jointer. It will look different to the other joints.

Hi all. I want to drop the floor in a 2.4m x 3m room about 48mm. The current floor is suspended and sits on 102 x 47 sawn timber joists. These joists sit in joist brackets that are built into the walls. The joists are 2.4m long but are supported in the middle on a wall that runs down the...

Hi all. Using 18mm tongue and groove OSB on a flat roof. Do the end joins need to be over a joist? Or are the tongue and groove joints ok if they are between two spans? Also are the joints, length and width, normally glued? Thanks.

Hi. Can anybody tell me how a timber framed building or extension, which is clad on the outside is constructed? What I mean is is it built as a single frame with the cladding on the outside and plasterboard on the inside? Or is it built like a conventional brick and block build with an inner...

Has anybody any experience of these plank tiles? I was a bit sceptical but when placed on a floor it takes a bit of pressure to move them. I looked at them in a store and the principal looks good in theory. The ones I've looked at are made by Amtico. Not sure if that is a decent make though...

Hi all. I'm looking to overboard my flat garage roof before laying a new covering. I'm doing this because the roof currently has floorboards and if I use EPDM then they won't be much use. I want to keep the boards as thin as possible because of where a cooker hood exit grill is located just...

Hi all? I'm looking to buy a few hundred LBC Tudor bricks to match in with existing brickwork I want to add to. I've noticed that Ibstock do Tudors and looking at website pictures they look the same, kind of. Does anybody know if Ibstock Tudors are a good match for LBC Tudors? The bricks I buy...

Hi all. I'm grouting wall tiles that are a matt finish, they are grey 600 x 300 and I'm using grey grout. In the past when I've grouted I used a squeegee type thing but I bought a grout float that wasn't expensive. I'm finding that unless I apply extreme pressure the float doesn't take the grout...

Hi all. I bought a new back to the wall toilet from a local merchant which came as part of a furniture and basin package. Standing it on a level flat surface it rocks from front to back by quite a bit. Pressing it down at the back makes the top of the pan level but there is about a 8mm gap at...

Hi all. I haven't been able to find this out on the web so can somebody help me please. Are the rubber fins on the end of a toilet pan connector designed to go into 110mm pipe. Or do they have to go into a 110mm socket. Thanks.

Hi all. I'm tarting up a shower room and fixing an ideal standard shower hose elbow, but I'm a but concerned about fitting it. It has a brass threaded tube sticking out the back and I'm going to set a wall plate elbow into the wall to screw it into. I wont be able to screw it fully into the wall...

Hi. I have a concealed cistern, same as in the link, with a cable operated dual flush mechanism. I want to change the button for a flush plate but are all cable operated systems the same? What I mean is do they all have the same end on the cable that clicks into the back of the button/ plate...

Hi all. I pulled a fridge freezer out of the corner of the utility room and there was a patch of mould on the wall. It was about half a metre up from the floor and roughly the size of a dartboard. The wall the mould is on is an external wall which is single brick. It has battens screwed to it...

Hi all. I've got a problem with a shower that is powered by a salamander ct50 pump. A bar mixer valve that we'd used for years stopped working properly and gave one temperature regardless of where the temp was set to. I bought a new mixer, a one with an overhead rainfall spray, I fitted it and...

Hi all. I want to fix some plasterboards to a wall but I can't go above about 15mm total thickness. I was going to use 9.5 boards and stick them with gyproc board adhesive. So obviously I have around 5mm adhesive thickness, is this enough? I'd rather use 12.5mm boards but that would reduce the...