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Hi, Hopefully someone can help. We have a waste pipe coming from our loft conversion bathroom. It exits at the back of the house and has a 45 degree bend and then the it drops vertically through the house. We have had an "incident" where the pipe got blocked and then it cleared, but it cleared...

Hi, Hopefully someone can help? I have a system boiler ( Ideal mini S24 ) which forms part of the unvented system I have in our house.The boiler sits in the first floor of a three storey townhouse, right next to the unvented cyclinder. There are two valves, one for the unvenetd hot water...

Hi there, Hopefully someone can help? My ADG 7540 Dishwasher had water dripping out the bottom ( quite a bit ), I took the stainless plate off the base and there are two plastic tubes which look like they are there to allow water to drain into the stainless base. I think this is what has...

Hi, Question regarding "good practice" with respect to woodwork, if I may? I am looking to install a wood engineered floor ( 18 -> 20 mm thick )over the existing pine floorboards in my sons bedroom. Theres no skirting board or architrave on the walls, as the rooms been refurbed. When I 've...

Hi, Question regarding "good practice" with respect to woodwork. I am looking to install a wood engineered floor ( 18 -> 20 mm thick )over the existing pine floorboards in my sons bedroom. Theres no skirting board or architrave on the walls, as the rooms been refurbed. When I 've layed...

Hi, Hope someone can shed a little light for me. We have had wooden sash windows installed. In one particular bedroom ( whose extrernal wall is south facing and hence bears the brunt of the "weather" ) I have yet to make good the internal wall in the bedroom and between the underside of of...

Hi, Wonder if anyone can help? we have a kitchen which has a tiled floor. The sub floor is solid not timber ( presumed concrete ). We're having the kitchen "done" and would like electric underfloor heating installed. Everything I've read about ufh says that you should really put insulating...

Hi, I'm probably being dumb, but does it matter whcih way round you wire the feed to a Double Pole 60A switch fuse. i.e Fig A or Fib in the diagram. It seems like both wiring configs provide the same protection a.) isolation and b.) overload protection Any help appreciated, thanks in...

Hi, I am in the process of designing a single storey side extension to my property under permitted development ( height ridge <= 4m ), the probelm is to get the required span, the roof pitch at the rear has to be 15 degrees ( the front pitch is 36 degrees and matches the main house roof pitch...

Good evening everyone. In the interests of satisfying my, now confirmed, woodworking related OCD. Does anyone know how I can repair damaged edges on a softwood internal door. Are there any techniques and special fillers for such a job, got a feeling that the usual "paste" type fillers won't do...

Hi There, I'm after a little advice from those that know please. I have an old internal door that I would like to hang. The door will act as a cupboard door to our central heating cupboard. The door matches all the others in the house, they're about 100 years old. The door frame which will...

Hi, Hopefiully someone can help. Our Whirlpool ADG 7540/1 Integrated Dishwasher has become very noisy when the recirc pump fires up after it has filled., Sounds like its stalling. I've had a similar problem before and traced it back to broken plastic lugs on the housing where the spary bars...

Hi. I'm putting up skirting (ogee). The walls in the room aren't perfectly vertical at the corners ( is anything! :) ?). If i fix the skirting tight to the wall, when I cut the profile out for the scribed joint, theres a big gap when I offer the scribed piece to the fixed piece ( because of the...

Evening, I ve come across the age old problem where the architraves were removed from around a door lining, the plasterer has been in and skimmed, leaving the skim up to 5mm prouder than the width of the door lining. I've checked this forum and have decided that the best way froward is to pack...

Hello, Following a loft conversion and subsequent installation of a new staircase, the second fix guy fixed skirting board to the wll that forms that new landing at thye top of the stairs. However, where the skirting meets the staircase it looks untidy. I feel I need to do something to tidy it...

Hi, I know a lot has ben written on this subject in previous posts- I've just got two more question, if I may? I plan to scribe the internal corners of the new skirting board I'm putting in ( Ogee ). I've been practising on some offcuts and am fairly pleased :) with my results ( cutting...

Hi, Wonder if anyone can help please? I've had a room replastered ( Bonding + Skim ). I've bought new skirting board and have a good idea of how to scribe the internal joints and mitre the external joints ( thanks to the excellent advice on this forum ). The new skirting board is about the...

:oops: I feel like a bit of a plum asking this but how do you cut a fairly narrow piece of wood lengthwise? e.g Door architrave where the door frame is so near to a wall that the architrave is too wide and needs narrowing up. A circular saw seems impossible to use as the wood is so narrow (...

Hi,i'm in need of some honest practical advice please I've got a Victorian House and have been rennovating the main bedroom. Its been a lot of work, lath and plaster ceiling down, new suspended ceiling up and skimmed, old plaster off the walls, all now rebonded and skimmed. I'm pooped! and one...

Hi, Wonder if anyone can please help/advise me? I've removed the blown plaster from one of the bedrooms in our late victorian house. The bedroom is at the front of the house, on the first floor, above the lounge which has a bay window. A wooden joist spans the width of the downstairs bay window...