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Is there no issue with the detergent\degreaser soaking in to the plaster and affecting the adhesion of the tile adhesive?

I am after some advice on removing grease from bare plaster before tiling on it. Our kitchen was completely replastered about 18 months ago and due to a combination of laziness and other priorities I am only now getting round to tiling. Because of this I now find myself in the situation where...

I've got a problem with condensation forming on the backs of my kitchen cabinets and on metal pans in them along the back wall of my kitchen. The issue seems to be caused by the kitchen itself getting hot and steamy and the space under and behind the cabinets being freezing. Would...

Thanks, i'll try the pipe lagging, failing that i'll go the bog roll route, which will make a nice change from using it to get silicone sealant off my fingers!

Our central heating pipes run under our bathroom floor in notches in the joists and due to the notches being less than regular in depth the pipes clang sometimes when you walk round above them. I've tried squeezing pipe insulation round them in the notches to stabilize them but there is not...

right, but if i'm adding it to the water, rather than the other way round how do i know how much water to start with to mix say half the bag?

I've just bought a 25Kg bag of knauf bonding compound plasterboard adhesive to dot and dab a small area of plasterboard but I can't seem to find instructions anywhere on what ratio of powder to water this should be mixed at. The packet just say to pour it in to an unspeicifed quantity of...

Thanks a lot for the sanity check! That's got make my life much easier

So does that mean i'll be ok using plasterboard to block the hole?

I thought anything used to block it had to be fireproof, in case hot embers fell back down the chimney from the top. I am of course assuming the flues join together further up the breast and don't remain independent all the way to the top. Are you saying this is unlikely to be the case?

The fireplace in our bedroom was blocked off with a piece of hardboard, i have opened it up and taken out all the rubble and now want to build a recess in to it. Is cement particle board a suitable material to close it up with (vented of course) bearing in mind that at some point in the...

is there any chance it will at least shrink back to size when its dried out? The annoying thing is that the piece of surface with the non cut edge has swollen too. Could i not try and clamp it to squeeze it back together again? The laminate itself is still intact, the majority of the...

At the weekend the air inlet valve on my boiler decided to become a water outlet valve. On Easter Sunday. In the middle of the night. :evil: I have since had the boiler fixed but it spent a good 8 hours dripping water on to my kitchen surface, which made its way down the join between two...

HELP!!! Does anyone know if there is in existence a 15mm to 3/8" tap fitting? They seem to exist in the flexi hose variety but not as a straight connector. I did have the connection made up with a 1/2" to 3/8" adapter but because of this the seal had to be along the rubbish plastic...

I was kind of hoping there was something i could do which wouldn't require supporting the ceiling while the work was being done or taking off more of the plaster.

anyone? :?

At the weekend i knocked a hole through my kitchen wall for my cooker hood vent, it is the 5" rectangular type. All looked fine when i first knocked it through as the brick above the gap in the inner skin of the wall appeared to be spanning the hole i had made, but on closer inspection, after...

The conclusion i had come to was to not bond it, I'm glad that someone was able to confirm that i hadn't got completely the wrong end of the stick. Cheers :)

OK now im really confused, does my kitchen sink need earthing or not, it seems that different versions of the regs say different things, the sink fitting instructions came with lots of writing in bold about how the sink must be bonded, but I've seen people on here who seem to know what they are...

OK, Cheers