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Hi As part of our new extension I am installing a shower in a shower room (Inc WC and basin). The walls around the shower cubicle are waterresistant plasterboard and the floor is 18mm waterresistant chipboard. I plan on having wall tiles floor to ceiling throughout the shower room and...

As part of a new extension I am installing a basin in my Daughters new bedroom, plumbing is installed ready and I have a round basin that is designed to sit on a worktop. Having seen the extortionate prices that washstands are going for (£200-300 easily) I am considering making one myself. It...

I have a standard coupled basin/cistern, approx 18 years old. When you flush the toilet there is a fog horn type noise, I have taken the top of the cistern and the noise stops when i pull the ball up. The cold water feed pipe vibrates quite badly when the noise happens and you put your hand...

As part of our new extension we have a shower room (with shower, wc, basin and towel rail) and a en-suite wc (toilet, sink and towel rail). I have notified BC that I am installing the electrical work, they are inspecting 1st fix and getting somebody to test afterwards. Q1 I appreciate...

Have any of you tried any of the economy spotlight bulbs or LED spotlights? I'm looking for some feedback as to whether they are worth investing in (They ain't cheap!)

I have a number of ceiling spotlights around the house, some are labelled as dimable and some aren't. What makes a spotlight dimable? And can non-dimable ones be upgraded?

We are just finishing the inside of our two storey extension, this includes a en-suite toilet and seperate shower room. I now need to purchase two white toilets, B&Q sometimes have ones for £59 but are these really going to last or are they just too cheap? There is a reasonable range on eBay...

Because we have taken down the internal wall between our kitchen and dining room we now have had to remove the coving from around the ceiling to match. In some places the plaster has fallen off, I will make good on this with a quick skim. Because there is no paint under the coving but...

I need to install a T connector off an existing 15mm mains water pipe, access space is severely limited as it is under the 1st floor floorboards and surrounded by a mass of other pipes for central heating etc. I presumed that I would need to use a compression T as there is likely to be water...

I am just fitting a new kitchen with gloss black doors. I need to trim down a few of the doors to fit certain items in, I wanted to use black conti-board iron on strips to finish the edges but can't find them in any local shops. Any suggestions?

We have recently had a kitchen extension built, the external wall to the kitchen and the internal wall to the dining room have been removed to make one big kitchen/dining room. I have found the highest point on the floor which is where the old kitchen outside wall used to be and started...

I need a 1/2 hour fire door between our new kitchen and the garage conversion. B&Q have a range of firedoors at a god price (From £45). What sort of door frame door I need? They also sell intumescent strips, do these fit into the frame?

Where our kitchen extension joins the existing kitchen there is a step formed beause the new walls have to have insulation in them as well as a clear cavity. I have removed the existing browning and plaster from the kitchen wall (Rather too easily as it flaked off!) Leaving a step of approx...

In my new Kitchen there will be 2 x 5 50w GU10 spot, each with a seperate circuit. Obviously with no ceiling rose I need to join together the main power feed and the switch and the lights. As we're not supposed to put connections in inacessible places, how should I join these together? I...

I am soon to be running new cables into our kitchen. Assuming diversity is used and standard 2.5mm T&E cables with the following appliances; Dishwasher (Cold water feed only) Washing machine (Cold & Hot Feed) Tumble dryer Fridge/Freezer (USA Style) Microwave Toaster Kettle Waste...

As part of our kitchen refurb I need to extend the existing 6 or 10mm cable approximately 2-3m. (I haven't checked the cable size yet). What is the approved way of doing this ?, as I believe you shouldn't have inacessible connection boxes.

We are just having a new Combi Boiler installed in our extension, we have an existing Showerforce Regal Thermostatic power shower. Is there any way we can get the powershower to work with the Combi-boiler until I have the time and money to replace it? (I was wondering about installing a...

We are just getting ready to install a new kitchen in our extension. We have chosen Black Gloss doors for most of the units in a L shape with the one side of the L sticking into the room creating a peninsular. The peninsular will have a 900mm wide worktop to give a breakfast bar. There will...

We are just about to have a new Worcester Bosch 40CDi installed, I have already purchased it for the Plumber and it weighs in at 57Kg! I am just about to prepare the new wall ready for it, it is a Durox insulation wall and I was going to don 'n' dab plasterboard and them apply a 3mm plaser...

Probably an unusual question seeing as most people posting have negative things to say about there builders... However I have a local family firm that have done a very good job for me of Building our extension shell. I am looking for suggestions on a gift for them to say thankyou. Need to...