How to lay Indian sandstone slabs?
Gardening & Landscaping
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I’ve had a landscaper in this week to lay down kandala Indian sandstone slabs. Noticed he has used lots of stones and only used a machine once to flatten them and then put make stones down. He has laid the slabs on top of the stones without cement and has …
Wall panels falling down with skim coat
Painting & Decorating
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Wall panels fall down with skimming layer, it’s only done in 3 months, but already falling down. I think it’s the glue applied not evenly and too much, and should not install on skimming layer. Anyone can give good advice or even can fix it?
Which Ideal Standard tap?
Bathroom Fitting
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Hi, I am in a 4 year old Redrow 'new'build and the bathroom basin mixer tap developed a small leak, seemingly where the hose go into the tap unit. My skills are not good enough to remove the hoses (seems to be a spring clip holding them in) so I …
Bath only has fully hot water when central heating is on
Heating & Gas
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I live in a flat with a communal heating system and an MHS boiler in my flat. The kitchen and bathroom taps have hot water (though in the case of the kitchen tap it can take a little while to heat up but after that it will stay on. Similarly …
How to remove paint from grooves less than half an inch wide?
Painting & Decorating
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My bathroom ceiling had mold coming through it. There looks like there are at least 2 coats of paint on it. I have used a heat gun to get rid of alot of the paint but the ceiling has small gooves running along the width of it. It's kind of …
Brick slips
Brickwork & Repointing
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Hi I am wanting to brick slip my wall it has recently been sound proofed and plastered and I’ve read online I can’t do this on plastered wall, as it is too smooth and the brick slips will fall off. I’m due to have it painted on Wednesday and need …
Broken toilet seat
Bathroom Fitting
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Hi, I have a toilet with closed sides. It obiously uses top down fittings for the seat. However, the seat has broken on one side and the screw for the fitting has broken at the head, leaving the fitting in the hole. I can't get to the back, or underneath, …
Plastering damp line
Plastering & Rendering
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We've recently had damp proofing carried out throughout our downstairs. They took 1.2m of plaster off round the bottom half of the walls, back to brick and treated them. Then rendered, plasters etc and went on their way. We waited the advised 3 weeks, sanded down the wall as there …
Bad egg smell in kitchen?
Plumbing
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For the past week there has been an egg smell in the kitchen that has gradually got worse and can now smell it all downstairs and assumed it was coming from the kitchen sink. Its not blocked, the external drain is clear and fine. I've been flushing the sink with …
Temperature in combi boiler
Heating & Gas
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The temperature numbers on my boiler keeps going up and down rapidly when got to correct temperature on my nest app