Home DIY

Masking tape! That was a huge step forward for me a while back, especially since if I do this kind of thing at all, like most people it'll only be every few years.

I need to get my stairs re-carpeted. Suggestions on how I'd go about it? I definitely think Id need someone to do it for me, but do I just walk into a carpet shop and order? Or checkatrade it?

Suggestions on hard-wearing neutral cheap carpet?

Where are you based
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Right, I need to move our washing machine into our bathroom and add a tumble dryer.
My understanding is this is tricky to be building regs compliant. If I have a large cupboard built to accommodate these and the boiler, similar to built in applicances in the kitchen.
What steps need to be taken to make it compliant?

We have people in Nunhead we have used. Might be a bit far but let me know.

But the advertising says......oh.

To @hovis too.

Part of me is unhappy to buy one tube to do one bath. The bath is recessed under the tiles so thin decorative bead is all that is needed.

Got a roca contessa (steel) 700x 1700 bath with non slip coating and feet for £114 delivered. Thought that was great value.

Make sure that the bath doesn't move then. A lot of people don't even batten the wall to rest the bath on something solid. Also make sure you 3/4 fill the bath when you apply the mastic/silicon and leave it full of water until it dries.

I've just gone through this.

Have a look at this first.

We had ours installed in a cupboard and wired into a socket, which means removing the plug. It was all signed off by an electrician...

thin decorative bead is all that is needed.

Don't expect a thin, decorative bead to have long-term waterprooffness.
The best sealants a DIY-er can get only allow for 25% movement across the joint in total.
A bathful of water plus the bather can easily cause a couple of millimeters of flex, especially when stepping in/out of the bath and the bathers weight is concentrated in the middle of the bath.

I like it!

What drip edge did you go for? I'm agonising over how to finish the roof, now that I'm back from my holidays and in DIY mode again.

Not strictly a DIY question...

We're having our bathroom renovated and having lustrolite panels installed in the shower.

The fitter cut out holes for the shower controls and for the recesses. When putting on the trim, the panel cracked across a 150mm section.

I know what his opinion is but should it be me or him that has to foot the bill for the new panel?

I just used a couple of "felt support trays" from selco, which looked like they would achieve the correct end result. Put it under a layer of felt underlay followed by shingles.

I too agonised about layering and order etc etc. The Internet is full of different opinions on how it should be done. Felt like there was no correct answer

Tough one to answer, usually comes down to how much you are paying for the job and how much the replacement panel+labour to replace is going to cost. If you've hired someone on a day rate and they are struggling to pay the bills you've little chance of getting them to pay for materials although they might be prepared to put in the extra hours to remove the old one and fit a new one. If you've payed a company to cover all aspects of the installation then they should be putting it right.

In practice you have to negotiate. If it had happened to me I'd be putting it right but that's built in to my price. If I'm working with delicate materials I try to do enough research and take care not to screw up. As an example though I'd price for installation of materials I'm not expert in fitting to include the possibility of failure.

One time I installed a painted glass splash back and the silver backing bubbled slightly (the client was still happy with it) but I took the whole thing off, stripped and repainted it and had the glass supplier put the mirror backing on it. Another time I cracked a double glazed unit with an unobtainable interior mirrored pane so I found someone who could make a new unit using the old mirrored glass and sucked up the labour in removal/fitting and the cost of having the unit custom made. It's gutting when you lose money like that but usually the labour part of it is easier to swallow.

Thanks.

We're paying for a total job and he knew about the panel install from the outset so I would expect it to come out of his end.

He's also had plenty of extras during this job so he's already up at least £1k from the initial quote...

Annoyingly, I'm in Greece until Thursday so it's tough to communicate over WhatsApp.

North Bromley.

Did you find them online? How did you chose them?

Nice

As in 'Nice (french) of SE london'

They are local to us and had originally installed the carpets before we bought they house. They have done our stairs and a few rooms for us - 1 upstairs and 1 downstairs.

i dont get your point

Does anyone know a strong filler (epoxy?) that can take a load and be screwed into? Or should I just epoxy the bracket back on and screw in before it sets?

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take a load and be screwed into?

Did anybody else snigger at this?

I don't know, I did just think about packing the hole with wood and sticky opaque fluid then banging it until something sticks.

...too much?

Two part wood filler is the business. Like so:

https://www.toolstation.com/shop/Painting+%26+Decorating/d150/Fillers+%26+Putty/sd3169/Everbuild+High+Performance+Wood+Filler+500g/p55454

They come in different colours too.