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Hi all, I have been storing my Harvey HV3 water softener for the last 6 months in my shed. I have not had a plumber refit it in kitchen cupboard and all pipework is correct. However, when we turn the water on to the softener you hear the water running but the tank does not fill up the water just comes out of the air gap fitting and down the pipe going outside. Please can someone advise how to refill, it is a case of opening the inlet first before opening the outlet or do I need to manually fill the tank up with water first as it is completely dry in there?

Thank you so much Nick. Very helpful

Hi all, I am looking to fit a Mira Flight Low Profile 900 x 900mm Stone Resin Quadrant Shower Tray which has reinforcement underneath, please see attached picture. I was hoping to fit with CT1 silicone but where the radius edge of the tray is (red section) it needs raising up about 3mm to be perfectly level. What are my options. Could I put more silicone around the radius part and then put some plastic packers around the edge to raise the tray up or have I got to do a cement and mortar bed?

I don’t have to cut joists the pipework will run parallel to the joists and then run internally towards the a wall where it can run under the joists and into the soil stack. This area will be then boxed in

Hi all, Currently I have full access to the ceiling underneath the ensuite and I need to run waste from basin and shower into a vented at roof level soil stack. Would you advise running two separate wastes for basin and shower into the soil stack or just have one run coming from basin to the shower and then into the soil stack? Would really appreciate peoples thoughts.

Thanks will take a look. Just noticed Jackoboard do these fixings, I wonder how they would be with thermalite blocks

Sorry what do you mean BG do a knock in for this purpose?

Hi all, I had an extension done and one of the walls in the en-suite is thermalite which is nice and level. I need to board this wall out with insulated tile backer boards. I was planning to prime the thermalite wall with SBR Then apply a rapid set flexible cement based tile adhesive to the tile backer board with a 1/4 inch trowel and then fit the board to the wall. Once the tile adhesive has dried I was going to mechanically fix the board as well. Does this sound correct?

Thanks for your reply Beau. I have used 1.5mm T&E and they are only LED spotlights. Could of prob got away with 1mm. So sounds like cables first, then insulation with cable coming through the insulation to the individual spot lights

I need to run lighting cables for the ground floor lights in the ceiling. I will be doing this from below. The void between the two floors will also be filled with 100mm acoustic insulation. Should the lighting cables sit above or below the acoustic insulation.

Any issues with offsetting wall units from the wall with 10mm wooden batten? Just need to bring them forward by 10mm

Thank you very much. I will get some top soil ordered up!

Hi all, I have a friend who can help me this weekend so was going to get them to remove some concrete posts. There are 3 to remove, one will be replaced with a new concrete post and the other 2 are in the wrong places. I am not in a position right now to put the new concrete posts. Therefore planning to back fill with soil the two holes that are in the wrong place and will try and compact it down. I would appreciate feedback on this. With the post that needs to be replaced for now could I just leave the concrete post in the hole ready to just be pulled out and replaced at a later stage? Thanks

I need to do this soon as the steels sit proud of the joists. If I batten out then I can get a nice flat ceiling. I was planning to use roofing battens at 300mm centres but it seems like 400mm would be enough with 12.5mm fire rated plasterboard? As I am using roof battens would you guys advise putting two battens side by side where the boards join?

Thanks for the advice Mr Punter.