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Thanks for the speedy replies! Yes, I was just wanting to have the internal opening as a decorative feature. I'll keep on chipping off the plaster and see what I find. Any advice as to what I can use to get the plaster off with? I've been using a hammer and chisel which has been fine so far as...

As the title suggests I'm opening up a fireplace.. hopefully this is the right section for my question! I'm opening it up for decorative purposes (it won't be used as a working fireplace) so I was hoping to find a nicely bricked up builder's opening under the plaster which could easily be...

Good news..changed the kitchen lights over without any problems! Thanks again for the advice...much appreciated!

Thanks for the advice EFLImpudence! I'll give it a go. The yellow wire on its own really confused me for a while there, but you've cleared it up for me! Just out of interest what are the red wires for??

Update: I did finally get round to doing this last week...and the house is still standing! ;-) I ended up cutting the ends off as suggested and stuck them in the holes..so thanks for that! It's looking good..just need to paint it all now!

I'm in the process of (trying!) to do up the kitchen. I've bought a new set of lights to update the old ones. Now, in the past I've easily replaced old lights for new without any problems...just swapping the wires over, like for like. I'm a bit stumped with the kitchen light though as it looks a...

Excellent! Thanks for the advice...I'll give it a go! :-)

Hi! We've got a kitchen window which looks into our mini-conservatory. The window used to be an external window hence all the openings. Since the middle window of the kitchen window was smashed a couple of weeks ago this needs replacing. I was wondering though, seeing as we don't need all the...