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    Disconnecting Garage electrics..quicky!

    Hopefully a quick sanity check question! My garage has power going to it from main fuse box in the house (an overhead cable going to a mini fuse box in the garage). The garage is on it's own RCD switch on the main house fuse box but also has a fused switch next to the fuse box which the...
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    Quick demolition question!

    Want to have our detached brick built garage demolished (before it falls down!). Guy came round to quote demolising and removing brick/spoil but said that he would have to also remove the concrete slab/foundation due to "the regs". My wife informs me it didn't sound like sales patter so that...
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    Any good online internal door suppliers?

    Did a search and couldn't find any recommendations for suppliers? Have googled but am always sceptical of the 'paid for' results. I am looking for either oak/pitch pine four panel internal doors - top two panels being glazed (either pre-glazed or 'to be glazed'). There are quite a few firms...
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    If you were faced with this.........? (plastering/filling)

    I had fun on Saturday angle grinding channels for some speaker cable I wanted buried. The fireplace used to have a gas fire in and when I removed it and the lovely floor tiles that had been put on the wall as a 'surround' this is the surface I am left with - a kind of hotch potch of various...
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    Making good dropped ceiling boards

    We have a 1950's house. All of the ceilings are plasterboard that has been fixed with nails. Over the years settlement of the structure has no doubt caused some of the plasterboard to 'drop' relative to neighbouring sections. We therefore have lots of straight line cracks. Over time the...
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    Lightswitch Wiring Help - 3 gang to 2 gang

    In the lounge of my house there is a 3 gang light switch, each switch operating a separate light. 2 of the switches operate 2 separate wall lights on the same wall, the remaining operates the ceiling light. I want to replace the 3 gang switch with an IR 2 gang dimmer (I think its a Varilight)...
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