Search results

After 2 years of living with a dark suede effect paint in the living room it's time for a change. My wife wants to go with white paint this time which will be on 3 walls and up the landing, the other wall will be re-papered later when she can figure out what she wants :) I've sanded the walls...

Hi there, I recently changed my Potterton PRT100 to the DT90E after reading some threads on here about the wiring etc. Term 1 to A and Term 2 to B with the neutral capped off. It all seems to be working although I do get quite loud clicks when the timer is off, not a constant clicking like...

I'm looking for a bit of help and advice. I have a carpenter hanging some doors for me and he started this afternoon. He has put one door up and it does look miles better than the bog standard white one we had before. However, when I looked a bit closer after he'd gone I noticed a couple of...

This freezer is just over 5 years old now and is playing up again. We first had it repaired when it was about 16 months old by Hotpoint who said it had a design fault, the fault caused the build up of ice in the freezer section. The engineer put a little heater in a foil bag type of thing in...

We had our garden done last month with decking leading to a patio. It all looks fantastic and the garden is now useable (it was on a slope before). Just got a question about the patio grouting though. The mixture they put in was powder form and just swept between the slabs. He told me that...

I'm trying to find some chrome finger plates for around my light switches. I've found plenty of white & clear plastic ones but not having much luck with chrome. Does anyone make them? If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be most grateful.

I want to replace the white sockets in our kitchen with chrome ones. I bought some replacements thinking it was a universal size but they are a bit bigger than the ones I have on at the moment. The sizes I need are 85 x 85 mm singles and 145 x 85 mm doubles. Can anyone point me in the right...

I had the ceilings in my kitchen and dining room plastered about 10 days ago (they were artexed before). I've now used plaster sealer on them both and then painted them with white emulsion. However, both ceilings have now had 3 coats and still look patchy. Where am I going wrong? Im using a...