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Hi, i need to fit new skirting board after fitting wood engineered flooring, i have purchased the skirt and a mitre box. I have never fitted skirting board before and i dont want to make a mess as the skirting is the last part of my job. I only have two corners to cut (internal)i just need to...

Hi, i have completly striped my dining room and placed TandG panels around the walls at 32inch , i have removed the old skirts and paneled down to floor boards, i am putting WEF down . My dilema is should i put beading then skirting board or just beading , or just skirting. Not sure what would...

Hi i have put some 7.5mm TandG with 5mm batons on my dininig room wall , i have a twin electic socket that as a metal box fitted in the wall . I have cut the TandG to fit,however the socket is now set back inside the TandG i would like to bring it forward so it is sitting flush , not sure how...

Hi, i am fitting some TandG around a dining room wall and would like some tips on when it comes to the corners,do i purchase corner pieces for the job or just go up to the corner with the TandG. The wall is pretty good and even so i will be using adhesive rather than battons for fixing. Any help...

Hi, i am putting laminate floring in a dining room and i also want to panel the walls a third up with some T and G, i am not sure what would be the best way to finish the skirting. Would i use the laminate flooring mathching skirts or the T and G i will be using or niether and use beading to...

Hi, i want to remove a a door in my living room that leads to a dining room so i can block it up. i know that the pastering is out of my league but believe i can do the preperation. Any tips would be apreciated as i was going to take the door off and the arcitrave and build a frame for the...

Hi, i have just instaled my shower fan and switched on and all works fine. However when the fan is running only one of the butterfly vents open ,the other is trying to open but never fully opened ,is this normal ,the fan is positioned on a board and is solid , i have a couple of feet of ducting...

Hi, i have grey,brown black and earth. I want to know what colour to use for PL,SLandN. in my junction box black is SL do i use grey as PL and put a red sleeve on as red is PL on my junction box . Thanks

Hi, i am going to be fitting a shower fan and was checking the venting route before i start. I have a run of about 6feet which leads out to the corner of the roof. I have a board running underneath which is asbestos which is held on via nail and is slotted in. I also have a piece of timber that...

Hi, i want to fit a shower fan and run the venting via the loft , i have just spent some considerable time trying to find a suitable outlet via soffet boards etc , i can get a run down to the corner of the roof where their is aprox a gap of the size of a small paperback book.(lying flat) Not...

Hi, i have just replaced a old cieling rose with a Ashley J501 16 Amp Downlighter Junction Box, i have a bathroom light connected to this. While i am in the loft i wanted to fit a centrifugal extractor fan and wanted to know if i could run the fan via the junction box .Or would i have to fit a...

Hi, after fitting a monobloc tap to a new vanity unit i am getting very low pressure from the hot supply,now i new i would lose some pressure after doing some homework ,but it as gone down to a near dribble. I have chec ked the isolator valve,fully open and thier are no twist in the flexi. The...

Hi, i have just purchased a set of mono bloc spanners from a local plumbers . They are two box spanners with four different sizes ,none of them fit my brass not on my taps. When i try the smaller of the sockets one is obviously to big ,(14mm across the flats)and the other is to small)12mm across...

Hi, i have a vanity unit fixed and ready to accept the sink, i have the flexi tails , what i would like to know is can i fit the flexis to the taps via the horseshoe connectors and fixing bolt tighten them with a spanner then drop them in to the unit or do they only need to be hand tight . Its...

Hi, i have purchased a new valve and i find that when i fit the adapter over the 10mm pipe and tighten up the whole unit seem s to spin as if it is not tight enough , is there a better way of doing this . Thanks

Hi, i have a small radiator in the bathroom that i want to drain and remove. I have turned the maual control valve off and turned the lockshield valve to off which took 3 turns , however after aprox 4/5 pints it is still coming out . The radiator is 24inchx19inch. Also when the system is on hot...

Hi, i want to fit half a bathroom wall with pvc panels , i only want to go aprox half way. I will be using 5mm batons to attatch the panels . I have purchased the plinth(skirting ) to match and also a dado rail ,the problem is i am certain i cannot use a dado rail as the panels will be 5mm away...

Hi, i want to remove a single radiator in order to do some work beihnd it. When i remove the radiator can i still use the the back boiler to get hot water or do i have to completely turn of the central heating system .Thanks

Hi, i have just purchased a vanity unit as a direct replacement , the waste on the new unit as a bottle trap waste which is 32m OD and 31mm ID . my current waste is a a grey pipe which is 34OD and 30 ID could anyone recomend a way round using the the waste with the new unit or what to purchase...

Hi, i have a flexi pipe (15mm compresion) going to a chrome pipe for a shower , then a sevice valve not chrome going to the chrome pipe then shower , i am getting a leak from the flexi to the chrome . I have nipped it up as far as i can without striping the flats on the nut and i still get a...