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I need to paint the walls and sand+varnish a woden floor. What sequence would you recommend? - sand, wait one day, varnish and paint walls OR - paint walls, sand, wait one day, varnish floor or any other suggestion?

Hi, we need to run a drain pressure test for the building contron inspector (final visit). I am told that he wants to seal the drains on one end and fill up the water circuits with water to check leaks. three questions: 1) It is a two storey semidetached house. I guess this will have to...

I have been left by the builders with an unconnected secondary telephone socket, which I would like to use. In other terms, I discovered that the wiring that comes out the box is not connected to the socket. From the little I know, to make it work I need to identify the two key wires and...

No point in saying neon screwdrivers are not to be used. But can you pls point me to a good doc explaining how to identify live cables (and some theory if possible? The multimeter I used measures the amplitude of the AC, but does not identify which cable is live. it is a digital tester, Are...

I get the error "FUSE/BATTERY FAULT) on a Gadtec contour LCD RKP. This happens only when I switch off the electricity in the house and the alarm system runs off its battery, which a 12V PowerSonic PS-1270 inside a Gardtec 593 control unit. My assumption was that the battery was flat as the...

Bosch washing machine runs the main wash part of the program all right, then start rinsing for two/three minutes and stops! All buttons still work, but the machine does not move and the start button is dead. Need to wait about an hour, then press the start button again and I can get water...

I am to replace the fusebox in my home with a modern CU and need to isolate the fusebox from the main electricity supply. However, the only isolator between the CU and the mains is what seems to be a ceramic "fuse" located inside a box between the electricity meter and the mains. (see white...

Need to varnish (clear) a newly installed hardwood (sapele?) balustrade (spindles and handrail). I am overwhelmed with information What's the best way to do it. What to use to prime? What to use to Varnish: oil (which one?); lasutect (?); just a clear varnish would do as well? Use rubber...

I plan to remove the front panels of a washing machine to get access to the space in between the drum and the external cylinder. The hope is that I will be able to take out a noisy object stuck inside. Any suggestion/advice before I do that?

I think a little bra metal bracket got stuck in the drum of a Bosch 2820. The machine washes fine, but it is very noisy when the spinning starts. It is as if the drum would hit the metal bracket at every spin. I unscrewed the filter and it is clean. I tried to look for the metal...

Need to paint a staircase made of - red pine newel post (stripped and sanded) - Oak handrail (stripped and sanded) - Oak spindles (newly installed). There are several different products in the market to varnish interior wood (all sorts of oil, solvent varnishes, water/acrylic...

I have just removed some doors and had them stripped. I now need to hang them back. Any suggestions/hints/tips to do this? acchillo

I stripped all the paint off the balustrade of my staircase and plan install some spindles to replace some wooden panels After this I will have: - red pine newel post (stripped and sanded) - Oak handrail (stripped and sanded) - Oak spindles (newly installed). My hope is that oak and...

We have just sanded our staircase, doors/architraves and wooden panels on the walls opposite the balustrade and found out that. 1) The newel posts are made of red (canadian?) pine. 2) The panels on the walls of the staircase are red (canadian pine) 3) The handrail is made of oak 4) The...

We would like to replace the old fuse box with a modern Wylex consumer unit with RCDs and proper breakers. However there are no switches between the REC main cable and the fuse box. This means that there will be live cable coming into the consumer unit and it would be foolish to try to...