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    Flooring Vinyl square tiles cracked and broken in places

    The floors have vinyl squares stuck to the underlying concrete and work very well for many years. In a few places the vinyl tile has cracked and bits of the vinyl tile is missing showing the concrete underneath. I want to put a new top of vinyl sheet and would like to fill the small depression...
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    Advise to construct wooden fence on top wall

    I need advise on suitable method to construct a wooden fence on top a boundary brick wall about 15 metres long. The brick wall is about 3 foot high, double brick (8.5 inches wide). I want a wooden fence built on top the wall and brought forward before covering with featherboard up to about 3...
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    Telephones dont always ring

    Hello My problem concerns telephones which don't always ring. The arrangement is a master socket to take the incoming telephone cable, this has an answerphone connected. The Master socket has two hardwired extensions, one extension has a telephone connected and the other has a three way...
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    Garden Fence/Wall building costs

    I live in Bristol and have a long garden double brick wall 3 ft high bordering the street. Over the year’s shrubs and tree growth close to the wall has caused some vertical and horizontal cracks mostly by tree trunks pressing the wall. I wanted to raise the wall to at least 6 feet using...
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    Covert camera and security light with camera

    I am looking for a covert camera to take pictures during the day and night, to be fixed to the top of the house to monitor my boundary wall. I wanted something that doesn't look like a camera and definitely do not want it to glow red at night. I understand all IR camera's give a red glow at...
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    Kitchen and Bathroom Sealant for uPVC window frames?

    I've just used Bathroom and Kitchen flexible sealant for my uPVC window frames then managed to find Frame sealant and started to use that for the other window. It looks like the Bathroom and Kitchen sealant is much harder and not so easy to apply, and some brands say not to use it for uPVC...
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    Cat5e RJ45 surface mount on skirting or wall

    I've raised floorboards to run Cat5e cabling to 5 rooms from the vicinity of my broadband cable modem so I can run broadband to any of these rooms. The 5 cables come up through the floorboard close to the modem and I've managed to preserve the Cat5e plugs on each end of the cables. Can...
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    Hole saws and access under floorboards

    Can somebody tell me if a hole saw bit needs special fittings for my rotary drill. The job I have in mind is I have nailed down floorboards in the loft and want to access under some floorboards before refitting the same boards. It seemed a good idea to use my drill with a hole saw to cut about...
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    Aerial amp/splitter under floorboards and possible problems

    Hi I want to fit an external aerial and run the aerial cable 10 metres into the loft and down to under the landing floorboards to an amplifier and 6 way splitter. Then run the aerial cables to 5 rooms maximum distance about 10 metres. The nearest transmitter is about 3 km away and I was...
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