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In 2008 I bought a 12v Black & Decker cordless drill. It hasn't been used very much and always stored with battery section seperate. In fact it still looks new but because I was stupid enough to allow it to fall off the step ladder so now it is buggered and I was told that I would have to...

Could anyone please advise me, which masonary nails I should use/buy to nail plywood (about 10mm) onto a concrete floor. The ply is a bit springy and I want to nail it down. I've not used masonary nails for years, but I do remember that I wasn't very good when I used them because they all bent...

I bought vinyl tiles for an area of about 4x4ft. The area is concrete and not exactly true. I bought 4 pieces of ply which were about 10mm thick, each just over 2ft sq. Naturally thats for a sub floor. Anyway I cut the ply to fit the odd angles of the door frames and bought an adhesive which is...

It's been a while since I last visited, 'DIYNOT' now though I've got a bit of a problem which hopefully someone can suggest something. As I enter my front door their is a small passage, in fact it's so small you would hardly call it a passage, but it has, including the front door, 4 doors...

Has anyone used b&q trade paint. If so, please can you tell me how to water it down. How much paint to how much water. I had my front room done a while back and he said, "It's much to thick to use straight from the can, so he poured some in a seperate pot and added some water. It only needed...

A couple of months ago I put up coving in the front room. I was well pleased with the out come, especially after I painted it (white). Even now looking at it, it's impossible to see the joins, either corner ones or the flat ones. the paint has totally hidden the joins. After I finished I put...

I put coving up in one room and it was fine because I only had to cut normal corners with the help of a mitre block. The room I'm doing next has got a couple of odd angles, not actual internal or external corners of 90 degrees. A bit like the corners on a 50 pence piece. Is their a trick or...

I am laying a laminate floor and I have reached the row where I need to cut holes for radiator pipes. Hole drills are very expensive, especially as I will probably never need to use it again. What about 'flat drill bits', they are much cheaper. Would they work on laminate board, cutting a decent...

Can somebody please explain why it is such a bad idea to lay cardboard down on bare floorboards as an underlay prior to laying a laminated floor. Plenty of people told me it is a bad idea but no one actually told me WHY I shouldn't do it. I would select cardboard boxes all the same size...

I hope I'm in the right place with this post. I want to ask a question that someone in the trade will be able to answer for me. PVA paint, does that mean anything to one of the regular experts that frequent the DIYNOT forums. I was advised that if I used it , it would stop the streaks and...

I have painted my walls with 3 coats 'Johnstones' matt wall and ceiling paint.I actually painted over the wallpaper that was there because I just recently came out of hospital and wanted to get it out of the way asap. After a while, once it dried, it has gone all streaky and patchy. When I first...

I recently moved into a one bed bungalow and intend to decorate everything myself nice and slowly, at a pace to suit both my stamina and my pocket. The front room had this hideous wallpaper, when I first saw it, I thought the wall had damp patches all over until upon closer examination I...

I recently moved into a new place. Where I lived before I was upstairs in one room and because of an accident my telly was important to me. So as soon as freeview and digiboxes came out, I bought one. But I wasn't getting a continuously good reception so I contacted an aerial guy to come and put...

I bought some laminate flooring at b&q to lay in my new home which I recently moved into. Previously I was in one room, so now I'm having to completely do up and furnish a one bed bungalow from scratch and it's costing a packet, so naturally I need to save every penny I possibly can. I was...

I recently moved to a new address and in the front, instead of grass and earth, it's got pebbles like some beaches. Now that should be ideal for someone like me who has lived in a flat most of his life but, their are quite a few weeds and grass growing out of it in patches here and there. It...

Hi everyone, this is my first post on diynot, hope I'm in the right place. In the next few weeks I'm moving into a bungalow which I'm renting off the council and for the first year I'm not alowed to make any changes but the concrete drive in front is dirty. I reckon previous tenant parked an old...