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just had a light oak wooden floor laid in our hallway ,whats best to put on to seal it .wax or clear satin varnish will take a lot of traffic so want something durable..

ive got a lot of mahogany stained woodwork that needs repainting with white gloss,doors,frames,skirtings and staircase.what is the best way to go about this ,in the past ive sanded down 1 coat oil based undercoat then 1 coat quick drying undercoat followed by 1 gloss coat. Finish is ok but don't...

ive got 3 warning lights on my Vaux vivaro dash service/diesel filter/emissions,ive just had it serviced/mot and garage cant reset warning lights.They Say its engine management fault which doesn't help me they said they had it connected to the diagnostics but still couldn't reset faults,any...

what is a fair price to pay to have our rads balanced ,we live in a average 3 bed semi.im fed up of being ripped off just been quoted £700 labour to change a shower to a bath with shower over and swap the basin plumber said would take 2 days. [/b]

if the plastering is no good no matter how many coats of paint you put on it will never look good ,cross line it and repaint best way to go...

I have just grouted my bathroom ,we have a feature strip of tiles over bath that are ribbed horizontaly unfortunately grout has dried in these tiny grooves and looks crap now and is really hard to remove .\any ideas on removing this grout from tile grooves without spoiling tiles.

im having a disagreemnt with a fellow decorator regarding painting doorframes or windows. I say you should paint the back edge of the door frame or window frame only , if it opens outwards away from you . He say's you should always paint the back edge even if the door or window opens inwards ...

sounds like either the washer is stuck , i did change it recently or the spindle ,some things not opening or closing the tap . i will take it apart when i get chance .

the hot water tap in our bathroom turns full open and closed but no water comes out . the hot feed is on.

cold is fine and all other hot taps in house fine ,just kitchen mixer has no pressure

not sure as we have only recently moved in to this house

we have a trickle of water coming from our kitchen mixer tap ,a plumber told us it was a faulty tap which he changed for us. The flow is a little better not much though .The plumber now tells us that the hot water is gravity fed from upstairs emersion tank .Is there anyway we can get some...

i have a samsung srs 2028css fridge freezer and the problem is water is collecting in the base which I have to mop out every 2 to 3 days. Any ideas please?

We have a ZIp instantanious water heater in our flat ,since fitting a mixer tap and non return valves it has started playing up and say's its over heating . Has anyone heard of these heaters.??? Is there anything else we could use to heat our water as we are all electric ,we had a emersion...

if its a large pattern print , start in the middle . Find the centre by measuring in from both sides and draw a vertical line with plumbob or spirit level and paper from this line .

Im having trouble finding replacement bulbs for our kitchen light fitting . The bulbs i require are MR 11 + C 12v 20w , I can get MR 11s but they dont fit the +C bulbs seem to have longer thiner fitting prongs. I have tried loads of outlets but no joy ,,any help would be very welcome,,thanks .

I have a push button pneumatic toilet cistern which will not shut off properly. It keeps trickling water down the central overflow. Ive tried adjusting the screw on top of the float mecanisim which helped a bit but it still overflows. Is there a washer that can be replaced as in ordinary ball...

Hi im a professional decorator and i do work for laura ashley and im not to keen on their wallpaper, the only thing i find is to let it soak well so it fully expands and dont brush it out to much .

Thanks for link ,, v/good site.

Hi, can anyone supply me with the radio code for a peugeot 206, the radio serial No is CL 041010277778. thanks