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I have a large garage door some of which is knotty pine. Looked bloody awful when we moved in with the sap oozing out of it everywhere so I sanded it with 80 right back to wood where knots came through, then used 2 applications of Ronseal Colron knotting solution. Then I spot primed with 2...

Hi Our house was wired up in about 2005. We have a consumer unit with one RCD. We have some outdoor lighting that is all connected to the house with armored cable There is an IP65 junction box that then runs non-armored mains voltage to 5 up lighters in our decking, each is about 2m from the...

Hi, I have an outhouse that was wired by an electrician fairly recently It had 2 lights inside it, a ceiling & wall light I removed the ceiling light, and just taped up the wires that connected to it, as I don't want a ceiling light in there any more, then plastered them up in the ceiling...

I am looking at a small project to open a kitchen up. At present there is a free-standing cooker with hob against the (non-structural) wall that divides the two rooms. It is in the middle of a run of base units. I would like to knock the wall down to have a ‘peninsula’ effect, with the...

Hi all, Just looking at a 1950's house that needs everything & I do mean everything doing to it! What is the correct order to do these tasks, here is my stab... * Knock down stud walls (reconfigure rooms) * Plumbing (boiler, radiators) * Electrics * Skim ceilings (Artex, will hae to...

Hi there I am buying a detached house with garage & there is parking for 2 cars on the drive so I thought I'd look into making the garage into more useful space. I do not want to turn it into a habitable room with windows, more just make it a bit nicer to use as a utility than it is now...

Hi, I have steel crittal windows - the ones in the bathroom are quite rusty. Was planning to restore them as follows: * Use nitromors or similar to strip all paint * Scrape off remaining paint, sand off any rust * paint with zinc rustproof paint * paint with a new paint Does this look...

Hi, I am about to have secondary glazing installed in my bedroom for sound purposes (live near flightpath). I need to ventilate the room so we get fresh air. Is this type of device suitable - it's a single room heat exchanging ventilator. Don't want anything too loud so this looks good...

Hi everyone, I live in SW London in a 2nd floor Art Deco period flat, and due to proximity to flight path into heathrow find aircraft noise wakes me up sometimes. We live in Richmond 8 miles from Heathrow so we're not right underneith the planes but I am a light sleeper. I have had 2 quotes...