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Just had our bathroom refurbished, and going to decorate ourselves the problem is the tiler has got smears of sealant on the bare plastered adjoining wall in the corners where the walls meet. I have read these corners should have just been grouted but there you go. What i would like to know is...

Hi all, We have just had a bathroom refit with a thermostatic shower bar fitted which i am not happy with the flow we are getting from the new shower, our old shower was an old mixer shower from the taps and used to be powerful but the flow on the new bar shower is no where near as good. The...

Just looking into having a new bathroom overhaul and i am going to lower the ceiling and having it plasterboarded and skimmed, i am going to do the bulk of lowering the ceiling work and then just get a plasterer to skim it over. What i would like advice on is am i planning this correctly. ...

Hi all, Any help on the following would be most appreciative. Just finished decorating a bedroom at my daughters and the last job is i want to change the plastic socket face plates for new plastic ones the trouble is that the earth wires connected to the face plate are very short and fitting a...

Anyone with any ideas on the following, I need to move the pull light switch in the bathroom to accommodate a new cupboard I am building but having removed the switch cover there is very little wire coming out of the...

Just finished decorating passage way and landing and want to put a new two switch light switch in to work both the passage light and upstairs landing light as the one up looks a bit grubby. The thing is at the moment the left hand switch as you look at it works the upstairs landing light which i...

Having just started to decorate the hallway and removed the radiator ( bypass one ) the one with no trv on it, am i right in thinking it is still alright to run the central heating should it get cold as long as i always have at least one radiator open at all times.

At the moment i am in the process of decorating our hall way and landing and have removed the radiator for the time being, this radiator has no TRV fitted but as the nights and mornings are starting to get a little colder i am being told by the boss that she wants the heating back on. Can i...

Wonder if anyone can shed any light ( excuse the pun ) as to why sometimes our house lighting is ok, nice and bright yet sometimes is very dull. Do we have a problem somewhere.

I am wanting to add a light to the under stairs cupboard and was wondering if the following would be ok ?? I have bought a small strip light with its own built in switch so no additional switch would be required and in the cupboard we have a FSU that the intruder alarm comes from via the...

Hi all, we are in the process of changing all our internal doors for the white moulded six panel type and have found them quite reasonably priced at Wicks etc but the problem we are having is finding one to fit our under the stairs cupboard which we need one of 72" x 24" but can not find any...

I am in the process of planning a project to get stuck into over the next few months and was hoping if any one can keep me on the right tracks or input any advice and tips on my project, We live in a mid terraced house that has had the loft floor boarded out with t & g chipboard on cross...

anyone any ideas of the best cable detector to buy ive heard good reports of the bosch multimeter and have seen it on amazon for £35 so not too bad if it does as good a job as it states

My daughter has just moved into a new house and i have been round to plumb her washing machine in but has anyone any ideas why when the machine is emptying their is an over flow up over the stand pipe of soap suds, the stand pipe has a u-bend at the bottom and then rigged into the sink drainage...

Has anyone any ideas why i am always being redirected to a different web site other than the one i am searching for through google. I am fully covered by virgin media pc guard and regular scans are schedueld and run for anti virus and spyware etc.but nothing is showing why i am being...

I have just replaced my old omnicron 7000 control panel with the above and very neat and tidy it looks compaired to the ugly thing we used to have, the question i would like to ask is whilst the optima g4 has 8 wireable zones i only need to use 4 and even though as i have read in the installer...

I am wondering if anyone has any ideas regarding a problem my daughter has with her bay window wall. The external wall under the bay window is pebble dashed with a stone cill sitting on top then a upvc double glazed unit sitting on top of this, where the protruding bay wall meets the main...

Has anyone any ideas why the following has happened, today i have been fitting a strip light in the loft which works fine as do all the other lights in the house, but the problem is , is that my intruder alarm is not ommitting any sound from the internal control panel apart from a very very...

Just recently finished tiling and grouting the bathroom which i must say have not done a bad job after noting help from a previous post i sent, but my only problem i now have is the white waterproof grout looks beautiful and white when dry but when the shower has been used the grout goes a dirty...

I hope someone out their will be able to help regarding my dilema, I am wanting to replace the light fitting in the bathroom with a proper zone 2 flush light fitting which i have purchased but when i undid the old light fitting inside was a choc block with 3 loop in lives into one of the...