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I want to build a drop-down desk. The best way I could describe it would be a large cassette case mounted on the wall! Can anyone suggest some hinges I could use to ideally offer some counterbalance to the weight of the desk?

Yeah, so our idiot builders' latest f##k-up was to select the most useless planks for the most heavily-trafficked, most visible area of our new wooden floor. Now this is happening - is there anything we can do? I was wondering if there was some kind of glue/varnish we could apply to bond...

Hi. I'm hoping some experts can help. We're paying for a wooden floor to be fitted. It's costing £36 labour per square meter to fit (more than the wood cost!). This is what the threshold to the bathroom looks like:- Close ups of the bottom of the door frame:- ........... I was...

We are hoping to move our combi-boiler from where it is now low down on an external wall, to higher up on the adjacent wall. Currently the flue comes out the top of the boiler and straight out through a hole in the external wall directly above the boiler. Our builder suggested that when he...

Hi there, sorry if this has been asked a lot before. Even just pointers to other resources would be very welcome. We live on the second (top) floor of a small block of flats. Our water pressure is not great. We seem to get just under 1 bar (at least thatt's what the boiler registers). We...

Very similar to the other thread but that one seemed to go more the way of "If you've already had the work done, why are you questioning cost now?" We want to get a small (2500mmx1500mmx2800mm height) bathroom refurbished. Currently it is:- Lino floors over concrete Some boxwork which...

Hi there, I've don e a bit of reading round the problem but can't find definitive answers and I was wondering if someone could help. I want to have a decent powerful shower. We live in a 2nd storey flat in London. We have a Remeha Avanta Plus 28c combi boiler (DHW Flow Rate at 35°C Rise –...

Hi there. I'm hoping someone might be able to help. I want to build a sofa similar to this one: and the back I know nothing about working with wood so I've been reading and researching. It looks like it's lap jointed planks, which I presume are doweled and glued to each other...