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I just bought the wrong ones. I didn't check which I needed before I bought them, the shop only sold 20w and above so I got the 20w. It was a mistake.

Thank you both for your help. You're absolutely right, I had replaced them with 20w instead of 10w. I'll go and get some new bulbs now.

Hiya You should allow any timber brought in to your house, acclimatise to the room that it will be fixed in. Depending on the moisture content of the timber, I'd allow a week for it to settle down. It will move but you can limit the amount of movement by proper stacking, lay them flat on...

I agree, it depends on what you have in your tool box, and what the door is made out of. If it's a solid timber door and you have a power plane, i'd do three passes with the power plane at 4mm and finish off with either a smoothing or jack plane. If it's a hollow door, the ones with the...

Hiya After recently changing 5 out of the 12 Diall Halogen bulbs in our ceiling light, the lights now turn themselves out, and back on again on their own, it's not like being in a disco, they'll stay on for something like 20 minutes and then turn off for 20 minutes, then back on again and so...

Hi We have just moved in to a house that has had the central heating emptied for the past few weeks (apparently, it was emptied because the house has been empty for a few weeks or something). Will it be ok to just fill the system back up and leave it at that or would it be better to give it a...

Ahoy hoy 6 x 2 should be more than enough, I'm sure you've looked at the following link and others like it, but this is what i'd work to. http://www.jamesjones.co.uk/jjuploads/files/KD%20C16%20Softwood%20Span%20Tables.pdf

I do, thank you, I just wanted it confirming.

That's it, without access under the stairs to tighten up the wedges, a couple of screws through the tread in to the riser should stop the squeak. Hope this helps.

I'd fit the dors first and then the carpet just to avoid getting wood shavings all over your new floor. If they need to be eased at the bottom then I'd mark how much to take off, take them outside and then plane them. Only if there are no hinge cut outs on the frames or if they were in...

This is probably just down to the door casing or lining not being plumb and so the weight of the door naturally makes it want to 'fall' open. There's no great way to fix it to be honest, you could move the bottom hinge away from the rebate in an attempt to bring the door back in to plumb, the...

Tung Oil will do the job. Personally, I have just always used either Sikkens or Sadolin. I believe Oak should only go black if left unprotected or if it has anything other than brass or stainless steel fixings in it.

I did mean the Polycell base paint. I was just lazily hoping that I didn't have to put the effort in to scraping it off. Thank you for your help.

Hello. We have stripped the wallpaper in my daughter’s room to re-decorate and uncovered old, flaky plaster covered with what I believe is Polycell basecoat which is itself peeling quite a lot as well. We’d like the walls to be re skimmed but we’re not sure whether we can just PVA the walls...

Hello. We have stripped the wallpaper in my daughter’s room to re-decorate and uncovered old, flaky plaster covered with what I believe is Polycell basecoat which is itself peeling quite a lot as well. We’d like the walls to be re skimmed but we’re not sure whether we can just PVA the walls and...