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Hi I've just bought a new oak front door. The door comes with multi point locking and is intended to be fitted with a euro cylinder type lock. The door is 55mm thick and the multi point mechanism is in the centre of the door. I want to fit levers on a backplate. The backplate on either side of...

Hi Have just replaced my 12 year old integrated Neff fridge/freezer. The new Neff unit is slightly deeper and fouls on the socket fitted to the wall behind the unit. What can I do about this ? I can't move the socket because there isn't any cable slack. I was therefore thinking that I could...

Hi I need to fit a cat flap into a back door. The door is original to a house built in 2002. The door has a metal skin on the inside and outside. The bottom half of the door has 2 side by side recessed mouldings. See (hopefully) picture: I want to fir the cat flap in the centre of the...

Hi I want to use some 20mm galvanised conduit as a long run (6m) of curtain rail ! Am not sure that this is strictly the correct place to post this but since conduit is normally used to run wiring I has hoping for a good response here. I want to install a curtain rail in an old...

Hi Just moved to a new house (1990s build). Need to fit some venetian blinds to 2 windows. The supplied fittings only allow me to do a top fixing. I've made a small hole to see what the lintel is made of. It seems to be metal. I haven't tried drilling into it. Looking at the...

Hi I've just replaced 2 light fittings in my house. Both fittings were connected to a 2 way switching arrangement. The first fitting (on the landing) has a cable (red, black, earth) coming in (from another light fitting) and another cable (also red, black, earth) going out (to another...