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    Coving a severely slanted ceiling!

    Hi all, Looking for some advice from you can spare it. I have just gone and bought some 127mm supercove to do my bathroom and found the ceiling is slanted ..a lot. I marked up the walls again from the lowest mark using a level and the ceiling is off by 2.5inch at one side of the room As this...
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    Stripping slate roof

    hi all, I'm about to undertake stripping half an old garage slate roof before it's demolished and looking for some tips from the pros. I was going to work off my roof ladders as a builder who is on site has a dodgy manitoo with an even more dodgy work basket that's falling to pieces that I...
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    Light tripping when turned off

    hi I'm trying to help my in laws but installing a light a switch in their garage. I've run all the cables and when I turned the CU back on the light came on fine. When I switch it off it trips!?? Can some kind soul help
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    Demolishing half a garage

    Need advice on demolishing half a garage correctly. In laws are building a new house on their land and half of a large old working garage needs to come down to make space. They have a builder coming to build a wall halfway up the garage to ensure it's water tight before removing the slates...
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    Help changing out door entry handset

    trying (and failing) to change out an old videx handset for a bell 801 Can anyone help to tell me which wires go where?! I cut the cable before taking it off to see where the old wires went in the videx Stupidly presumed it would be a straight swap
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    Broken slates on roof after roofer...

    Hope someone can help.. Going to try to keep this to the point as there's a lot of detail that will end up dragging on.. Had roofer round, he broke slates from walking on our roof whilst he was up there repointing a couple of skews (never used roofing ladders) He's denying the fact even...
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