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Hello, it's been a while since I posted on here! Sorry - this is a longish post. After ten+ years of renovation I proudly declared our 1920's build terraced house "finished" in summer last year. However, having had a good look around, it would seem that my satisfaction will be short lived, due...

Afternoon. Noted the post below about replacing sealant, this is slightly different. Recently fitted uPVC window and door into brick wall. "Everbuild" silicone sealant was used which I have noted is peeling away by itself (probably due to some sort of shrinkage in the sun). I need to get this...

Good afternoon all. We have a Vokera Syntesi 35 combi that has been installed for about 6 years. Over that time it has been rather reliable but there have been a couple of niggles that I have never got to the bottom of despite visits from a couple of heating engineers. I thought I'd see if I...

Hi When a length is quoted for a bowsaw blade is this the end to end length, the distance between the fitting pins, or the length of the toothed section of the blade? I need a new one and am a bit confused. Thanks for any advice

I recently got some doors in a sale but am not ready to hang them. Do I need to store them flat or will they be OK leaned against the wall for a couple of months? Thanks

Hi I posted in the alarms thread regarding a smoke alarm which had decided to go off by itself early one morning, but am still none the wiser. The alarm, which is an ioniser type, has spent many years in a dusty environment; my question is would vacuuming this be effective (of course...

Good Morning We were awoken today at 0500 by one of the smoke alarms going off. Jumped out of bed and it stopped. Checked the house, no problem. 20 minutes later it does the same. So I have killed the power via the RCD, took the alarm off and removed the battery. But can't go back to...

I want to puit a hedge around the garden (probably coniferous) and some of this will be positioned in front of a useless old "waney lap" type fence. When the trees grow out will the presence of this fence curb the growth in that direction or will they simply grow through it? I don't plan...

I'm planning to build a cabinet/cupboard round the boiler. Are there any guidelines regarding ventilation, air admittance etc?

I am after a relatively low price laptop, either 2nd hand, refurbished or even new if I can get something the right price. New machines I have considered are around the £300 price tag, for the 2nd hand/re furb I am looking at £150-200. I am bemused by some of the spec, which is where I am...

I've got my IP44 fan to go in the hole in the wall. The wiring from the previous fan is ready to connect and............confusion. The previous fan was a IP?? rated model with a timer built in. It had 3 core and earth cable feeding it via a triple (I think) pole isolating switch. The new...

I've moved the bathroom suite around and as a consequence the locations of the different zones has changed. This means that the extractor fan is now located approx 8 foot high above zone 1. This is effectively on the border between zones 1 and 2. The fan I have is IP44 rated, mains voltage...

I have Mcafee Internet/total security 2008. Within this is a virus scan software which has somehow decided to perform a scheduled scan every Friday morning. If I leave the PC on overnight it runs in the early hours, however if my missus switches the PC on in the morning to work from home...

I will be grouting up a tiled shower area (4mm spacers) with BAL superflex grout. BAL's "general grout" leaflet indicates that the grout should be left for 14 days before the shower is used. This is going to be extremely inconvenient - the bath was removed over two weeks ago (suite has been...

I am having a dilemma with a close coupled WC. I have assembled the job exactly as drawn in the paltry instructions (thanks a lot Bathst*re :x ) and it is not working! The problem centres around the cistern outlet and pan entry point. Water is leaking out from somewhere. I have a doughnut...

Other than poor area coverage, are there any downfalls of having thick beds of adhesive on wall tiles? The reason I ask is that I think I have been a bit generous with it!! Not quite got the hang of using the notched trowel and may have been mixing it a bit on the thick side. Looks OK...

Put half a dozen wall tiles on today and noticed some adhesive in the lines between the tile which should obviously be filled with grout at the end. I'm wondering whether this will make a balls up of the grouting - will it? If so how do I remove it when I lay more tiles tomorrow? Is it a real...

I'm ripping out the old T&G pine, ready for 25mm ply for tiling on. The end joist, shown in the pics, has some dry rot present along the top edge. This can be seen in the second photo, at the left hand end where it's about 1/4" deep. It has also penetrated where nails have held the boards...

I've four mains voltage downlights (IP65 rated) for the bathroom. From what I have read on here they're not exactly flavour of the month, however I'm a little unsure what to do regarding wiring them up. The current light is a shoddy fluorescent fitting which I think is linked to a ceiling...

Confusion reigns once again after reading through the BAL adhesive calculator on their website. :? (http://www.bal-adhesives.co.uk/bal/pdfs/specifier_literature/BAL_Adhesive_Calculator_path.pdf) I've looked up the types of adhesive and the coverage figures are quoted for dry and wet areas...