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Hello, I have a problem related to the tiling of a shower recess on a loft conversion that I am having built. The first problem is that one of the walls that has been tiled is a plastered wall housing a pocket door and is therefore subject to vibration of the door opening and closing and the...

Hello, Does anyone care to offer an opinion on which is the best quality exterior masonry paint? I am looking for a smooth white exterior paint to redo the front of my house. It has a pebble dash surface at the top and brickwork at the bottom and has got an existing coat of paint on it which...

Hello, I am having a loft converted and plan to have two sets of LV halogen track lights installed to be controlled by two 2 gang 2-way dimmer switches at either end of the room. Could someone please confirm if this is technically possible as I searched this forum and there appears to be an...

Hi folks, I just bought a (metal) light fitting that has a central 3 core wire connection and a shorter seperate earth connection. I have not seen two earth wires like this before. I was planning on doing the electrical connection in the floor space above the chandelier as there isn't much...

Please could someone clarify the requirement for self closing doors when you have a loft conversion. I read somewhere that all the doors in the house have to be fitted with a self closing device butthen I read somewhere else that in fact only the door into the new loft area needs to be self...

I have just painted a newly plastered ceiling with some Dulux Flexicover that I had knocking about. The plaster had been drying for about a month and I diluted it first in lieu of using plaster sealer. However was about to put a second coat on (undiluted) and noticed a small nip which I took of...

Hi, I just wanted to see if people had any opinions about tiling around a window in a long thin bathroom where the window in not in the centre of one of the thinner walls. Do you either centre the tiles ignoring the window or have a balanced design around the window so that you have equal sized...

This is probably a silly question but could someone tell me if there is specific way of tiling round all 4 walls in a room. I have done one wall and wondered if you start next on the facing wall or whether you just work round in rotation? My worry about working round in rotation is that...

Hello, Please could someone help by giving me a rough idea of how long I should leave to dry (a) 2/3 coat plaster which is against brickwork, and (b) plasterboard and skimmed top coat which will also be against brickwork on one wall and lathe batons on another wall. My intention is to tile...

Hi, I would like to permanently connect an external wall mounted halogen heater. I have an existing outside security light so I was thinking of breaking the connection to this with a waterproof junction box and running one cable out to the light and another cable out to the heater with an...