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    Bare pine doors need to be varnished

    whats a good coloured varnish to use on three new doors we have had fitted, i will be varnishing them in the garage as we ahev a baby so really a varnish that can take drying somewhere that may not be 100% dry and not heated is needed. thinking Ronseal diamond, do they need to be thinned at...
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    cable run and water pipes

    need to channel in some 8mm central heating pipes, and they are just where i want to fit a new lightswitch, can i run the cable down the same channel or do they need to be kept a set distance apart??
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    channeling 8mm central heating pipes

    We are redoing a room and currently have the central heating pipes in trunking running on the outside of wall. to put them into the wall and then have them plastered in do i need to put them into trunking again or can i just pin them to the brick itself. will the plaster attack the copper pipes...
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    selecting a WC to replace high level

    Hi all how much do i need to worry about the distance from the wall to the soil pipe of the pan in referance to the cistern?? ie the soil pipe coming out our wall is 170mm from the wall, and has some sort of sealing ring on it, its old and metel, but alot of the modern toilets with inbuilt...
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    Gordan brown tax petition

    sorry but this Tax has really annoyed me, i don`t mind paying but putting the money into general slush fund, please! if this is a green tax Mr Brown spend it on green issues, lets get the public transport system in this country working for a start. if you feel similar sign this petition, he...
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    Oil/wax for stair case

    High all I have just spent 7 months unboxing our staircase in our new house, i then stripped off the 4 layers of lead paint, hot air gun and paint stripper, not at the same time, (note to self, never use paint stripper again) and have now sanded them done to remove the first layer of horrible...
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    crack covering paint

    High all, i have a small ceiling that is extreamly lumpy and cracked, have seen in homebase dulux paint for covering servere cracks, and also some for painting and smoothing over an artex ceiling, any one ever used this stuff, it is applied with a soft plastic spreader and i am worried that...
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    Cracking of new ceiling plaster

    We have just had an bedroom skimmed of a 1930s house, all the walls and ceiling are good but a crack has started to develop over the last few days, from the centre lighting rose across the whole ceiling, human hair size at the moment, the old plaster wasn`t great, but seemed solid if not always...
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