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Hi all. Have battened out my room in preperation for laying solid oak 120mm tongue and groove flooring using the secret nailing approach. Im a bit confused as to what you do when a floor board end does not finish on a joist. My packs of flooring come in variable sized board lengths meaning that...

Hi, I have a room which is a conversion of an old garage. The concrete floor is about 2" lower at one end. I already tried using self-levelling compound but this ended up cracking. Ive taken that all up now so im back to the original gradient. What my current thinking is to batton the floor at...

Hi guys im back. I have decided to lay wooden floor in my garage conversion. The previous owner had converted the garage into a new room but did not level the old concrete floor. To get a good finish on my to be new wooden floor i new it had to be levelled. I would say that the garage floor...

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Hi all - new question for you. ?i have hung some new knotty solid pine doors and would like to paint white. There are no suitable instructions with the doors about painting and im finding it difficult to find any discussions for painting doors. Basically i would like to apply a white...

Hi all, im on my last job for the god damn house, yipee, but its a corker. I ordered loads of solid oak flooring to lay in my living room. Thats all I got comming at the mo since i know i have to leave it sitting for a few days to aclimatise. My questions are: 1) Do I need to use underlay and...

Hi all, I have a very simple problem and would like to find the best way of solving. I have just had a fireplace installed and need to run a 3-amp fused spur for it powerflue fan. Obviously this is in my living room and the distance from the nearest socket on the ring main is only about 400...

Hi all. I recently had my kitchen tiled and discovered that the kitchen worktop was not flat. There were not enough tiles to cope with this so tiling was performed on a level from the highest point of the worktop against the wall. The kitchen units are fitted to a U shape with the sink starting...

Hi all, this morning at about 5.00am - 6.00am I heard a load bang/crack. I have no idea where it came from but dissmissed due to our sometimes noisy central heating system. When my wife woke she mentioned this bang to me and now im on a mission to determine its cause. Ill eliminate a few...

Hi, just grouted my bathroom but have noticed that lines are appearing in the grout perfectly center between adjoing tiles. From a previous thread i saw that it is because im using a ready mixed adhesive and grout formula from Wicks which is bad. I decided to use it only because i did not want...

At the request of my wife, i recently installed a towel rail radiator in my upstairs bathroom. The only problem was that the existing pipe-work spacing of the old radiator did not match; no bending of the pipe-work was acceptable. This resulted in cutting into the bathroom floor to access...

At the request of my wife, i recently installed a towel rail radiator in my upstairs bathroom. The only problem was that the existing pipe-work spacing of the old radiator did not match; no bending of the pipe-work was acceptable. This resulted in cutting into the bathroom floor to access...