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    New floorboards on old floorboards.

    I have read a similar answer to a similar question posted in 2006 but thought that I would start a fresh thread as the last became a slanging match. We were going to sand and varnish the boards in our living room, but we are now coming to the following conclusions. Due to the room being made...
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    Sockets in our living room.

    Besides my lighting problems I am also replacing ALL the sockets in the room. The walls currently have no plaster so I am going to fit 25mm deep boxes 450mm up the wall. The wall is to be "dot and dabbed". The question is, do I have to run the cable from one socket to the next, under the...
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    Light Switch

    Hi, Our living room has two ceiling lights and two wall lights. The switches for all four lights are in one unit. We want to remove the wall lights and therefore reduce the switch down to just two. I know which switches operate which light but cant work out which wires I do not need. Does...
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    Plastering

    At the moment I am making a right mess in my living room! The house was built in the thirties and had the original plaster coving around the ceiling that my dear wife decided had to go. I have now removed it all but this has made a mess of some of the walls where the old lime plaster has come...
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