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my house was refurbished about 35 yrs ago, i have since taken down some ot the plasterboard on my landing to do some electrics. thinking i could just replace the plasterboard, but it is about 5mm thick, and the thinnest i could replace it with is 9.5mm. any ideas.?

i am having a patio laid at the bottom of the garden nowhere near the house, the area is 6 x 5 metre squared, should i put some sort of drainage in. i am having a slight fall put on it.

we are just about to put an unvented cylinder in, and i am having trouble working out where the discharge can go after the tundish, discharge will be in 22mm and go through a wall, under a bath and i want to put it into the 40mm waste from the bath. i thought i would put a t in the 40mm waste...

im no good in the garden, but its gotta be done this year, i want to put paving slabs down for a shed and a path, some grass, some gravel, i was thinking of putting some gravel board down on edge, and making compartments, then putting some weedstopper sheet and then filling the compartments with...

hope im in the right forum, ive got a reallytricky t- piece to put into my central heating pipework, tricky meaning its hard to get to, i noticed that the tectite push fit is the same price as the yorkshire fitting, but it would be handy if i could twist the fitting like you can on a hep20...

i know this question has been skirted round before, its the one where i want to fit battens to the wall so that i dont have to cut out for a load of surface pipes in an ex council flat. obviously talking about the base units,(this is an IKEA kitchen), im going to put 2x2 round the wall, but...

i have a rudimentary knowledge of electrics, but my lighting circuit is a bit confusing, its a council leasehold flat within a block and the council did a bit of renovation about 20 yrs ago including electrics. i went to change the light switch in the kitchen from white switch to chrome...

neighbour bought an emachine, now wants to put speakers on it, hasnt got anything at the moment, looks like a realtek sound card, with single coloured ports for speakers to plug in , my question is should i try and get realtek speakers or can i use the speakers on my own computer which are...

i promised to go shopping with my neighbour to buy a home computer, but before we could make arrangements, feeling bored one saturday afternoon, she took herself to currys and bought a thing. its an emachine 64x2 dual core processor, running on vista, (pre-installed). this will be a machine...

hi guys... i want to put some vinyl tiles down, but the tiles underneath are stuck with bitumen, floor is concrete, tiles are 90 sound but there was some water damage. so some old tiles are cracked and lifting. 1. what can i do about the gaps when i lift the loose vinyl tiles. 2.can i...

just laid my first laminate floor, and it looks great. well i think it does, i took my time and put some work in... now i want to look after it, have bought those felt strips to put under the furniture, but its a bedroom, is there any way i can protect the floor against those horrible plastic...

just taken over a flat with no main lights ... only wall lights, and a rather large storecupboard has no lights at all, i wish to run a dedicated light from a spare in the metal consumer unit (with metal pipe coming out of it) in round plastic pipe and then adaptor to plastic trunking, do they...

just fitted tank and cylinder to connect to combi for power shower. can anybody recommend a site on the web that will give me a guide as to how to wire up the 2 port valve via thermostat via boiler .. thanks.

dads left me his flat, im keen to let it, im not lazy (honest... well maybe a little bit), but i need to paint the whole flat, its got wallpaper, but there is a nice pencil ripple effect on the wallpaper which i would like to keep, can i paint over wallpaper, dont care how many coats i have to...

bought the washing machine about 3 yrs ago, well pleased with it, the council sent some workers in to fit a kitchen. pulled and manhandled the washing machine about. fitted the kitchen (my butcher could have done a better job), put the w.machine back. since then, we get a loud alarm going off...

am sure you techies will find this a stupid question, but me and the wife know little about computers and are not on the net. we are having a foreign student stay with us for 6 months, he needs the internet, we are reluctant to start up an account, what i want to know is if he buys a laptop, can...