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Anyone any advice please on a good general purpose sander? My most immediate jobs are prepping a discoloured patio table for varnishing and stripping old paint off some doors.

Andy - Yes, it's a false ceiling (panelled wood); about 2.1m high at present

The ceiling in my daughter's bathroom (flat in Glasgow) is quite low, making the room a bit claustrophobic. No idea why it was done like this (probably 20 years ago or more). If we raise it, is there a legal minimum loft space that needs to be left? The extractor fan ducting and some electric...

Thanks very much for all the help - problem solved. Turned out the switch was there all the time - but was malfunctioning!!

Live to L, neutral to N

Checked the terminals. The wiring going into the fan is normal L, N and earth. But I now see the isolator is single pole - I assume it should be double?

Hi - just fitted a new Airvac (B&Q) NTX 100T bathroom/toilet fan to my daughter's flat, to replace a very old bathroom ceiling fan which had stopped working - but the thing refuses to work! When I pull the isolation switch cord, I see a brief flicker of light in the indicator on the fan, but no...

Got an Advent 5401 laptop recently and bought a Belkin wireles router to go with it (have cable modem for my old PC). When I run the Belkin CD, my PC tells me that the wireless capability is switched off. It says turn by "using a switch, which is usually found on front or side of the...

I've just bought a new pump/motor for a Triton T90si on the internet but the electrical terminal assembly on it is different to the one in the existing (old) shower. On it, there are 2 terminals - one front left, to which a blue wire is connected, and one back right, to which the brown wire is...