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I don't want to take them of as they look fine, but in rooms yet to decorated I don't want this problem again. look a lot of work to remove them and re fix. The walls are a mixture of stud walls and dot and dab. Stud internal but not that many as there's strucktural walls. Frame fixings sound...

hi folks. We recently had a new carpet laid. When the carpet was tamped under the skirting boards to grip the gripper strips. The skirting pivoted. The top pulled away and the bottom pushed under the plaster board with the force of securing the carpet. I could be knocked back to its correct...

Hi Folks My Upvc french doors (open inwards) the centre cover strip does not cover the gap between the doors on the bottom half due to the frame being fitted twisted and the hinges were adjusted to level the doors. There's cold air coming thought the gap. I ve looked for a wider cover...

ok thanks for the answers. Its not practical. Thanks

As heated towel rail are generaly pronee to traping air and require regular bleeding. Could a toiwel rauil be conected to the hot water circuit, then when the tap is run the towel rail will be flushed/self bleed? Just wondering if it can or should be done etc. Cheers

I read on another forum about the triac being blown with a surge of current when the bulb blows. Any ideas about this? Or who supplies good quality lights that will with stand this problem ?

I ve had an outside light with a built in pir working fine for 7 years. The bulb blew which I replaced. The light no longer responds to the pir sensor it's on permanently night or day. The light only reacts to the pir no dusk settings etc. I ve tried various combinations of switch it on and...

Hi folks I ve got 2 kitchen base units back to back as an island in my workshop. I am fitting 2 work tops back to back on top of the units. I am going to use biscuits and work top bolts underneath to pull the join together as is usually done. The problem I have is routing a straight edge so...

The limpets only require a 4mm hole about 10mm deep in the safe skin, and the hole taped out for machine screw. I not yet found a drill up to the job.

Check to panel lid is on correctly and the battery correctly connected. Or open the panel lid and hold down the tamper switch or tape it down this will prove if the lid was not on correctly. Then do the reset as on lid. If it clears the tamper will re occur when released again to secure the lid...

How would you mount a safe limpet on a safe. They supply 4mm machine screw that need a 4mm drill and tap to make a threaded hole. Tricky to drill safes!! How would you mount one? Cheers

Thanks for the reply's. I had wondered about the joists transferring cold to the floor. There is also a vertical panel behind the sink which runs the width of the garage which will need similar treatment.

Hi Folks My house has an en suite bathroom above the garage. There's rockwool between the joists and 2 layers of plasterboard for the fire reg's. The bathroom gets cold in the winter so I want to improve the insulation. I was thinking of using 150mm thick celotex/kingspan between the...

Which of the digital room thermostats do you folks use/recomend? Many thanks

Hi Folks Any recomendations for countersinks for chipborard flooring. Cheap ones blunt in no time. What do you guys use? Thanks