Recent content by Bill_Stickers

Thats great, thanks a lot - although which would you recommend to seal and preserve the original colour? I can't see the job being done again in my lifetime, and we want to preserve the original white oak colour as much as possible. Bill

Hi all, I hope you can help: about 10 years ago I resanded my wood floor. Apparently it's American white oak, and it's laid in strips about 60mm wide and about 5-8mm thick. Straight after sanding it looked great. I then gave it 3 coats of what the hire shop told me was clear sealant (oil based I...

Building control would be worried about your emissions as well. You will need a fire door and ensure there can be no escape of exhaust fumes.

Same problem in my kitchen. We laid a base level of concrete, putting while wet 3 inch joists to rest on it hanging off wall plates with Wickes joist hangers, when dry , polestyrene sheets and then flooring grade chip. This was 3 years ago - I wish the whole house was like it!

Put the plug in, take the tap head off, unscrew the tap body, drop it, (thank me that you put the plug in), then take the circlip off, unscrew and push out the internal assembly - it will I assure you - then clean all brass with wire wool, lubricate with vaseline or similar and reassemble if it...

Thanks a lot Andrew, so 6mm ok ,45 amp necessary and possibly new cu for shower. The cu won't take an rcd so I'll check out a whole house on line. Thanks again.

Wow that was quick, there's no rcd i'm afraid and I was wrong it's not an mcb it's a cartrige fuse. Many thanks.

I've got a broken 9.5kw gainsborough shower that needs replacing. I was going to replace like with like which I think I can do without notification (part p). However it runs on 6mm cable surface mounted in trunking with a 30amp mcb in a Wylex box. The cable runs for a max of 4 metres. Apparently...