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Following the removal of some Grippit fixings from some dot & dab plasterboard (party wall) in a 14 year old house, I need to fill some of the result 20mm diameter holes. Is there anything in particular I need to consider when doing so, such as maintaining separation from the masonry behind or...

What is the black piece of ironmongery in this photograph called? I need to source another and the internet isn't helping me! Thanks in anticipation

https://amzn.eu/d/jlvTEdq is the kind of thing that looks close to what I want. They look best suited to a table router where you can hold the template in place by hard on top of the piece. I’d need it to be secured somehow on the underside to use a flush trim cutter…

Apologies, it would be to round off the corners of an otherwise rectangular piece of 12mm MDF. I suspect a radius of 20 - 40mm will be suitable.

I’d like to accurately radius the corner of a piece of MDF. I have a Bosch POF 1200 AE plunge router and various edging / trimming cutters. I’ve only used it once before to do some flush trimming which was very successful. I assume I need a template and that I should fix this template to the...

I did think of that but this design is so substantial, I can't imagine they'll ever move that much...

I need to securely fix a substantial shelf to a wall and it's important that the shelf is horizontal. I purchased some sturdy brackets from a local hardware shop, I suspect they were the same that Screwfix sell at...

I'm looking at this shower enclosure and trying to work out if the door opening is too small? This is for my old flat that I intend to use for AirBnB etc. https://victoriaplum.com/product/orchard-6mm-pivot-hinged-rectangular-shower-enclosure-with-stone-tray-800-x-760?options=size|700_x_900 It's...

When drilling through dot and dab into the external or party walls, I find the drill can drift quite dramatically once it hits the masonry meaning the resultant hole is in the wrong place. How can I avoid this happening? I have a battery or mains hammer drill available to me and I'll get a new...

Yes, I probably did but am not familiar with the terminology! I'd like the door to lock behind me whenever I close it upon leaving the house so that I need a key to open it from the outisde with the option of a deadlock as we have now.

Our front door currently has just a deadlock with bolts that have to be set before locking, by lifting the door handle. Is it possible to add a latch function while retaining the deadlock function? We'd like the reassurance of the latch for in the daytime where we sometimes forget to set the...

Sorry for the delayed response... It's not perfect, they are fairly heavily loaded and sometimes the baskets come off the rails. The baskets clear the doors without issue.

In case it helps someone else, I've just successfully fitted some 60cm IKEA Utrusta wire basket drawers (IKEA article #002.046.72 ) in an old discontinued IKEA Faktum kitchen cabinet that's been customised in the past for use as part of a fitted bedroom. I found that using the shims (the plastic...

We have solar PV panels (1.5kw) and I'm curious about fitting an immersion diverter to use any spare solar energy for heating water rather than sending it back to the grid. Before we do that, I'd like to have an idea if we have sufficient spare solar power for this purpose, if not then it's...

We’ve got some nice ceramic kitchen sinks and we’re nervous about cracking them by fixing on the mixer taps. The taps have black plastic seals underneath them (see pic) which would be in contact with the top of the sinks when attached. We wonder whether we need additional washers such as...