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Bought a new house and had New boiler installed and electrics performed by part p electrician. During the installation he noticed the house wasn't earthed to outside world and wouldn't wire up the boiler without it so i had to pay to have an isolation switch added by fuse box and some earth...

Hmmm ,hired a secret nailer from HSS What rubbish it turned out to be. It was 50 mm and not one of the nail went all the way no matter how hard i hit it and they all had to be finished off by hand. May just try electric nail gun on the other floors.

Thanks What is the thinnest a plank should be up against a wall. I'm laying parallel through one doorway and I was thinking of placing the first two boards in the doorway ,so i would start to lay in the doorway so i can ensure a decent width of board either side of the wall . Any...

Hi I'm laying oak flooring 130mm throughout the entire ground floor of my house. As it will need to go through door openings one into the hall from living room and then from hall into dinning room i am worried that at some stage i will get to a wall and the gap left will require a plank...

Thanks. I can borrow a normal nail gun, so to reduce costs i was hoping i could use it to secret nail the floor down with it. Im also laying an oak wood floor in the kitchen which is tonque and groove and engineered i asume as it has a three stripe pattern. Am i right in thinking that...

Quick one i think Can i use a standard nail gun to nail down a tongue and groove hard wood floor or do i need to hire the special one. THANK YOU

Only used to working with copper and wished to be safer than sorry so thought i would ask the question in case there was something simple that i was missing. Looking at a bit of pipe to determine its size maybe simple but what if the something simple was that the same pipe joint could have...

I honestly thank you for your concern , but what is so hard about screwing in a plug at the end of a pipe and checking to see if its leaking. If i were running new pipe then i could understand, however I'm not. Some jobs yes should be left to the professionals ,however others can be...

Dont worry you cant help , so i will take it apart and go down the local plumbers to get the stop.

But its easy enough to check to test to see if gas is getting pass the thread and jointing compound. If i didnt feel totally competant i wouldnt do it. Its a simple screwed in seal / blanking cap into a already threaded pipe i wish to do ,not plumb in a central heating system.

To screw a stop into a threaded joint. :roll: I just dont want to buy different size stops to see what fits and would prefer to keep my purchase down to 1 single item

Hi appreciate the help please I'm renovating a house i just bought and was knocking down a wall in my living room when a few brick came down on the elbow joint that supplied the gas fire. I've turn the gas off as its not need at present :) When the new gas fire goes in i will be...