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Hi can anybody tell me where can I buy Oak skirting and architrave for the best price in Surrey? I don't want to buy loads in one go but probably room by room. Any advice appreciated.

Cheers guys, its a tiled floor otherwise I would have the floor up to arrange the pipes to come straight up.

Hi my wife wants me to change our bathroom rad as it is a bit old and battered looking, it is 500mm wide and the one she has got to replace it is 450mm wide with 405mm pipe centres. The pipes are coming out of the floor and have check valves on them. The bottom of the current rad is about 200mm...

Hi I have fitted the odd radiator in the past but I cannot remember this part from before so I can't think what I did about it. Basically I have bought a small towel radiator for our downstairs toilet and a couple of valves, one of which is a TRV4 thermostatic valve. They both have little...

Hi I have just ordered a fairly small cast iron radiator and in my confirmation email they warm about needing 2 men to move it at my end etc. Its 590mm high x 541mm wide which is 7 sections and 180mm deep, any idea what each section weighs so I know what I am up against please?

Hi I do a fair bit of wood work, bits and pieces round the house, and have a had a cheap Bosch 1/2 sheet sander for years but I had to do a lot of sanding recently and I did not find it the greatest to work with. My Dad came to visit and said he would bring his for me to try which is a Rupes. He...

Cheers AronSearle for that, so which is better and why would you choose it? So reading between the lines you think the B&Q stuff is fine if acclimatized and laid correctly?

We are thinking of doing our ground floor, ie kitchen, lounge, dinning room and hall in solid wood and I am assuming solid wood is the best but I am wondering about the engineered stuff as you do get a few mm on top of solid wood and it is cheaper. I can't see us wearing away through the...

Hi anybody got any ideas where I could get a 90cm wide oak worktop for an island? Ideally I want a piece 90cm wide x 168.5cm long and another small piece of 90cm wide x 59.5 long. I am after solid oak but would consider other options. Also any idea what this would cost me in solid Oak...

Cheers foxhole, and thanks for the link. So by butt joins I take it you are just putting one piece against the other but with the clamps are we talking really putting some force into the tightening or are we just trying to get them to stay in place? Any tips about how to get the edge...

Hi I am fairly good at carpentry as a hobby and my friend is insisting I help them fit their worktop which is easy enough for me except for the join. I have told him that there are different methods but I don't think I can tackle the method with a jig nor do I have a jig and I think the cheap...

Hi advice needed please, we have this guy who has a double glazing company and we think we can trust him. We have used him several times over the years and all seems good. Originally my father was friends with him many years ago. Basically what I am saying is we think there is nothing to worry...

Hi we are looking to get a new pvc composite front door in black and the only thing a little unusual we have asked for is that the inside be in black too. We have a guy who my father used to work with that we always go to for PVC stuff as he always seemed good for this stuff for us, ie...

Hi I have a Bosch 1/2 sheet sander which I have had for over 10 years and it still looks quite new, i.e. it has not had any real hard use but fairly frequent DIY use. I don't think it has got worse I think it is just that I am pushing it harder at the moment but it lets go of the sheet when I...

Hi I live in 1933 house with it's original oak door and we are about to have a new door fitted. When they fit the new door they will just take away our old door but we were wondering is the old door something we could sell, i.e. are they an item that will sell easily or do people just let them...

Hi we are thinking of changing our old battered back doors for aluminium bi-folding doors and the sun streams in through this side of the house so we are tempted to get the doors with integral blinds, we have seen them in a couple of places. It seems they are controlled by magnets, is this...

Interesting stuff and don't want to be boring but to complete my knowledge on colour of lighting, how does it work then, would you always have daylight for working and I presume warm white in lounge areas ( I assume most people would go for something other than a fluorescent in their lounge but...

cheers guys, now you mention the numbers I can see that the white is 835 but what does that mean.... even warmer white? if so why call it white?

Hi, I have a shed where I do a fair amount of carpentry, what would be the best colour fluorescent tube to get for this sort of thing, daylight white or warm white? I see some just say white, do you know what kind of white these are likely to be? Any help appreciated.

Hi I have a couple of 4ft florescent fittings in my workshop and they are the high frequency type. They are both playing up so I want to buy some new ones and it started off simple but now I am confused. I have a box of 25 4ft tubes so I wanted to stick with the same size but on looking for HF...