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I would try phoning around a few other joiners workshops - my brother is in the trade has done this kind of thing quite often. Depending on how much you need you could get a cutter set ground to the correct mould or the shape can often be achieved using several cutters and more passes through...

The gap is to allow for expansion of the floor - often the skirting is removed bofore fitting the floor and the replaced over the top of the new floor. You can get beading to cover it that glues/pins to the skirting - either in floor colour or plain to enable it to be painted skirting colour. I...

I have sanded two bedroom floors and the stairs with just a belt sander - my brother is a carpenter so I get to borrow his stuff. I would have thought a cheapish sander would be OK on a small floor - you can always return it if it breaks - it is designed for sanding so it ought to be up to the...

Bearing in mind the points already made about the carpet - you may be able to do it if you get everything prepared. Push fit joints seal on the outer surface of a pipe so you should ensure the pipe is clean and paint free where you intend to cut it. Don't file it too much or you may score the...

Are all the other hot taps in the house working OK? Check the boiler pressure is high enough (mine is 1.5 bar when cold) I guess this will be OK as you say the CH is working. If the other hot taps give similar problems then chances are the priblem is in the boiler or at least in the common...

Does anyone know of an easy(ish) way to decale a combi boiler - domestic hot water - not central heating side. I assume to do it in situ would mean draining the hot water circuit and somehow backfilling with descaler/water cocktail and the flushing out. Has anyone tried this or similar. I live...

I don't know if this helps but . . . My Saunier Duval Combi has a cold pressure of 1.5 bar which obviously increases when hot. The only time I had water coming out of the safety outlet was when the internal pressure vessel had failed. Obviously this is not the only time it will vent this way but...

You could buy a big plasma screen telly and play a video/dvd of a log fire! :wink: I guess whatever you do you would need to vent the chimney in some way so some form of grill may be necessary. Or ould you open up the chimney breast to make a "fake" fireplace that would be more central but...

I can get to the rad through the wall cavity if necessary so this isn't a problem it's just the aesthetics of the whole thing. But I note on the IEE "Earthing Plastic Pipes" pdf file that they show a plastic piped bathroom layout with a link between the shower, metal light fitting and the SWITCH...

Thanks for the quick response. If earthed to the main earth at the meter end (PME) can I link the other end to the earth terminal in the fused spur rather than trying to hide an earth cable on a shiny new rad. The problem with connecting the earth to the switch is the thickness of the earth...

I have just about finished installing a similar rad. Main problems I had were finding I had wrong brackets (curved rad - all left hand) and then on completion discovering that some of the chrome was peeling off! So back to B&Q yet again. The main thing I need confirmed is the earthing...