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Red wine will "bleed" into Pine grain and stain the wood quite deeply. Your only option may be to sand it back and then apply wax/varnish as appropriate. A call to a good furniture restorer may provide other, less drastic, alternatives.

breezer is right. You have copper oxide residue. There must be damp in the wall somewhere close to the box. It's not a great problem in its self but could lead to the earth wire breaking and then you'd have no earth! If there is enough "slack" cable you could disconnect the mains fuse and...

It could be any of the above or movement in the wall in question. Did you mix as specified? Was the new render to replace previously cracked - in a similar place - render? 3/4 seems a little heavy to me...perhaps two skim layers would have been better? Not that helps you now! Sorry.

I always use a junction rose secured to a beam but I can't remember what the 16th Ed. has to say on it. I'm sure one of the others who is more up to date will tell you.

Try turpentine but you MUST wash it afterwards with neat detergent!

I thought it was B&Q but he said he'd tried. As it happens I have to go today to return some sanding belts...I'll have a look and see if they have them.

You mean these? www.cangun.com I know I've seen them somewhere in the UK. Screwfix, Homebase, B&Q Warehouse, Thomas4tools.co.uk Etc. but can't remember where!! If I do I post again. Good luck hunting them down!

I doubt very much that the varnish will take over the oil-stained patches. You could do a small trial patch to see. One option is to buy some proprietary oil remover, Halfords should have some, and try to “clean” the oil stains as best you can and then do a test patch of varnish. The...

See: http://www.diynot.com/pages/fs/fs016.php If it's bad though I'd be tempted to sand back, seal, and re-varnish for a pristine finish that will last years.

You could try phoning somewhere like Jewson’s and asking if they hire out empty sand delivery bags – the cloth type that they use for large deliveries of sand/soil Etc. I think they take a ton in weight. Obviously you wouldn’t fill them with that much but if you had say four of them, you could...

One way or the other you’ll need to have them in; If you come to sell the property the buyer’s solicitor will want to see the certificate. If you contact your local planning office and explain what’s happened they can come out and inspect the work and issue a retrospective certificate. You...

Although difficult to accurately diagnose over the NET it sounds like the programmer is “skipping” the wash cycle. This is most likely if your model has an electro-mechanical programmer; whilst an electronic version can exhibit the same fault it’s less likely that this would be the only fault...

It could be one of a few problems causing this. Does the machine simply stop between the fill and empty cycles?

http://www.geappliances.com/geac/own_instl/ there you go...just type in the model number of your wall oven and it should take you to the manual.

As this is a UK website, and I'm in the UK, I can't say I know the model you are asking about...but... it sounds like the programmer/PCB/control chip (whichever it has) is faulty. The “Err” will simply mean “error” and the “8” will be that error’s code. If you have the original handbook...

The fuse box should have an earth block – usually brass and with half a dozen or so insert points for the earth wires – from one side there should be the main grounding (earth) conductor from outside the house (you shouldn’t need to touch this at all), and from the other there should be a...

It might be easier to figure which companies aren't part of the same group these days. I've long since thought that they all **** in the same pot.

I know. It's just me being a cheapskate as usual :)

Point taken. It's safer all round to assume a fitter is always the best option.

It's called TIKATAK Multi Purpose Adhesive...and I can't tell you how damned sticky this stuff is! It's a contact adhesive and once contact is made it's made. I've used it for timber, panels and vinyl...and an errant ceramic tile when I had no tile adhesive left...and it's very good. No lift...