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Hi, and thanks in advance for any help. I am about to start a garage conversion, and at the moment the plug sockets are set on the walls at about chest height. Once it's a bed room I will want them at skirting board level. The cables are currently surface mounted in trunking, but will be...

Just reading through, and has anyone considered cutting the table in half, hinging one side and some kind of lock/bolt on the other. If the hole in the middle was lined with rubber or other high friction material then it would hold, and the table top could be siply removed completely for it's...

Whilst the plumbers continue to argue with each other about incomprehensible arcane aspects of plumbing, perhaps this will help. I have recently had to employ a builder and was in a similar situation to you. He said his work was guaranteed, so I phoned the insurance company that guaranteed...

Just so an amateur can "put one over" on an expert, the combustion of gas produces steam as one of the products, so a gas cooker will always produce more steam than an electric one. Not enough to make any difference, I don't suppose, but................. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wouldn't an internal ceiling be easy enough to lower if you wanted consistent heights? OK you would have a block of empty "wasted" space above the new ceiling, but would achieve the look you were after

Got to agree with Richard above. Done loads of work on my last house, and starting again on the new. Almost everything has come from B&Q, and it's never given me any problems. My solid wood floor is B&Q. £30 m2 (got some discount) and it looks great. My last kitchen cost me under £1k and...

Fee went in a couple of days ago, and was expecting to have to pay an electrician on top of that! I am confident that I will be able to get it right for them on their visit-famous last words :lol: :lol:

Well the room in a garage at the moment, so I am in the enviable position of fitting the wall to the cubicle!!! I am close to a supplier of these cubicles, so I can go have a look at them. Just wondering whether people think they are worth the extra, or if a built in cubicle & power shower...

Cheers for that- I will look into them.

Im not necessarily going to get it from e-bay. More interested in the practicalities of fitting it and whether they are worth it compared to a normal shower.

I can't help being seduced by those huge all in one shower cubicle thingies with phones and radios and stuff that are advertised on ebay for about £1000. Has anyone had any experience of them? What are they like to fit for a non professional etc.

brilliant- that will make my life easier- thanks for the reply

Hopefully this will be a quickie!! I am about to start on a garage conversion, and will be putting an en suite bathroom in. I'm pretty certain that the electrics will end up requiring a certificate. I assumed that I would have to get a sparky in to sign off the work- something I was...

I remember why I thought about battening the other walls! :lol: They are external walls, so although the wall is double skinned and cavity insulated I thought I might add some more insulation by battening and then fitting insulation into the gaps between the battens. I didnt see that...

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I kind of figured it would be a slow painstaking job, but I can get it done through the evenings and the bigger jobs at the weekend. I also expect it to be the more expensive option, compared to a bit of dry wall adhesive, but there is 1 wall that I think...

I do agree about there being too many short bits though!!! They look OK in the end though.

I have recently done most of the rooms in our house with their flooring- the scraped oak, and because I had a concrete subfloor I couldn't nail it down. Didn't like the idea of gluing as it seems both slow & messy. In the end I went for a self adhesive underlay, which has worked really well...

Hi, First of probably quite a lot of questions since I am about to start on a garage conversion!! The garage is blockwork on the inside, and obviously needs plasterboarding. My current plan is not to dot & dab these because I think I will get a better (ie straighter) wall if I fix wooden...

OK, some feedback. Having spent a couple of days wondering what I have done wrong, and having ignored the idea that I had knocked a connection loose for a more complicated (and manly) reason, I decided to waste a few minutes checking the connections before swapping the fuses and driving to B...

I asked a similar question a while ago for exactly the same rating of shower. Someone poined me in the direction of a website that calculated what you needed. I seem to remember that 6mm2 was really really borderline. Since you are running it rough the loft I guess it will be sat on...