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My son has bought a cottage and is in the planning mode. Could anyone sugest the average cost a square yard, or meter if you insist, of the two options?

I served an apprenticeship as a Bricklayer in 1950 and moved on from that when I finished my time never to darken the door of another building site so I know little of modern building techniques. I live in a bungalow that I refurbished over fifteen years ago and having used insulation on the...

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When a pipe freezes is it best to leave it and wait to see if it thaws or is it allright to turn a fan heater on it?

I have just stripped back a 30 year old floor and the boards look good. Should I use polyureathane or varnish?

I was a bricklayer many years ago but left the trade and it's a very long time since I built a fireplace so I'm looking for some advice. The fireplace opening has been stripped out leaving a large box like opening. I want to run a screen of bricks round both sides and the back and then place a...

I'm getting there but one thing I note is that many of the energy bulbs are srew fitting while all of my bulb fittings are bayonet. Why is this?

I would buy a bayonet fitting socket if that’s what one calls the socket that hangs down from the ceiling. Connect it to the same sort of cable that the current socket hangs from. Unscrew the cover from the pendant holder and splice the additional wire to that so that the two sockets are...

I would like to use these new energy saving bulbs but when I tried one equivalent to 100Watts in my study it was not bright enough so I wnet looking for an adaptor that would allow me to have two bulbs running from the one bulb holder. I suppose that in these days of Aunty knows best I would...

I am past 70 years of age and I have a large loft area which my wife refuses to access because it make her claustrophobic so if I become unable to access the loft we will be unable to access any of the items up there. We are also running out of storage space downstairs and I am find it...

I currently have a normal loft ladder but I would like a better quality one possibly in wood with wider and deeper treads and I can find no measurements in the advertisments that I have looked at. Can anyone advise me where I could get such a loft ladder?

I have managed to speak to the manufacturer who said that if the pump is placed away from the cylinder it could affect the seals so I have decided that it should be placed on the same level as the cylinder next to it. I don't want to take up the floor of the bedroom that the airing cupboard is...

The bath room is next to the room where the cylinder is which is a pipe run of about ten feet.

I have purchased a twin impeller shower pumps, marked, "SF Turbo 2 565-1009-00SF". On the box there are instructions that state, "Twin Booster pumps are usually installed in the airing cupboard with separated gravity fed hot and cold water supplies running to the mixed valve position. If I...

The concrete floor is four years old so it has a membrane and insulation under it. I would like to lay an Ash floor if it is not to expensive and if it is then I will use Deal. I know that the wood would probably shrink so I propose to cut the floor to size and lay it loose for three months or...