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Hi, we have just had our bathroom skimmed,can i tile straight onto the new plaster or should i pva or something? Cheers Ray :oops:

Drain it-flush it with the two stage stuff from local car shop-refill with correct strenght coolant. You may have done yourself a favour as you dont know how old the coolant was and your heading into winter. Ray

What is it petrol or diesel?

The house we are(when finished)moving into has a larger garden than we are used to,at the mo there is grass down the bottom and i would like a veg patch. To prepare the ground should i get some horse poo spread it out and cover with black plastic till spring or am i trying to be lazy(moi)...

17th edition to be released jan `08,just after i`ve got 16th!!!!

What to do then Industryspark? 1.5 in conudit with a rcd :?:

THe rope lights are around a cut out of santa and reindeer(ahh!) so i could remove the orig flex and replace it with something else. Ray

My mother in law wants her santa thing with a rope light around it in the garden!!! it has a 13amp plug on it, how can i do this safely? 10mm armour a bit ott? its going to be about 3-4meters from the house. can i use a new flex and put it in conduit and plug it into a socket via a rcd? if...

Depends on the load and the wattige of the cooker,whay are they

Morning, at the mo we have a old electric fire,if we wanted to change this for a wood burner(we have a chimnie) what would we have to do? Cheers ray :oops:

Thanks TicklyT, i was (cough-cough) just testing,of course i knew it was the cylinder not the boiler!!!!!. Cheers Ray :lol:

Morning, my landlady has moved into a house with no shower. What is going to be the easiest(cheapest?) to fit- either a wallmounted electric(9.5kw ish) or a surface mounted thermostatic mixer type? The surface mount would be more expensive initally-but you could run hot and cold straight from...

Thanks guys-shopping this week then. Ray

i took it to bits but could not find out what was wrong-lee of a bang more of a fizz!! i have found locally a b+d 18v cordless hammer for about £50,online i only found it fot £110-may have one of them i thinks Cheers Ray

i`m not using it as a tradesman(person??) at the mo` but what with college a big commute i`m not going to have the £200+ that i`d like to spend until next year-but i need a hammerdrill to do some work at home,i understand that i`ll be chucking after a few mths but at the mo` i have no choice...

I know you get what you pay for BUT i`m broke and i do not have a credit card to stick it on. I`m after a hammer drill are the own brand one`s worth looking at? there must be some that are built by a decent company for one of the big co`s wicks etc. i had a 650w bosch but it went bang or not...

Easy way of removal? or rub it all down? easy please,cheers Ray

I could only find them in 5-6mm, i used the 6mm and they did not grip enough,i have for the mo` cut the rawlplug and used one of these fixings in it-not ideal but is better than before. Can you get these in 10-12mm? if so where? Ta Ray

how do i prepare walls for painting,we have a 1930`s hse that we are refurbing and in one room the paint has bubbled in a few places with a white powder where the paint has cracked,should i scrape off the old paint and just replaster these areas and paint over the old paint or do i need to strip...

My friend has a 4yr old hse,the rad hangers are held onto the wall with 10-12mm rawlplugs into plasterboard!!!!! he was walking near a rad and knocked it(no booze involved) it came away from the wall. What is the best way to rehang it? i have tried the metal plugs that squash but the hole is...