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I have an old style consumer box in my garage whereby you need to change the fuses when they trip, i have a friend who works for an electrical company and is a qualified electrician, he has said that he can change the box out for a new style but as is private he can't provide a certificate, does...

My mother has had her driveway re-tarmaced, she has noticed some small areas that have broken up and apparently this is down to the birds that sit up an oak tree and do their business on the drive, the tree itself is outside of her garden but the council say they will not allow it to be cut...

Can you actually change out the wings??

I backed out the screws on the light switch as i was having the wall re-plastered, now the decorating is finished i tried to put the screws back in and they don't tighten up, feels slack inside, i went and got 2 new ones and they also don't fit, even took 1 out of the other light switch and that...

I have a plasterboard wall that has been emulsioned before and has a slight dimple / rollered effect on it, the previous owner made picture frames on the wall out of dado rail which i have now took off, this has left flat areas on the wall which i have rollered over with emulsion but they still...

How many coats emulsion are allowed in 1 day, my decorator has gone after applying 2 coats on of matt emulsion on plasterboard walls, says 2 is the max in 1 day, is this correct ??

Pretty sure it was mixed, also as the tiles were just about off i pulled them off the wood and the adhesive is still wet after 3 days

Not sure what adhesive he used but no primer

I prepared the cloakroom for tiling and built a box section out of planed softwood to cover waste pipes etc, the tiler completed the tiling on Tuesday and tiled the box section as well and all looked good, today i see that the tiles on the vertical part of the box section are coming away from...

I'm in process of decorating hall stairs and landing, i am going to change the architrave and skirting boards but plan on leaving the dado rail, the issue is that the old architrave is the old bullnose type, the newer type is slightly wider and so i have to trim the dado rail back slightly, what...

The steel runners on the top basket run through 4 wheels, 2 each side, problem is they keep coming off for some reason, i have put them on twice but there doesn't seem to be anything that keeps them in place, not sure if i need new ones or not. UPDATE, there is a slight ridge on the insdie of...

I have Leylandi conifers round my garden, i want to cut them back on the end as they are encroaching on my drive, if i chop the end 2 ft off will they grow back or will they stay open

Diane, it was a 25cm square one i was thing of putting up as wanted to put a micro hi-fi on it, only weighs 5-6 kg, is your one tight to the wall??, nice and sturdy

Looking to try some of this floating shelving but the design to me looks like it doesn't pull the shelve very tight into the wall, anyone had experience with these, any good??

Thanks for that, after looking at that sheet, it is actually the kerb set type he has laid, the one laid is like the hi rise kerb set but top and bottom look the same height, that picture maybe shows cement not needed in between??

Having these Chelsea kerb blocks fitted around the edge of the patio, the guy fitting them has laid them on concrete but has put them next to each other and with no cement in between each block, is this correct or should each brick have cement in between that and the next block, the design has a...

Thanks guys, thing is where the mould is is right underneath the middle of the main tank so any overflow would be below the perimeter, not sure where it is from, it is obviously under the wood that the tank sits on and i wondered if it was a lack of air circulation, there is no loft insulation...

Going to decorate my daughters room and i see a patch on her artexed ceiling which looks like a water stain. i looked in the loft directly above and i find that there is a type of mould on the otherside of the plasterboard. Sitting directly above on the joists is the water tank, there...

I'm not at home at the moment as i work away but i would say 3.5 to 4" and square all the way up and a flat cap top on it, just wanted to spruce it up a bit.

Looking to replace some parts on my staircase, primarily the newel post and spindles. My existing newel post is in bad condition at the top, what i am looking to do is keep the base of the post but just renew half the post as i appreciate removing all ot if becomes quite intrusive to the rest of...