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Your disbelief is noted, and thanks for your kind advice(y) The height of the TV is no problem - I am very tall. Infra red radiation shining in my eyes would only be an issue if I wished to use the fire while watching television, which I would never do because that would be odd. I presume the...

Indeed! I don't have a huge amount of money, so I'm doing everything myself where it's safe to do so, but I draw the line at gas and electricity. I'm not particularly fussed as to whether the fire works or not. Obviously I have central heating and the fire surround is primarily there to cover...

I've just finished laying a new floor and before adding the beading I need to sort out my wiring arrangements. Have never done anything like this before so no idea whether this is a simple job or not. There's one socket fixed to the wall on one side of the chimney breast and another attached...

Thanks for the heads up on this! I picked up a couple of packs and they're exactly what I needed

I've just finished pouring some concrete into a trench in my floor so I can lay boards on top of it. In some places this has worked perfectly and the tops of the new boards are bang in line with the tops of the old ones, but in others there's a couple of mm difference. I've got some 2mm...

I'm not gonna pour concrete into the bits where they are - I've done my best to seal them off. That'll leave a gap of about a foot in the concrete, laying a board over that shouldn't be a problem. I hope.

Well here we go - hope this works!

I've got these tiles in my kitchen which I'd like to remove, but they seem to be completely invincible against the tools I have. Chisels do virtually nothing (with a decent amount of effort I managed to chip off the corner of one tile in the first picture), drill does nothing, crowbar can't get...

Yeah, I'll look into it for sure. The pipes actually seem to be in fairly good nick for the time being, once they're wiped clean, so with a bit of luck it'll be a few years before there are any problems, by which time I'll have finished the main refurbishment (still need to put in a kitchen...

Thanks for the heads up. Annoyingly, that'd involve ripping up the bathroom floor, and I'm not in a position to do that at the moment - just don't have the money - so I'll have to hope for the best :confused:

Hot water to the radiators. The ravine through the floorboards goes all the way through the hallways and back to the kitchen :(

It's around three inches deep. For the bit in the photo I might be able to get away with not using concrete because there are conveniently located joists, but there's another bit off to the side where there's nothing for the boards I'll be putting down to rest on, so filling that is going to be...

The last owner of my flat hacked great chunks out of the flooring slab to make way for pipes then did a shocking job of refilling with concrete. I've chipped away all the crumbling old concrete from around the pipes so it's now in this state: What I'd like to do now is pour concrete so that...

Part of my thinking re. using Gardz was that the walls were covered in distemper. I've got 99% of it off but figured if I Gardzd it, that'd stop whatever I put on top peeling off ten minutes later!

I'm about to start painting onto bare plaster. Have been given a big tin of Zinsser Gardz to seal the walls. Once that's gone on, do I also need to bother with a mist coat, or do I just crack on with undiluted paint?

A few of the floorboards in my flat are well past their best and need replacing, so I've taken a look around to see if I can source replacements and everything available seems to be tongue and groove, not the square edged sort I need :( Do you need to go to a specialist to get old fashioned...

I've finally finished scrubbing two rooms free of rancid old distemper and now I'm ready to paint them. Whenever I've painted a room before I've just been slapping on paint over paint, but I'd like to do this properly, so I was wondering what the best process is in terms of sealants, primers...

Ha! That's exactly the sort of thing I had in mind, but wasn't sure it actually existed - thanks for the links! I'm slightly reluctant to drill into the concrete subfloor - thought I could screw into the buried joist you can see in the picture attached. If I refilled the trench with cement...

Thanks for the suggestions all. I'm thinking what I might do is chip away the rest of the old cement, then find some way - probably by hiring a plumber - of making sure the pipes are flush against the concrete floor slab (maybe hold them there by looping something over the top of them and...

It's on the second floor. The pipes run from the boiler to the radiators. The floorboards are sat directly on top of a concrete floor slab with joists every 50cm or so, level with the concrete slab. There's no space under the boards. In the kitchen, the concrete was decayed and I've chipped...