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Hi, I'm hoping someone can help. We have a sixth sense whirlpool washing maching (model AWOE8759B) and it is only about 14 months old. It recently flashed uo a F13 error and my partner turned it off. on looking in the manual it says we should hold the reset button for 13 seconds. The...

Hi I was hoping for some advice. A friend is pregnant and their small back garden needs an overhaul so I have volunteered to do it for them. They have had two out houses knocked down and they want a seating area about 5 metre square where they were. The two out houses floors are next to each...

hi, hoping for some advice :D We have just had our house renovated and rewired. In the process the electrician ran coax leads to all rooms from the cellar. They are not terminated in the cellar but just hanging loose. He said we could get an ariel person in to put an ariel on the roof and...

cheers will do :D i tried hinged, step etc but never though of rebated! Ta

Hi hoping someone can help. I have a pair of old porch doors that open in the middle. The lock on it is like a mortice lock but it has a step in it (I'm not sure how to describe it!) where the doors join and overlap in the middle. ______ _I I I______I This is if you were to...

I don't think they are going to move loads! But with grout don't you aways get a hairline crack where it meets the worktop? Not too fussed about a hairline crack to be honest

Hi we have some new wooden worktops and mosaic tiles with white grout. I've left the gap between the worktops and 1st row of tiles as I wasn't sure what to use. i didn't want to get grout all over the worktops adn I guess grout may crack as the worktop swells/shrinks. But then again...

Hi we have a condensing bioler and water cylinder in a cupboard. We have put a new MDF door on. Does this require vent cutting in it 9there is about 10mm gap at bottom of the door). Thks

Hi we have chipboard floor in our kitchen and ply in out bathroom. We are putting vinly on top. botht he ply and chipboad are screwed down adn quite a few of the screw heads are countersunk beneath the surface. Do these need filling to stop the holes showing in the vinyl? If so what is best...

Thanks for the advice. We will water down the paint and see if this makes it spread better. When watering down if you use different amounts of water, say on one lot you water it down by 15% and the next lot you water down a bit out, say 12% - will this end up being visible on the final finish?

Hi, We've had our whole house boarded and skimmed. We've done the mist coat with Johnsons contract matt 15% watered down. After doing this alot of imperfections showed up: 1. We are polyfillering blemishes with the stuff you mix yourself. However when we come to emulsion over it (using...

So the bloke was talking cobblers? So I'm ok to put the 6mm ply down everywhere. I'll sand the ridges and caulk the gaps. Is there anything else needs doing like where the screw heads are (i would reckon the underlay should cover any small protrusions.) Cheers John

Hi, I've purchased 45 sheets of 8 by 4 6mm WBP ply to overlay all the floorbaords in my house as the boards are in bad nick. I've done most of the house, screwing the ply at 30cm centres (probably hire a stapler to make the centres less). On the receipt I have just noticed it says the...

Hi, We have a couple of rooms that used to have a fireplace. These have been removed and the tiled hearth lifted sometime in the past. The upshot is that there is a small sunken area where the tiles used to be laid. We are going to use leveling compound to bring the sunken area level...

gcol, thanks for the advice but it must have gone in one ear and out the other. I was priming the bathroom today with some BAL primer and thought I remembered that the advice was to prime the ply that was to be tiled around the bath. I gave it a couple of coats this morning ready to tile...

thanks for the advice

I'm about to start tiling our bathroom and hope someone can help with the following . We've boxed in our bath (not going to be used as a shower bath), using a 50mm timber frame with sheets of 12mm WBP ply on top. Before tiling should we prime the ply? We are using BAL grip (improved...

cheers - i'll look at packing it out with some ply

Hi, we've just had an ensuite built and have a snag before tiling The shower area is 800*800mm and is built using aquapanel. I bought the shower tray with 4 upstands. On two of the sides the upstand is flush with the aquapanal. On one side it is flush except for about 200mm where at...

cheers. With the concrete alterantive do they ever after get access to the flue from inside the property (i.e. drill though the chimney breast) in case of any problems. Also is this a cheaper alternative then steel liners? thanks in advance