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Why what's called on "The Mainland" then?? :shock:

I've always known the brace wall to be the wall that the chimney brace is located on, ie. the wall with the fireplace and the chimney.

I have a brace wall in my living room which I want to paper with a red paper and the window wall at a right angle to the brace wall which I want to paper with a white/cream paper. The question is what's the best way to hang the paper on these 2 walls so that the joint is nice and tight with...

That's what I originally thought John. I just wondered if there was an easier way that wouldn't involve lifting the floor in the bedroom upstairs as it's a pig of a job as a lot of stuff will have to be moved out of the room. :x

I have a 53cm cantebury plaster ceiling rose which I will fix to the ceiling using coving adhesive. On top of the ceiling rose I want to mount a pretty flush and light light fixture with 3 stems for lights coming from the centre of the light. Is it standard practise to mount the light...

I have a 53cm cantebury plaster ceiling rose which I will fix to the ceiling using coving adhesive. On top of the ceiling rose I want to mount a pretty flush and light light fixture with 3 stems for lights coming from the centre of the light. Is it standard practise to mount the light...

I've seen small wood effect slips for hiding the expansion gap around a fireplace hearth. It is shaped like coving and I was wondering what is the best way to secure it to the floor or hearth. I don't think that securing it the floor would be a good idea as the floor could possibly expand in...

Why would running 2 lengths of 24 gauge speaker cable in an expansion gap ruin the floor :?: The skirting board hasn't even gone on yet so now is the ideal time to run the cables. The cable from the speaker is 24 gauge cable. I was going to use a flat blade crimp terminal for jointing purposes.

I want to run speaker cable in the expansion gap between the laminate floor and the walls. Where the ends will be visible where the speakers connect in what is the best type of connector to use?

Cheers mate. Now to see if anyone I know can loan me one :D

I'm installinga new fireplace and the new hearth will be bigger than the original hearth. This means I will have to cut a section of the wooden floor so that the base of the hearth can sit on the concrete base of the original floor. Short of lifting the floor and possibly damaging boards...

Cladding was top of my list for the builders merchant tomorrow as I know the havoc it can play with copper piping as you say.

Thanks for your replay Ken. I was going to pack the back and sides of the back boiler with vermiculite and brick up the gap to the vermiculite with old brick and cement and maybe a bit of bonding. Does that sound right?

It's a wrap around back boiler for buring wood and coal in an open fronted fire. In order to get at the pipes assuming it was backed up with on the back and sides with vermiculite the only way would be break the vermiculite away. Correct me if I'm wrong but if there was a problem with the back...

What's the best material for use building in around back boilers? Vermiculite is suitable isn't it? I'll need to brick up a bit as well. Is there anything wrong with ordinary brick and mortar butting up against the side of the boiler?

If you're talking about plasterboard sheets I still meant 2 foot x 4 foot sheets.

What kind of angle bead would be suitable for an interior plasterboard wall?

The batons on the wall are running across the wall. The plasterboard will be running with the long side down the wall. So what you said will be the way the sheets will end up on the wall.

I've removed an old wood panelled wall in our living room and left the batons on the wall that the wood panellingwas fixed to. I will be platerboarding the wall with 2 foot x 4 foot sheets of plasterboard and will be attaching the sheets to the wall vertically instead of horizontally. My...

My father is a time served brickie and plasterer leaving the trade in the late 70's. I get him to do a bot of work for me from time to time. I want him to plaster a platerboard wall over stud. He tells me to get scrim cloth to put over the joints between the sheets of plasterboard. Do they...