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i am putting wood floor in bathroom and new plasterboard and skimming, can i run the plasterboard over flooring and skim down to it and have no skirting board cheers jon

ive bought some 22mm jotoba off ebay and want to fit it in my bathroom. i will lay tiles round bath. i can either screw down existing floor boards and lay over this, or rip up and lay jotoba onto joists. question which would you recommend if former existing floor boards a little domed but i...

richard back wall is vertical brick on which i will build a partition (cant get depth of valve in wall on own) which will have 2 layers of 12mm plasterboard. the side walls which have the angle of the gable roof in are rafters with 300 mm between on which i will place 1 layer 12mm plasterboard...

am redoing my bathroom that is in the roof space so the walls are angled up to a point at the roof. i intend to tank (bal?) around shower and then tile. my question is as some of the tiles will be hung at 45 degrees or so what advice to get tiles on and keep them up. size, thickness tiles...

the spring is sticking out of dispenser. ive been told to just put tablet in with cutlery. seems some end up clean other stained. someone said throw tablet in just before wash cycle. should i buy new dispenser seems to be about 45 quid, or is non clleaning not related? cheers jon

ok so any suggestions, cant glue nail or screw ( licheer supplier suggests screwing tongue tite) is adding extra ply only option? i dont have much height to play with, the room is a hall 1.3m wide with an alcove of 2.3m by 8m, could i float this as so narrow??

sould i screw it then,

should i then stick it direct to chipboard, i take it its a no no sticking it to existing laminate? if ok any paticular glue cheers jon

any advice?

i bought some licheer 189 21 mm engineered oak from ebay to do my hall, girl friend likes it so now wants me to do lounge aswell. firstly does anyone know were i can buy some more. i was going to float it on 3mm underlay over chipboard in hall, the lounge has laminate over fibre board i wondered...

ive got fairly uneven boards and need to put something down before carpeting. needs to be as low as possible as in roof and very low ceilings. tried to put 3.6mm ply screwed and some grip but seems to have "bubbles" that creak or tap. any ideas? more screws, try and get it up and someting else...

cheers should have stopped with few black marks, back to the sander

ive sanded boards and looked pretty good an almost pink pine, i then tried to get black marks out with oxalic acid and washing off, when this dried i had pink staining, tried borax which seemed to take out some but stain brownish colour, before i completely ruin it or spend days re sanding the...

ive sanded boards and looked pretty good an almost pink pine, i then tried to get black marks out with oxalic acid and washing off, when this dried i had pink staining, tried borax which seemed to take out some but stain brownish colour, before i completely ruin it or spend days re sanding the...

want to replace my kitchen doors seems to be numerous companies can supply, is there anything i should look for or particular companies that ok, all i want is a very plain white hard wearing door.

i have glued laminate in my lounge. i am going to replace with carpet, as i am on top floor flat could i leave laminate down and carpet over and o diminish the noise pproblem for my neighbours. cheers jon

i need to raise my hall floor some 4 inches. currently standard floor boards. have purchased some eng oak, 20mm inc 6mm oak top and want to lay it on raised floor. my question is should i put in 3-4 inch framing straight ontop of existing floor and nail enginneered straight on top, is it...

my flat is over a neighbour who complains about the noise from my hall which is just the floorboards. ive now got to raise my hall floor by about 4 inches. i intend to build a second floor over the existing floor boards. if i fix some 4*2 down and nailed an oak floor on top would this greatly...

i live in top floor flat with 1 other flat using the same entrance. we have yale and mortice lock. i would like to fit an audio door release system for mme and my neighbour . any advice on what system, can i installl myself do we need to take out standard yale and juust use mortiice? the run for...

ive got an old internal brick wall that rather than plastering she wants to make a featue of, how do i clean mortar stains and what is the best think to seal the brick work afterwards cheers jon