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Hi I would like to fit a double door set of doors to one room with a handle on each door to keep them looking symmetrical, is there a correct way to do this and get both handles work or would one just be for show?

Hi we are joining 2 room together and felt we wanted to close the existing door opening and open up a new double door opening. The size of the double doors we have picked is 54" or 1372mm but how much do I allow for the frame etc, what is the normal cut out you would do to end up with being...

Hi we are having our front and back rooms joined to form one big lounge and this means we are removing a supporting wall and must fit a steel beam for support. The beam my structural engineer has stipulated is 254x254x73 UC and the length if all goes as planned should be 3620mm. We went to...

Cheers Woody and Ronny, from what you say you are sort of confirming my doubts about the internet method so I think I will have a real person in. 1. To answer your questions the span of the smaller room is 3.4m and the larger room is about 1/2 meter bigger. 2. Where one rooms is bigger...

Hi I want to remove what I think is a structural wall to make 2 rooms into 1. I live in a 1933 mock Tudor semi detached house with cavity walls and a suspended timber floor. This floor is about 1 foot above the dirt or concrete, can’t really be sure as it is so dirty under the floor. I know...

Thanks guys, so can I assume you guys think 25mm thick is about right for this purpose?

Hi I have a steel beam with rough timber each side and I would like to clad it in Oak to match other Oak bits I have done in our house, which is basically smooth light American/European Oak with a chamfered/routed edge. The beam is approx. 3.4m long and the existing beam size to cover is...

I'm trying to avoid the cost of the Structural Engineer for this job as my builder told me this work is fairly minor, as this is only a beam to stop any flexing in the joists, and not a major support. I have removed 2 x 6"x2" and will in effect put them back but 8"or so longer (so 2 new ones)...

Hi please could somebody guide me through the next part of a job I’m doing in my house. I got some advice from a builder friend but his company have sent him to a job in a different area for a month or 2 and I want to get on. Basically I live in a cavity wall 1930’s semi house in which I have...

Hi I have been using Osmo oil for the first time and see they recommend using their dedicated brush cleaner and I was wondering will anything else do to clean the brushes such as white spirit? Any info appreciated.

Hi I have bought some Engineered oak flooring and the guy in the shop sold me some silver sided foam stuff to go underneath. I explained to him it was for out bedroom on the 1st floor of our house and it was a joist and floorboards floor. At the moment there is carpet and underlay which I...

Thanks for all the input everybody. I like the look of these, how are these fixed to the wall, I can't see a way from looking at the picture, it just looks like the circular piece would rest against the wall not stopping the rad from coming forwards?

but how do you get the length right, it seems very awkward that you have to try to measure the cutting point with it inside the confined space and obviously it must be precise to get the dome nut to tighten against the other nut unless I am not understanding how it works?

Hi I've bought a fancy cast iron radiator and it has come with a wall bracket but although I have Googled it I can't seem to find any clear instructions as to what the fitting procedure is for the bracket, so can anybody walk me through it step by step. I didn't get it from here but this is...

Ok I have been googling and I am even more confused now. I was thinking to buy the Oak so I could cut the linings and jams out of one piece of wood as it seemed a bit cheaper and easier that way to get the right sizes to mimic what was there before but this actually works out to about £130 just...

No it is not a trick question, I am thinking that Oak is stronger than pine and so maybe you can use thinner than 30mm and also pine being cheap, and the fact that these frames date from the 1930's when the house was built that they maybe they just put them in at that size as that is what they...

Hi I am hoping to change my internal pine door linings and doors to Oak, I have removed the first one and the existing lining is nearly 30mm thick, what size should they be if in Oak please? Oak seems very expensive so i don't want to buy thicker than necessary but at the same time I don't...