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Is it possible to buy a long handled scaper e.g. 1 metre in lengths as i want to strip the landing paper, I am quite tall and can reach most of the sidewall of the stairs from the landing but I need something just a bit longer to get right to the ceiling. I dont weant to mess around with the 2...

Hi I used to have back boiler fitted and have since got a combi so no fire in the living room. I am now decorating and have removed the once mandatory ventilation grills in the flooring adjacent to each side on the chimney breasts with an intention to close them. the only problem is that under...

actually I did this on one radiator TRV in the bathroom and it took me ages of sanding down the pipe and fitting, it ws only then I realised that an imperial version of copper pipe existed before my time! I assumed there was only lead pipes that were imperial. I cannot fit a 3/8 to 10mm...

so can you still buy adaptors for this size as I want to connect new 10mm pipe to the existing microbore as the pipes wont reach the new location.?

I have just moved into a house with central heating installed over 30 years ago. I want to move a radiator but i am struggling to get the pipes to fit. It is fed by what looks like 10mm microbore but when I try to fit it to a 10mm coupling it is too tight as its more like 12mm, I also...

I was going to then I thought it would be better to brick it up pernamently as we are not moving house and dont need the door. Plus I have lots of used bricks outside that i eant to put to good use

I want to brick up an internal door way no longer required. I have removed the architrave and door casing and want to know do you also need to remove the floorboard where the bricks will be now or can you just build onto of the board?

thanks for the replies, In some places I have used the old cable to pull new cable but all the sockets are in the wrong places hece the need to feed it elsewhere

I meant through voids not conduit

I wish to replace some twin and earth in my house (all will be fully compliant with part P before anyone jumps in). I want to know what the best way to pull cable to avoid it becoming twisted and scratched. What is the best way to untwist the cable if this happens. I justy to make sure that...

hi Yeah I thought of that but you cannot buy them curved anymore, you need to have a straight one curved by a special machine apparently of which you need to supply a template of the bay (if you get it wrong then you will be suck with a useless radiator) they also cost at around £350 -£500 and...

I want to box in my curved bay window just in the middle so I can fit a smallish radiator in the centre. I just need to know what materials I need type of wood that would hold a radaitor in place etc. BTW IT is a 5 sided curved type window not the 3 sided box type

I am looking at getting the kitchen re-wired, the existing installation has the back kitchen door lightswitch on wall surround the door but as the back door is in the middle of the kitchen, the lightswitch has been placed actually inside the plaster that surrounds the door casing. I need to know...

I have another question, I have decided to earth bond under the kitchen sink as the earth clamp would be more visible. The only problem is that the floor changes from the old kitchen with a timber floo,r to a solid concrete floor half way down the galley kitchen, therefore the earth cable would...

thats what i was thinking,

Right at the other end of the house under the stairs, The water main acutally passes the consumer unit but under the floorboards before it make its way to the kitchen, does it need to be bonded here, as this is where it enters the property, otherwise I will need to buy 15m of 10mm earthing cable...

I said that I do but it is under a floorboard. I suppose it depends what people mean by "accessible" If you built a hatch around it, then I suppose it would be.

suppose i decided to add another stopcock under the kithen sink as the main tap to the house, could I bond both taps together using crimp connectors as an exstension piece and for extra protection?

I have a question about main earth bonding to the water supply. My house has no bonding to the main water supply and has had a kitchen extension 30 years ago. The orignal stop cock has been kept in the old part of the kitchen which is now the dinning room and put under the floorboards to save...

thanks so its it OK to use both doors having seperate tracks, or would I need one big one. I want the doors to be hung like double doors one each side