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My mother lives in social housing. She is elderly and disabled and as such the bungalow has been adapted for her use. The kitchen doorway has been widen to accommodate her wheelchair and a set of bi folding doors have been fitted against her will. The doors are the cheap kind, corrugated...

Urh. I guess I'll have to fit an ugly surface mounted box then.

Is it strictly necessary to fit a pattress box behind the light switch? I ask this because I've discovered a piece of studwork intersecting to stop behind the switch...

Right. Thanks. Seems simple enough.

Ok... i assume that it would be marked in some way to identify it? I don't have an electrical tester to check which wire is live.

hello, In my hallway I have on light fitting but 3 seperate single gang switches at various points for it. I also have a switch that turns on the light in the loft. I want to add a lamp holder and switch in a cupboard in the hall. The loft switch is right next to where I want to install my...

Seems like the whole thing could twist off if knocked from below. I also worry about the strength of the brackets. How much weight can they take.

Yeah, they are up on the walls.

If i use stripwood I'll have a 6mm border around the units. If I use filler and paint it'll be flush...

The ply is 18mm

Frog tape. Might be worth a try.

I'm thinking of buying these hangers for my kitchen units: Has anyone used these before? I find the video a little confusing due to the lack of audio description. What kindof weight can these take? It seems strange to me that the bottom of the units have no fixing points. Could the units be...

Thanks, ive don't think I can get anything uver the skirting. These is zero gapsince the floor had self leveling compound applied to it a few years back.

I'm putting some cupboards up and fixing them to playwood backboards. I want to paint the plywood edging the same colour as the walls but I've been told that those edges are extremely porous. I've thought about this and have some No Nonesense wood filler from screwfix and some Gorilla wood glue...

For the whole run? Sockets/switch/light?

Well, I'd like to take this opportunity to make a formal apology here to anyone that has been negatively effected by my misuse of the English language. It certainly wasn't my intention to cause offence.

Well my family didn't correct me either. Perhaps they thought I was saying bought instead of brought.

I've just discovered that the plug sucket is supplied by a 1.5 cable fed from what used to be an immersion heater switch point. (It's not the economy 7 spur, but rather the all day standard electricity circuit. I think it might be best to replace that wiring with 2.5 from the spur to the plug...

At least there and their sound the same. I've been going around saying "brought" in my every day speech.

The skirting boards and door frames in my house were painted 13 years ago with Dulux one coat gloss. They yellowed after a few years. Now I need to repaint then again. I have hardwood floors and obviously don't want to get any paint on them. Inevitably I expect I will, and I imagine a water...