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Thanks Tigercubrider. That's what I thought initially. Essentially the shelf would be resting on the screwhead. It just doesn't feel like the most secure way. Maybe it is though.

Thanks John, much appreciated. Here are photos of the front and the back of the shelf. The pencil and drilling parts are no problem, but I'm failing to grasp how the shelf attaches to the wall!

Hi I have some shelves to put up, that haven't come with any fittings/screws etc or fitting instructions. Here is a picture of one end. The other end has the same thing. How would I put this up? The wall is in the bedroom and it's an exterior wall - brick. I have a variety of screws and...

Hi I am revisiting this, wondering whether I can do a bit of work over the Xmas hols. I attach some photos. These are three bits of the wall where either the paint fell off or I scraped it off. The sand underneath is actually not all that crumbly, actually quite hard to take off. Most of the...

It's a little dim, but the thumbnail below is of our side wall looking inside the garage from pavement. The white rendered bit, and the bit below is our side wall. It looks in a bad way but the garage owner has cleaned it up a bit since the photo. I think what he plans to do now, having spoken...

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Hi - thank you. It's not a cavity wall and it's not exposed (so this wall is his garage back wall, internal, and our house side wall, external).

Thanks! I think it could be a party wall as the garage has been there a very long time, over 40 years. I think the damp may have been something to do with the neighbour as the garage roof was in poor condition (no flashing, no gutterm possible gaps) and there were materials/metals resting...

Hello The side of our house is a brick wall. It is also the back wall of the neighbour's garage. We quite recently moved in, there may have been some party wall agreement in place but nobody can find it. The wall, visually at least, isn't in great condition. The neighbour now wants to put...

Hello I'd like to paint some internal wooden doors to restore the whiteness of the current paintwork. The doors each have some cracks in them like in the pictures attached. What would the best approach be? I have decorators caulk and a polyfilla equivalent but can also fairly easily get to...

Thank you! I'll check those out.

Hello We have a small exterior wall with peeling paint. Some bits of paint have fallen off themselves, the rest I reckon can fairly easily be scraped off. I would like to repaint the wall and not sure of the best way to do this. I can see that under the paint is a layer of sand (render?) and...

Hello I've been researching sheds recently and shed bases. I have a question firstly about what's best for a base - a wooden frame kit or a plastic base kit (I've narrowed it down to these two). Both seem like sound options for our garden. I *think* I favour the plastic base filled with fine...

It's Combi. Thanks, will ask around/some questions...

Hi My parents are trying to decide between a 34kw boiler and a 29kw boiler, same brand (Worcester Bosch). Apart from any purchase cost difference, are there any downsides of the more powerful one? Would it *always* cost more to run? After a little research, i feel a 29kw would be ok for...

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Yes. My thinking at the time was to get the LEDs in to start making savings, the dimmer can be replaced another time as that is more of a hassle. Is it easy/safe for a non-expert to replace a dimmer? Or should it be left to a pro?

Thanks for the replies. I'll clarify what I have as I actually made a mistake and my post could do with a bit more detail. I have 6 lights up on the ceiling, 5 of them are LEDs at 5 or 6 watts each, and one is a halogen at about 35 watts. I installed the one halogen to exceed the dimmer's...

Hello I have 6 LED lights in our living room, with a total wattage greater than that of the minimum required as stated on the dimmer. They’ve been working fine for 6 months or so, but over the past few weeks, when dimmed, they momentarily dim themselves at seemingly random times. So I tend...