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I bought some LED spot light bulbs a while back which were wrong, soon we will be moving and kitchen needs replacing so we are going to put spot lights in again, if I buy the correct size halogen lamps that will take these LED bulbs will they be interchangeable? I only ask this as I have seen...

This is what my missus wants in our new house! can anyone recommend a half decent make or supplier? L shape about 7 base units 4or5 wall, got a budget of around 10K with appliances and work tops (granite in current house) which she likes so i guess this will be on her list Thanks Brett

Tony i was just interested how long it takes to see if I would need alternative accomodation or not, i have no idea of the size of job/mess

Thanks for all the input, to be honest I think i am going to go with what we know which is mains gas, but not sure what to do with the solar water heating system thats there already. anyway whats a rough install time? 1980/90 terreced 3 bed 7-9 rads?

So gas central heating is the way to go even though I have to get mains connected? I have spoken to national grid about this so I know it can be done

I have bought a 3 bed house that currently has night storage heating, I want to remove this, but what to replace it with? The house also has solar water heating so my thoughts were should be ok with planning to have solar power to run central heating and electric or just put mains gas for...

I am looking at buying a 3 bed terrace that currantly has night storage heaters, and am looking for some advice so have a number of questions firstly the property has a solar water heating system could this be upgraded in any way to run central heating? what is a rough price to install...

thanks for that for some reason i thought oil was more expensive, and as that was the only reason i was thinking about converting Brett

I am looking at buying a house that has oil central heating, can anyone give me a rough idea as to what it would cost to convert to gas, i am thinking where the property is it wont be on the mains so will need a tank. I understand there could be verious things that could effect a price but i...

is the pipe with thermostat the in or out? it loos like there is some sort of tap thing on the other pipe would this be somthing for closing the rad?

all i can tell you is i have a worcester combi boiler upstairs

i have just noticed a small drip from kitchen radiator where the microbore pipe comes out of the bottom of the thermostat on the radiator, my question is whats the best way to reseal it? do they use an olive type seal? will i need to drain the system to do it? i have been tiling the floor and am...

I have tried some lithofin on 1, do i assume the only thing i will notice is the tiles will look the same sort of colour but the gloss sheen is now dull

Thanks for that richard, do you know if this is available to buy locally or will i need to buy it direct from them? Brett

thanks Richard, i was leaning towards sealing before laying, whats best for cleaning sealer off the old tiles? they are natural slate, the autumn multi colour so i was thinking gray grout

i thought i had seen a post about sealing tiles but cant find it again so i am sorry if its been asked before i have some 400mm square slate tiles most are second hand but there were 10 brand new ones that haven't been sealed and the old ones have some scratchs so could do with a new coat...

does anyone have any good tips for removing adhesive from slate tiles? i have bought some second hand tiles as they are a perfect match for what i already have but don't want to go charging at them and damage them thanks Brett

I have some used tiles and have a few questions 1. Best way to clean them of old adhesive and grout? 2. Do I need to re seal them? 3. There are 9 new tiles should I seal them before laying? 4. They are 400 sq. And what to do a skirting with them, how high should they be?

after dubbing a couple of movies for my kids this weekend i needed to do 1 more but for some reason i couldn't, i went through everything i need to do i them got message saying dubbing started and the counter on dvd started to tell me how long to go like it always does, then the counter just...

chris its for connecting DVD harddrive recorder to HD tv its about 1.5metres, i only have one place to locate the DVD and its tight at the back and if my 7 year old boy uses it and pushes it back the scart slightly pops out of the player, so if i can i want to do away with the scarts altogether