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Hi all im after a wireless alarm for my 3 bedroom house. it has 2 reception rooms, kitchen, 2 bathrooms and 3 bedrooms and a garage. I read the Ricochet wireless alarms are good choice, can anyone recommend what product/spec i would need for my house? has to be wireless thanks

if i needed to take down a staircase handrail and spindals, including post apart can it easily be fitted back together by a experienced carpenter using all original fittings. staircase is 20yrs old. i have a expensive sofa which i cant get into a room because it hits on the staircase...

ive installed a toilet, then later relaised it had a leak sue to a hairline crack in the cistern... could this have been caused by me tightning the wont nuts to the pan to tight?? question is when installing a toilet how tight should all the bolts and nuts be with a close coupled toilet...

i was changing a radiator valve over weekend. i removed the original olive, but couldnt fit the new olive and nut on properly. whats happened is the original olive had made a indent around the pipe, probably from being on so tight... what can i do?? i dont have enough play in the pipe to...

im going to buy a mitre saw from screwfix. they come in 110v or 240v which one should i buy. im going to be using it around the house doing general diy

thanks robbie. whats flat off with some wet and dry mean?? i didnt understand that term...

i have some internal doors in the house painted in varnish mahogany, then have been finished with clear gloss varnish. serveral years later i now need to repaint the doors. i bought a tin of Ronseal satin mahogany varnish. can i just paint straight over the gloss varnish with the satin...

no it cant be overboarded as it wont be able to take ther extra weight. even if i get most the paper off, and only have slight drips n dabs, wud this be ok??

i have one wall which is plasterboard. previously it had lining paper over the plasterboard and painted. i have removed most the paper of, but some of the lining paper is difficult to remove and has started to peel the plasterboard if i try to hard. my question is as the majority of the...

try steaming it with a wallpaper steamer, will make it melt of then u can chisel it of

gday the exisiting iron lintel is coming out, because its been built out as a arch in front of the chimney. imagine the chimney hole and then another small extension of the chimney hole in front of it made of bricks. so it sits forward in front of the chimney and not in line with it, if that...

gday a good idea, but as i want to put a plasma behind it, i want it to be solid, hence i want to brick it up. otherwise a stud wud have been good

thanks guys when installing the lintel, do i have to use any sort of engineering bricks, or can i just place it onto the existing bricks?

if the chimney runs all the way up the house, vent it on the lower ground floor and at the top level, allowing the chimney to breathe also make sure yr chimney pot is vented. give it a few months to dry out, and you should be ok... p.s make sure its not a leak somewhere on the roof or...

i need to install a lintel into a fireplace on the ground floor chimney. plan is to install a plasma onto the chimney. at the moment the fireplace is opened up and there is a arched row of bricks supported by a curved iron strip. this needs to come out as the lintel needs to be lower...

i have a chimney in the bedroom, parts of the bottom have been removed and a lintel installed at the top so its totally sealed. over the years this has caused damp as no ventilation in the chimney. i need to remove a brick from the top to allow for ventilation as its causing damp. where is...

i heard if you overtighten them to much, that overtime(years) the cable will eventually burn out and thats when u need a rewire. is this correct?

hi all i recently wired up a light pendent and some sockets in my room. when tightning the screws onto the wire, i overtightned them a bit to much i think, and it caused a indent in the wire frm the screw being overtightned. have i any reason for concern, or will it be ok, as i said all is...

if i have this issue how can i overcome it??

i have old victorian door handles fitted on interior doors. i wanted to change all my handles to newer chrome rose handles. is it just a case of changing the handles over, or will spindals, latches affect this. i wanted to keep all the original latches on