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workhard - I had this tackle installed 15 months ago and I continue to be impressed with its performance. Yep, as per therms advice I got a WAI firm in to do the install and as there were some complex pluming issues to resolve they knew what to do; I wouldn't be convinced that those without...

Spot on with that lady but the OP was only asking for 'trapdoor' solutions :)

John - your local welding workshop (Yellow Pages) will be able to fix this thing for you. Any welder worth his salt will be able to 'braze' this thing for you. Options will be: brazing, phosphor bronze welding, or silver-soldering depending on its construction; I'd suggest doing this on the...

J - pop into your local motor factor (car spares shop) and ask for a tube of liquid gasket (Loctite do one, as do others). This stuff is thinly applied on mating surfaces to achieve gas/liquid seal when the two parts are bolted together. It's a good solution for re-builds, often on obsolete...

Jason - another tip when doing ceilings ... wear a drill holster (obviously to hold your drill when humping the p/boards) and a pouch (for the drywall screws) hanging from a belt around your waist. Just makes life a whole lot easier and avoids the grief of not having a 3rd hand to hold the...

Jason - get a pair of Boardmate drywall board support tools ... £8 each. They're special brackets (small) that clip with a single screw to the ceiling joists, the plasteboard is then angled up to hook into the brackets (this is a VERY easy one man job 'cos all you are doing is tilting the...

S - consider a tambour door.

Redundant plugs should be 'punched' just below the plaster surface (1mm maybe) the SHALLOW depression then filled. Trying to pull out a redundant plug (whatever method is used) is asking for the surrounding plaster to pull away .... resulting in a bigger repair job. The punch should be the...

flip - these frames will be nailed (at an angle) to the floorboards ... you won't see the nail heads as they're set, filled and overpainted (100 years of paint). Remove as much floorboard as close to the doorframes as possible by sawing so you're only left with small/short sections. Then take...

Sure, the electrics might be a danger to the 8 staff but consider the hundreds of punters scoffing grub from a place like that ... a food outlet with an open tray of what looks like rat poison on table just below scorched CU.

El - you don't say if you are 'overboarding' the new stuff over the existing but judging from your post I'd guess that's what you're proposing. If so, then undercutting as others have posted is what to do ... however, you realise that by overboarding the new floor you'll create 'steps'...

Ben - nothing wrong with your tool buying philosophy. One-off jobs and occasional use generally allows for getting cheepo tackle; trade use, however, means using premium brands. Most folks posting on this forum are operating on really tight bugets and need to get the job done for minimum...

WVJ - the DeWalt is very good indeed. Back in the day I've used paraffin blowlamps, propane ones but thought I'd get a hot air jobby a couple of years ago. Got my DeWalt in Makro and was amazed how good it is; but the real secret to burning-off paint is to make sure you use decent scrapers...

Mark - it looks pretty shoddy to me. A decent pro wouldn't clagg-on all that filler to the corners ... they would have been accurately cut and not needed filler. If in this day and age he insists on using oval nails to fix the trimming (that bull-nose architrave) then he should have 'set'...

bicycle - Fix tanalised battens (2”x1” or thicker {if you can fit it – levels permitting} treated timber) on a bed of Synthaprufe (this stuff not only acts as a dpc but also as an adhesive for the bats) then fix the bats with 97mm long cartridge nails shot from a Hilty cartridge nailing gun...

Peely - it's a pipe cutter. Those 'central jaws' are infact the cutting heads. Look carefully at these heads and you'll notice that there's a cutting tip at one side of central slot, the other side is ground to form a clearance (essential for an effective cutting action). Borden's...

Thanks plugwash for your prompt reply. Running a new extra cable directly from the dish's LNB to the new sitting room is an elegant solution and the one I'll use. I checked the LNB through my binoculars today and there are a couple of unused outputs which I can use. I've got a set of...

I’ve been reading another current post on “coax cable for sky?” and I need some advice about joining satelite cable runs. My current situation is: Dish high up chimney stack. ‘Shotgun’ cable drops down chimney stack and enters building at high-level through the gable wall into the attic...

joe - what about these welding nozzle cleaning files ... they look the same as the tackle you're after: http://www.thewelderswarehouse.com/Welding/Nozzle_Cleaner_Set.html you can get them at any welding supply place.

Pull - best bet as per Eddie's advice but consider one of these ... http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=2377 they also sell them in B&Q. Even with the best tackle (s/c/mitre saw) getting the angle correct isn't necessarily straightforward as the walls usually aren't vertical...