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Flexible caulk. With a very small cut in the nozzle, start at the floor and pull up in one run. Wood filler is likely to crack and open up - only takes a piece of furniture to knock into it to flex the skirting enough to crack the filler.

If you want to use hardwood presumably you will stain rather than paint finish them? If this is the case you won't want screw heads showing so a liberal helping of gripfill on the sill will be sufficient. Cut the board spot on pre-fitting, including starting oversize and cutting the ears if...

That does look like a pretty stock door. May even find one of the irritating PVC people will be able to sell you one, or the B&Q's of this world might carry one in stock. Another source could be jeldwen [www.jeld-wen.co.uk] who make a range of nice composite doors. Only issue with the Jeldwen...

Price seems fair, I'd want a structural report done anyway no matter how much he takes out. Also, get copies of his insurances.

Joe-90 is right, it is probably still there somewhere. Work out roughly where you think it comes into the room and have a dig around OUTSIDE at the wall line to try to find it. You may also find if you inspect the concrete that there is a scar or change in texture / colour where a stack was...

What you have by the sound of it is a cementitious board, not an AIB. AIB's [unsealed board] are the ones you need to call NASA in to remove. The panels you have just need disposing of in the correct way. Venting / transit routes, pressurised enclosures etc are not necessary. If you go...

Doesn't seem to have done any damage to my car and I have been doing it for years, over all the stone chips on the front etc. It is quite a new car with presumably good paint process though so stands up to it well? Clean Wheels is a cleaning product designed for cars, specifically for getting...

Building control will give you an inspection schedule when you lodge your application. This will set out what needs inspecting and the notice periods they require. You don't need to worry about clustering things together, if you're lucky you'll get a good inspector who will let you get on with...

You could cut a section out and replace the plasterboard with BG Glasroc Rigidur H. This board can take something ridiculous like 30kg off a single fixing.... You would re-finish it just like ordinary plasterboard to get your seamless wall, unlike ply which will always look like painted ply...

Do you have a solicitor who can act for you? I know it sounds lavish but it really is the best thing to do. Just give everything to the solicitor and let them sort it, that way you won't be wasting earning time or spare time trying to sort it and won't get yourself wound up over it. If we...

Stiff gears at start up - oil is cold? Although the fact that they shift when engine not running could indicate a clutch problem ie not disengaging fully. Check clutch fluid level, clutch adjustment [if any - we have a Vivaro but I'm not sure what 'underneath the bonnet' looks like!]. Drop...

A brake drum is held on by the wheel itself and the wheel studs prevent it spinning. The grub screws are to prevent it falling off when the wheels are off. Don't be afraid to give it a really good thump with a big hammer - use a dead blow if you're worried [hollow filled with pellets or even...

Could be synchro's on 1st & second [like a pair of phosphor bronze gears that run together between the main gears to slow everything down to allow it to engage - when you're rolling the gears will be moving so have a better chance of meshing them.], if so it's a gearbox rebuild or replacement...

Get a haynes manual from halfords, that will show you where the fixings are for the door card - probably screws hidden in the pull handles behind some blanks, push fittings on the bottom edge and just lift up and off the top edge by the window seal. Will need to remove door lock pulls, latch...

you could surely just buy something from magnet or howdens?

Pixels aren't everything. You need lots of the little monkeys if you're shooting wide angle, landscapes, streetscenes - anything with lots of detail to squeeze in at distance - or if you need to print really large format. I reckon 7MP is enough for up to A1 prints from what I've done off the...

I had a '99 Volvo V40 1.9D for a couple of years. It was a nice enough car and I loved it but as an estate it was rubbish! I could only get 4 boxes of carpet tiles in the boot with the seats up. Our CM could get about 15 in his mondeo! Handled nicely and was quite 'pretty' - in XS form - but...

Autoglym Clean Wheels [white bottle, orange label] will fetch anything off. About 8 quid a spray bottle. Be very careful, don't let it dry o the paint as it's acidic. I use it across the front of my car [3 year old Audi so don't worry, I'm not recommending a treatment only suitable for a 25...

Depending on how out of plumb your walls are, the best way to go is likely to be to use British Gypsum Gypliner wall channels. It's an adjustable system whereby you fix a bracket to the wall and a pressed galv metal channel to the brackets to keep the wall lining vertical. It's standard...

Is the floor lower because of subsidence - has the concrete cracked around the wall, is it clear that some of the 2 inches of brickwork above the slab used to be hidden by concrete? Are there cracks elsewhere in the slab? If so you really ought to think about breaking out the whole slab and...