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Hi, I have ripped out a badly damaged tiled fireplace to the builders opening, going to pick and point the stonework and put in a granite hearth. The fire surround which is currently up for debate on what we use may be plaster. In a local fireplace shop near me they had a fancy ornate 3...

Hello, I have recently completly gutted and refinished a lean to wash room and I am going to refit the old toilet, it is a low level cistern. When it was fitted before the cistern was simply screwed to the wall via the two holes in the back top corners of the ceramic. We have exactly the same...

I have a decent Makita circular saw, 190mm blade model if I remember. I was just thinking to be able to guide carefully through a band saw where you can cut the wedges in a oner and follow a line easily it would be good. I was looking at the Record band saw about £225, maybe just looking for an...

I get your comment. I am however building a log store leaning against a garden wall with my neighbour. The roof starts just below the top of the wall and rises to me on my side. I cant have the slates above the top of the wall all rain water will go over his side. The problem comes with trying...

Hello, I am making a large log store and in order to change the roof angle so the slates slope nicely to the guttering I want to fix long wedges to the rafters before I fix the sarking boards. I am making these wedges by angle cutting 100mm fence posts. The wedges will then 100mm wide by...

thanks gents gold on screwfix gets a huge amount of good write ups as youve suggested aswell. cheers

I'd probably describe myself as a serious DIYer anything from building stud partitions, tiling etc in the middle of building a log store at the moment from posts and rails with slate roof. I use screws for all manner of things obviously and have run huge stocks I have gatherd over the years very...

Its a hardwood set as per the title. I have edited my OP and tried to make it clearer. It is not the usual wheel adjustment to make the doors slide nicer and to make sure the door sits flat against the frame when it is closed. The problem area is where the two middle frame edges sit against each...

Hi, I have a Miele Prestige Plus 6 washing machine, its about 5 years old. At the end of any cycle's it doesnt allways spin. I notice this when I open the door the closes are soaking so I manual tell it to spin again. Every time it does this ok and spins the clothes. I phoned my local...

Hi, Was at my mothers and found a huge draft through her patio doors. They are the usual type from 20 years ago, one fixed panel and one door that slides across the fixed panel. From outside when they are closed there is a brush draft strip between the two frames which is compressed at...

Hi, Ive just tiled a washroom floor in my old house, it has a concrete floor and you step down from the kitchen into this lean too room. Ive tiled the floor with BAL dry powedered rapid set that I have mixed in batches as I have went and the floor is great. I havent grouted yet. The concrete...

It was universal 4-65W starters I was trying. I must admit I havent checked the wattage of the bulbs, it was dark and snowing at the time and I presumed the odd shaped bulbs like that would all be the same, stupidly! I will need to check all this. Are universal starters ok to use with a...

Mother asked me to change the bulb on one of her outside lights at the weekend, there are 4 one on each soffit corner. The bulb type is the Double D or Butterfly compact flurescent tubes. It was completly off to start so I changed the bulb. But the new bulb only partially lit. So I changed...

I am in the middle of tiling my washroom and small cloakroom toilet. I have the toilet out and it is going back in the same place. Does it make any difference if I put it back and tile round the bottom of the pan or if I tile under the pan and then have the toilet sitting on top of the...

Hi Frenchman, before I start I am not a pro, Im pretty practical though. I hadnt done any full on tiling for about 10 years and have just done pretty much exactly what your doing. Im just away to grout it. I would clean off as much as you can and I hoover aswell! My floor was similar and...

Hi, Last time I did any proper tiling was in my flat 10 years ago with my dads plasplugs small table top tile cutter with diamond blade, worked perfectly. I am doing up an old house and have loads to do and never scrimp on tools so had bought a big clinker (used this weekend, brilliant!)...

Ive just been and bought everything I need to tile a small washroom floor as a build up to doing a lot of tiling in an old house renovation. Topps tiles were extremly helpfull by the way. Anyway I came away with a couple of Rubi notched trowels one for walls and one for floors. Its a new...

Thanks for your comments.

Ok thanks. The floor is sound, so i get your advice. What about from a DPC point of view though. There wont be anything with the age of this floor and i have seen a little moisture show face on very wet days but that I think is more to do with outside harling and only happens near the edges...

Hello, I am away to tile my washroom floor tihs weekend. The washroom is a lean to building that used to be an outside toilet and coal bunker. You step down out of the house to the concrete floor about 6" below. It used to have lino from previous owners and when I lifted this there where...