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Ha ha, fair enough mate. I do try not to be *that* person lol. Yeah I figured as much that I should try to get a decent one. I'm guessing the fitting will be as trivial as I think? - Slice out the old one, put in new one, bit like wiring a plug...

Oh I know they exist, I have already googled that (but thanks). I was more enquiring as to whether these were seen as a good solution, safe products or just rubbish... hence asking if the other solutions were worth considering... I've used normal rocker switches but never inline dimmers, didn't...

Guys, I'd like to turn a normal bedside light with an inline rocker into a dimmable light... would you: a. Buy an inline dimmer, cut the existing out out and fit the new one - thinking this is about the same as wiring a plug. b. Get some fancy tech solution like philips hew or whatever? c...

As this picture shows, before I tidied up this morning - chewing to get through the paper really. And yeah, the short work they made of the conkers!

Thanks for the reply, really detailed and helpful, there's a lose floorboard, I'm thinking I should drop some bait down there first then. My theory is they were chewing through that as I stuffed it with newspaper so they needed to sort of chew/push the newspaper out before getting to the conkers...

Yeah, that's another line of defense, however, there's a few food places near by so there's a plentiful supply I'm guessing. So, combining this with plugging any gaps seems the best idea to me!

Hello everyone, We have mice in our house and one of their entry points is the under the stairs cupboard. I know this because we had some conkers in there (for spiders!) and they nibbled them like crazy. See pictures for what I'm trying to solve... As you can see quite a few pipes, and some...

I have a punch from when I was doing my floors. Gah, so they don't make the oldskool ones anymore then? Seems I basically have 'nails' now tbh!!

Hey guys, I've got some panel pins from eBay, however, I'm wondering if they're actually panel pins! See the pic (that's me testing, not actually work!!) I very vaguely remember my dad having panel pins, which once driven in, were nearly invisible, not having a round head like these. Did I...

We're talking holes about the diameter of a pencil, I'd have thought getting mortar in there, and to stick, would be a pain no?

Well I sorted it... Using a dremmel of all things. Just trial and error in the garden with a spare bit of quadrant nailed to an old bit of floorboard. Unconventional but seems to have worked!

Hey guys, We have a few holes in our bricks where I've removed some old coax or sky cables mostly. Just wondering what's best to fill with? I got some external filler from Homebase, but it was bloody awful! Pressure required to get it out of the tube meant the tube bust in my hand! That and...

Just to say, the varlight worked a treat, would look better without the spacer but I knew that, does the job just fine!

I didn't want it to actually be much of a 'feature' tbh - I just wanted something to cover a gap under the window - so the smallest I could get away with - plus it's a very small room - I brought a selection of short lengths and the 16 or 18 mm were a bit big for the dinky room. Problem at the...

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Hey guys, I need to install some 12mm quarant/quarter round in a small room with wooden floor. I have looked and it seems best practice is to scribe internal joints and mitre external ones. All mine are internal, so scribing it is! I haven't scribed before but I'm up for giving it a go. I...

Well that's good, I bagged one plus Spacer on eBay about a hour ago! (from a varlight gold supplier, not some random geezer)

Think I'm rolling with the fit a Spacer option. 10mm, quite cheap and quick. If it looks cack then the other options come into play. Thinking varilight v-pro.

Hmm, that's similar to what I I'd before, but the results were a bit hit and miss! Plus, if someone else sees me doing this in the nearly done nursery, the baby might come sooner than we're banking on!

Based on the walls in my house, that would seem quite a chore, the last time I had to do that it took about half a day with a coal chisel, followed by some filling... Plus everything else in the room is decorated! The varilight confuses me, they say 25mm min, but this review...