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Actually, that was a dumb question - of course the wood is MEANT to be straight. I think my 'cupping' (is that the right term?) may be due to the way the skirting was packaged and how I've stored it. The individual pieces were packaged so each one was the same way round as its neighbour (ie...

I bought a lot of Wickes Torus pine skirting board a good while ago. I was planning to fit it a soon as I bought it but because of numerous reasons I've only recently had time to get round to it. It has been stored flat and in my house since. My problem is that every single piece of...

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Hi, where can I get corner beading for the walls of my bay window? The external angle is greater than 90 degrees so I'm guessing I can't use the standard beads like I have purchased before from wickes. I believe beading designed for wider angles exists but I have no idea where to get it from...

Thanks guys. Had a quick flick through the Haynes manual. Looks pretty simple but is there anything I should be looking out for? Also any idea of roughly how much a replacment sensor may cost?

Hi, I am planning on replacing my car in the next fe months but my current car ('96 Renault Megane) has developed a problem. I need the car to last a while longer but don't really see the point in paying to have it fixed. Hopefully one of you guys may know what is causing the problem and if...

Nope Hardiboard/Hardibacker, a cement based tiling backer. Looks pretty good and is similar to aquapanel I believe. http://www.jameshardieeu.com/pages.php?pages=products&subpage=hbacker

I am planning nail Hardiboard to the studwork and tank the lot with the Bal WP1 Tanking kit. Sound about right?

Hi, I'm planning taking down a stud wall between my bathroom and lounge which will be replaced by longer stud wall with an area to fit a shower within the bathroom. I have taken the plasterboard off the wall already and it is simply a timber stud wall with no re-enforcments as within it...

Sorry, should have mentioned. I'm in a ground floor flat with no access from above.

I'm about to start work on completely refitting my bathroom. As part of this I will be taking down and replacing the ceiling, replacing the existing lighting installing a shower light/extractor and changing the location of the outside lightswitch. When I say 'I', I mean that I will be...

Well, I got home from work and set about to check everything you guys suggested. The boiler and pump had been off all day so the first thing I did was to check that everything was cold to the touch which it was (of course). I thought now that if I turned on the pump only and it got warm I...

Will do. As soon as I get home from work... promise. :)

As far as I can tell the pump has water in it as I get a trickle when I undo the screw on the front and also it is very hot to the touch as if it was full of the hot water from the boiler. I didn't run the pump or boiler until I had bled the system as much as I could. Chris, I'll...

Thanks for the replies. I do have an immersion heater in the hot tank but I'm not sure that there is any water in the tank (sounds empty when tapped) and also wouldn't my pump need to be working to get the water around the system? I tried a couple of things last night. I switched the pump...

I have bought a flat with what looks like a very old Ideal Classic LXFF Boiler and a Grundfos UPS 15-50 pump. I recently drained the system to replace some leaking pipework but I'm now having problems getting the system to fire up again. I thought I would go through what is happening in case...