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Cheers Seco - as it happened i hadn't considered the valves but the cupboard is built into the wall and stops about 18inches from the floor (cupboard over stairs bulkhead on other side of wall) so wont affect the valves. Thanks for the help guys - i've got another busy weekend ahead if my...

If your going to paint the ceiling above the stairwell i would suggest that you get a ladder that will sit on your stairs and lean backwards to the bulkhead wall. You can then run a plank from this to a pair of steps at the top of the stairs. Dado rails are only ever waist height, so unless your...

Put a boggo emergency bulkhead in, wired through an upside down switch, i.e. when the rocker is up a connection is made, and flicking it down breaks the supply and the light comes on. That way you'll have light in there to reset anything that trips.

Correct the best location is at the highest point at the top of the stairs mounted on the ceiling as already said stay at least 0.5 m away from walls and 300 mm away from a bulkhead light fitting. This is due to the fact that the smoke rises and rolls across the ceilings. When it meets an...

Can’t understand why you would need to glue any part of a bed to a wall?

Just bought a house that's in fairly good nick but needs a bit of decorating. So, I have a downstairs living room with an open plan staircase up to the landing, I don't mind stripping the wallpaper off in the living room but it carries on up the stairs and onto the landing, I can live with the...

OK, thanks for the pic. Are you saying that the joists in the ceiling run the same way as the wall? If so you may safely remove the side wall. But because the lower back wall of the cupboard will follow the slope or soffit/bulkhead of the stairs you will have to take removing the brick wall...

I live in a first floor flat and want to alter the lighting on the stairs. (Mainly so I can fit an extra draught proof door as it is freezing). I need to move one of the existing light fittings and am thinking that if I replace the existing fluorescent with a maintained LED fitting like this...

Hello I have recently moved into a new property and like a lot of people I have had to set up a a office at home. My property is from the early 1980s and is a little sparse on plug sockets. In the office there are two single sockets on each wall. Currently I do not have the funds to to get...

its bound to be studded (unless it is a stone wall) Try and find the screws that attach the plasterboard to the studs with a magnet - then you will know where the studs are and you can screw the plywood to them

Hi all. Due to various reasons, we're considering taking on a little project ourselves. We want to remove a cupboard, modify the stair bulkhead and build a high-sleeper bed. Stage 1 is to remove the cupboard, but what are the chances of it being load bearing? Have been told it doesn't look like...

Do you have winders or a quarter turn landing above? The cracking might be due to insufficient support to the stair carcassing (timbers)? After removing the lower supporting framing it can be surprisingly difficult to properly support whats left. Sometimes, a steel is inserted to give a fixed...

We live in a three storey house :) The lighting for the top flight of stairs is done by a self contained PIR/lamp bulkhead type fitting, the kind that is often found outside, installed by the previous owner & I've never 'gotten round' to changing it to a more conventional arrangement...

Your existing floor plan gives you ample opportunity to rearrange the whole left wall side of things from the exterior former coal storage to the stairs soffitt or bulkhead. In fact, depending on money available ( as always ), you could re-arrange the whole ground floor layout, and save a...

Morning All, I have recent moved into a new build and outside the front door I have a security light fitted to entrance canopy. Ive never really used it until recently when someone's tried to get in our cars and houses at 4am! Unfortunately i had set up my door bell camera to be slightly...

I have recently bought a house and this is the layout upstairs (roughly to scale) I would really like to remove the wall coloured red. It is a 'walk in cupboard' but as it stands is completely useless due to the wall that is there at the moment. Once you 'walk in' you can't use the space...

I am looking for some advice on how to add a shower room/wc to my terrace house. The current situation is that access to the bathroom is through the back bedroom and therefore has caused issues when we have had guests. The waste pipes etc are at the back of the house. We are trying to...

This has given me some good ideas. Currently the only lighting on the fire escape is provided by two 8W fluorescent bulkheads which you can just see in the picture. One above the door on the first floor and one directly below above the first floor window. There is no lighting at all for the...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, they're faux stairs which I assume were used for getting books off the top shelves. I'm considering relocating the radiator to the back wall as it's in a rather awkward position at present. It's not something I've done before, so it would be a toss up between DIY and...

That's an excellent idea. blinkingheck - emergency lights don't have to look like the ones you see in offices and public buildings, nor do you have to have extra ones to be emergency lights, any fluorescent light can either be obtained with or converted to have an emergency battery backup...