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Do you mean rubbish that a heating engineer can't do it or do you mean rubbish that it's possible under 2.5K?

Ok, so it might be possible in my budget. I do have unusual tastes, I don't like warm. I like cold and clean. Black/white/chrome - we all have our own tastes! Edit : Oops I should say that I'll take the advice to go look at how things are these days. I may find that painted with tiles is...

Well, he did do my central heating for considerably less than I had thought. There's a lot of tiling work in there so the tiler coming tomorrow will quote too (or just going ahead with the small tiling job if I don't get the bathroom done). I wouldn't expect a quote from you guys to have any...

The heating engineer who put in my central heating last year said he could do a new bathroom for me if needed. He's due tomorrow to service the boiler and I'm going to ask him to price for that. It's not a large bathroom, 3.25m x 1.5m and I'd be looking for a bog standard bath with a glass...

The tiles were put up by the council around 20 years ago and they will be leaving, the tiler will hopefully give me a quote I can afford to get the whole room done. I still want it all done, not too concerned what other people think, I feel tiles are clean and neat and that's what I want. All...

Hi, that link didn't work. However if it's these - http://www.towertiles.co.uk/Johnson-Opal-White-Bath-Trim-Set then that's what I intend doing. The bath isn't an easy job to tile as it's slightly recessed into the wall at one end, so the tiler will have joy with that. There's a tiler...

So... it was the live wire. It's been re-insulated, so no extra work required on the wall other than a plastering patch, which I can manage. However he tested my RCD. Unresponsive..... it turns out the RCD is faulty (although the test button works) and had I been properly earthed... well...

If it's of any interest.... Electrician is coming in half an hour. From what I described on the phone he thinks it'll be ok, but he wants to test the RCD.

Hmm, I'm tempted. However I already have 4 boxes of screws and once I find screws that are just right for yellow and red wall plugs, I don't know that I'll need more.. and if I do I'll buy a box. I do have one of those boxes already and I use it for odd screws for PCs - I build them from time to...

I think the problem is where I end up painted in to a corner, so to speak. My dad and I have different opinions on things. I'd rather buy the best tool, he'll buy the cheapest, I'll think a job out from start to finish, he'll get it started as quickly as possible. I learned from him, and...

Taking your advice that the bracket may not be properly fixed to the wall I removed both and made lots more holes trying again. I now have a messy wall to fix, however the large top shelf is now perfectly level - I've checked with a spirit level. The bottom shelf is not, but it's not visibly...

I don't have the option of leaving it until Christmas. My home is a disaster right now and needs fixed. I've made my 6th attempt on the floating shelves, and failed. The wall plugs came back out when I used the Plasplugs kit which had the drill bit I was supposed to use inside it. I tried...

I've already read up on them... as soon as someone mentioned them in the thread I read up on them.... I've about had it with DIY. I spent more than it would cost to get a tradesmen to do the decoration of the flat, because my dad made a mess of it - wallpapering done badly, all his gloss...

I guess that means an electrician and a plasterer then :/

I didn't realise cables might go straight up, I thought they would go left and right. Of course I was wrong.... The screw that wouldn't go in was the top right. Both of the left screws went in fine - in fact I'd drilled holes, put in no more nails and then a a wall plug in and then the screw...

Yes, that's what I'm about to do. As for what the electrician does... will the plasterwork need a lot of work?

That would be my guess too. Although I don't know how to find out.

The one that did the electrical work has his mobile off. I've just turned off the supply to the kitchen and I'll leave it off until he comes out. What I mean when I say that I don't understand how severe it could/should be at 240V is that while I'm not sure it is the full 240V I'm getting (I...

I didn't expect any cables to be there.

I do get shocks still.. even with the boiler turned off. I've really no idea what I'm doing. I don't have a multimeter. so I have no way of testing if it's live. The shocks are small, I've had a 240V shock before when I was in my teens. My dad had cut the lawnmower cable and fixed it with...