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I bought a Makita HR1830 on eBay, and it seemed fine until I went to use it today. I'm just using a normal Makita SDS+ 6mm masonry bit and it's noticeably wobbling when it's powered on. It's not just the drill bit that's wobbling, it's the whole end of the drill, from the release mechanism...

Not by choice. When I moved in only the area around the bath was tiled. I had to buy a new kicthen, rewire the kitchen, get gas installed, and new gas central heating, boiler, remove the old storage heaters and immerser... I didn't have money to do everything so I just cleaned the bathroom up.

I'm thinking those little tiles are the best option so far... the glass shower curtain would need to be removed, and it's pretty tatty and I'm not sure it'd survive the process. If I can get those tiles to do the job...

That might work too.. I have no idea if there's that much give in the legs, and the bath is behind painted, nailed on plywood so it'd be a destructive job to go in and find out. I don't suppose it's possible/easy to measure the height the bath is off the floor just now to guess if it could be...

Not what I thought either - nobody thought it'd be one of these 'orrible strips. I'm in two minds about those tiles. I would like the bathroom redone completely, tiled all over, the central heating pipe sunk into the wall, and the electric shower replaced with a thermostatic mixer. Plus a...

Well, it so happens it's Dow Corning I have arriving tomorrow. However more has happened. I was in stripping out as much as I can, and it came right off the wall. So it turns out it's NOT under the tiles, which I *think* is good news...

I used mould resistant silicone last week... it's gone mouldy already. I should say I did order more yesterday - http://www.angliatoolcentre.co.uk/dow-corning-2940281-trade-mate-silicone-sanitary-sealant-310ml-white-pid37716.html Perhaps that'll be better... I don't have a lot of faith...

I bought a flat last year, and I'm very inexperienced at DIY. My Dad claims to be the fountain of all knowledge, and he decided the bath would be nicer if he ran silicone underneath the edging strip of the tiles. It's a disaster. It fills up with black mould which eventually pokes out, it...

Yes, that was what I was thinking. I had a look around and conversion chart seemed to be saying a good size for yellow was 3.5mm and a good size for red was around 4.5mm. I'm guessing for wall plugs I want to be somewhere near the largest size the plug can take, but not at the upper limit...

I've got a SDS drill bit set added to the other, along with the chuck. I'm ready to order except that I can't understand screw sizes! I know I need size 6-8 screws for yellow wall plugs, and 8-10 size screws for red wall plugs, and I've been advised in another thread to use Fischer plugs and...

I'm still not able to grasp things in the way that I'd like. I understand the wall plugs - I'm about to order 100 fischer red and 100 fischer yellow ones. I need screws for them and a bit of googling shows that yellow takes 6-8 and red takes 8-10. Earlier in the thread I was advised to...

That's the two things I needed confirmed. I need just any adapter (turns out I'm going to get the official Makita one anyway) And I can't use the hammer function - I'm getting a set of SDS bits and chisels too, so when I do want to use it I'll simply use an SDS bit. This forum has been...

I needed a new drill, and I managed to find a good price on a Makita SDS+ hammer drill. It is of course overkill for what I'm after, but for the type of drill it's fairly small, and I got a corded SDS drill for the price of a normal cordless drill. My walls are tough to drill into so it'll...

I'm still a bit wary all the same. One of the places I'm going to be drilling is beside the boiler, and I know I asked for the cables for that to be sunk into the wall and a switch installed. I'm reasonably sure I won't be near the cable but I'd rather be completely sure. Perhaps it's a bit...

I ended up changing my mind and getting a Makita SDS hammer drill. I suspect I may have gone overboard but I got it for a very good price. I'm now thinking that I should be careful and not drill into electrical cable. My Dad never bothered, he says he knows where the cables are in his house...

I ended up getting Hard as Nails off ebay for £2 a pop.

Another genius and another John :) I will be doing the no more nails trick! I already use a hoover on the holes and then blast compressed air in there to clear out any rubbish. I'm right in buying "UniBond No More Nails Interior Grab Adhesive Cartridge" it says on it that it holds in 10...

The ones I have are metal and part of the bracket is tubes which the shelf slides on to. The shelves are sloping at a terrible angle and stuff is nearly falling off them, and they won't take any weight at all. I complained to Homebase about it and the manufacturer was supposed to get back to...

Well, I've already made a complete pigs ear a couple of months ago when I tried putting the floating shelves up, I can't tell if it's the shelves or if it was my fitting... I'll find out when I try to fix them I guess. I have enough to be going on with - that's next Sunday's jobs if I'm not...

Ok.. let me make sure I have this in my head correctly! I take my spirit level (I already have one) and I mark a horizontal line on my wall in pencil. I then place the bracket along that line, holding it place carefully and mark one single hole. I mask the mark (and mark again on top)...