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I went with frame fixings and they worked well. They would've been easier to use if I had bought better fixings, but they worked well in principle and I've learnt not to use that particular brand again. I think the concrete screws would probably work loose, but pretty sure these frame fixings...

I'm about to repaint my sash windows now that the weather has cleared up. They've been painted before, but the paint is flaking so I need to rub it back and start again. My wife keeps saying, 'primer, undercoat, topcoat'. However, I'm not sure she's right (although I wouldn't say that in her...

It's blocks. TBH, I would've naturally defaulted to frame fixings - it was just that I read an article suggesting concrete screws as an alternative, which I'd never considered before!

Finally getting round to replacing this door and frame with a new one, but can't make up my mind as to whether to use frame fixings or concrete screws. Any opinions?

No, the packaging is unbranded. I suspect someone more au fait with kitchen bits might recognise who the ultimate supplier is, but it does look like the Screwfix range is different from the B&Q range. The interior is the same as the exterior. I bought the 'oak' version, and the inside is the...

Ordered a couple of units to put out in the utility room. Decided not to risk a whole kitchen! However, the units came and they're not Cooke & Lewis. They do seem very good quality though - the cabinets look thicker than standard and they're glue and dowel too, which is stronger than what is...

It would be interesting to see if it is Cooke & Lewis. It wouldn't make much commercial sense to compete with the sister company with exactly the same range though? IMO anyway!

Thank you very much, that is all really helpful info.

Yes, please do let me know which you go for. I'm still very much at the 'working it out in my head' stage, but would value someone else's opinion!

Well, unsurprisingly, the blurb on the Screwfix Kitchens site is very positive, but the bits that caught my eye were the 25 year guarantee, glue and dowel construction and soft close as standard. I like soft close and if it does turn out to be rubbish, I've got 25 years to find out and...

Interesting thread here: http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=263858

I'm curious about this too. Mentally totting up how much a new kitchen would cost me, but I didn't realise that Screwfix even did kitchens. Have you found out anything more about them?

Yes, that's pretty much what I'd heard as well. It seems like a nice idea, but I can just see it turning out very expensive. Almost everyone else on our road has had these things ripped out, replaced with a conventional boiler, then they use the space left as a sizeable cupboard! However, I...

Genuinely hoping it's not the PCB. I can't see that ending well!

So a wisely selected combination of both techniques seems to be the way forward then?!

Yes, that's right. Occasionally it's fine, but then sometimes lukewarm. I've googled around and asked others on our estate (apparently all homes had these initially) and found some suggestions to swap out a sensor and cable, see if that does the trick and then start worrying about it. Just...

Thank you. I wasn't sure if it would be one of those tools which sounds great, but you find that everybody in the trade uses the score and snap method. I'll give it a go. I imagine that if you got yours in Wickes, they're pretty easy to pick up in B&Q, etc?

Cheers. I've heard these boilers can be expensive, and with my wife having got a new kitchen in her head, I'm hoping I can give the boiler a new lease of life!

I'm working on updating my kitchen, thinking of ripping out and starting again. It's a 1950's house with a 1990's kitchen, so it's not done badly but it's irritating the wife now, so it's bound to go! Before I start on that, I've got to tile a small bathroom. It's a bit fiddly, so I'm...

Hi, I have a Gledhill Boilermate and would like to know if there are any parts suppliers about. I think I need to replace a sensor (well, I want to try that first) as it's intermittently giving some strange temperature readings.