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We are fitting a basic kitchen in the coming weeks in a very small flat. The old carpet has been removed and we are planning on replacing it with basic laminate flooring from ikea. So what's best Do the flooring and place the cabinets on top?... Or.... Fit the cabinets on the...

Hi All! Wondering is anyone can offer some advice. My mother in law (not a joke) is 80+ years, and super bad legs and is 50% of the time in a wheel chair. She has a very hard time getting in and out of the shower because the shower is raised, her husband (also in to his 80s) helps her in...

Just recently our downstairs toilet is making the stranges noise every time it's flushed. It sounds like a horn, or am organ, it vibrates though the walls upstairs. The sounds only there when it's refilling, and it would seem (though I'm unsure) that running the tap helps. Any ideas what...

Hi All, In my living room, i have some wall lights and a ceiling light. Iv just replaced all the wall lights and that went fine (all working) Then it came to changing my wall dimmer switch to a nice new standard two switch light switch. For the life of me I cannot get it...

We have a few Velux windows that the seal has gone on the pane - so, I'm looking to replace the glass, which is fine, Velux make this very easy. Currently thou theres a pretty big build up of condensation. But, due to laziness, it's taken it over a year to think about changing the glass...

Hi again (this is really becoming my come to website for issues and questions!) So, been living in this great house for a couple of years, and we have finally gotten around to talking about decoration and heres the problem... everything in my place - doors, windows, stair banister...

Hi all, looking for some advice.. I had to drain my central heating system to change some valves on some rads - all went fine, the rads are all heating up fine after I refilled the system. But now heres the thing.... When I turn on hot water the boiler does nothing, and does not...

Hi all. A couple of weeks ago I emptied the system to change a few faulty, old, rusty, leaking valves.. All went fine, and the heating system works way better than before. But one radiator is causing a problem. Basically I removed the old valve - which basically fell off in my hand...

Hi there, We have a cold water tank in our loft that no longer has a jacket (long dull story, but I had to remove it) Our plastic tank is 1100mmx620mmx600mm For the life of me I cannot find a jacket that will fit - It seems this is quite a large tank. Another small problem, our tank...

Hi All, In my house we have 3 loft sections (its a bungalow with multiple extensions). One of the lofts is pretty easy to get too, the other two (which run down the side of a room) are super pains in the rear - Both are around 600cm x 170cm basically, Im 6.1ft, its limited...

Hi all, I have 5 velux windows all around 15 Yeats old. On everyone the vacuum/seal of the double glazed glass has gone and they need replacing (they have fungus/water inside them and there's a build up of condensation on some of them) I called velux and was given a cost of £750ish for...

Hi, Looking for some tips and advice. Our current house has a lot of dark stained wood doors/skirting, it also has a dark stained staircase. Personally I don't like it, I find it dark and dirty looking and I'm looking to paint them a nice clean White. So....I'm thinking about painting...

Hi, Looking for some advice.... Iv gotten hold of some cheap flooring that Im hoping to install in a small office (about 2x7meters). Now typically this would be simple, but I have a small door frame that Im not sure what to do with - obviously I need to alow a gap around skirting...

Hi, Im looking to knock a interior (brick) wall though to connect two small rooms. I realise this is a how long is a peace of string kinda question but is there anything I should be on the look out for when I get quotes.. Is £500 to little, or is £20,000 too much, would they cut...

Hi All, Im after some advice regarding a (unused) telephone socket in the house. The previous owners installed 2 independant telephone lines - One that was a general line and another that was a buisiness line. Now that we have moved I have a useless phone connection in the office...

Hi All... Im selling our house and our buyer as asked me to fix a few things with the house...which is all fine but Im not sure really how to go about it. first thing.. We have a PVC back door that we have cut and installed a cat flap in. The buyer has asked me to replace the panel. Who...

Hi all. I live in a 15 year old semi. While its a pretty nice house its a very cheaply made - thin walls, woodchip floorboards, partition walls etc... heres my problem. We get quite alot of noise from next door, unfortunately for us our bedroom is right next to next doors new born babys...

Hi, Iv recently moved into a house with crappy woodchip floorboards, in one room I have placed screews about in inch from every nail. This has improved things, but on a few spots it still creaks a little. A frend told me that I should have used a nail punch on the nails before adding...

Hi, Iv just moved into my new house, and its great......apart from the floor boards. There those cheap woodchip ones, and they bang, creak, and pop whenever you walk around upstairs, and it ecos down stairs quite alot. Anyway, In one room I have lifted the carpet and put a load of...

Hi We have recently replastered, repainted the house ready to sell. Now, over the last few days with all the rain we have noticed that some of the walls are damp at the bottom. The walls are damp in two places.. 1: front of the living room, meter wide and about 6 inches high 2: on...