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Hi, I am just about to decorate my living room which requires a fair bit of work doing to it: So I planned on taking the rad off the wall. I would obviously like to keep the rad off but still heat the rest of the house whilst I'm plastering etc. Is this possible? Thanks

Hello there, I have a living flame gas fire with a brass surround and brass front-grill/grate thing. I can't afford a new fire but I can't stand the brass. Is it possible to sand it down/key the surface and then paint it with black fire-proof paint? Thank you

Hi, I'm about to fit a quadrant shower tray in the corner of my newly-plastered bathroom. I've just offered the tray up to the wall and it seems on of the walls bows out near the corner so there is around a 1cm gap between the tray and the wall. I want to tile the enclosure, what's the...

I need to cut a hole in my bathroom ceiling which has been freshly boarded and plastered. What's the best way to cut a 100mm circular hole in the ceiling?

Can I use these service valves with polypipe? The pipes have pipe-stiffener inserts in and they don't seem to leek under pressure. Thanks,

Hi, What would you recommend the best way is to secure skirting to walls which aren't very true. The walls are brick. Thanks.

I've tried searching but I can't quite find what I need... ... I am going to be fitting spotlights once the ceilings have been plastered. The existing wiring for the light has 4 wires, live, neutral, earth and a second live (which I presume is the switch). I obviously only need a live...

.... I need to take a couple of rads off for the plasterer to skim the walls and to paint behind them... The combi boiler is turned off, am I right that I just need to bleed to air out of the rads by opening those valves at the top (technical name) and then turn the nobs at the bottom to...

Hi, I've done a search but couldn't find exactly what I wnated... ... I'm adding a socket to my wall, I've cut it into the plaster and got the box in place. My question is, I want to run the single socket from the ring main in the dining room, it's going to be for an LCD tv mounted on...

Hi, I seem to remember already seeing a topic about this, but I can't find it now... If I were to lay porcelain tiles in my bathroom, could the toilet go on top of them, so that I don't have to cut a curve in the tiles? Oh, and the sink. It would be on ply. Thanks :)

Hi, The floor in my kitchen is concrete and I'd like to have an island with a sink on it. For waste, will I have to cut into the concrete, allowing a gradient for drainage for the waste pipe?

Hi, I'm knocking through from the kitchen (concrete floor) into the dining room (floorboards) in a 1930s house. It looks like there will be a slight difference in height between the two floors and I'd like to have the whole thing tiled uniformly. What do I have to consider when taking...