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    Kitchen units / fitting floor

    thanks Foxhole I think 22mm is the maximum Howdens legs can be raised by, so if the customer wants engineered wood at 15mm with a 5mm underlay, that only leaves 2mm to play with. which would be fine but I reckon there's a slight slope on the sub-floor so i'd rather have a bit more than 2mm to...
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    Kitchen units / fitting floor

    little query i hope someone can help with! I've got a Howdens kitchen to fit. home-owner still undecided on what flooring to have so will have to fit flooring afterwards. not a problem usually but she doesnt know if she wants 15mm engineered wood (with 5mm cushion underlay) or a thinner...
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    Floating drawer

    hi guys - what materials would you use to replicate this: http://www.housetohome.co.uk/image/550/550/imageBank/d/dressing_table-modern-livingetc.jpg Is it a standard torsion box shelf with drawers underneath? Or could the worktop and drawers be purchased off the shelf? I was thinking maybe...
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    Sanding a sharp edge onto 6mm MDF

    Hi there - I'm putting the finishing touches to some tortion box shelves... the 6mm MDF face strip I've glued on the front of each shelf overlaps with the underside by about 1mm and the cut edge itself is slightly uneven due to having been hand cut. what is the best way of sanding this flush...
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    Screw and batten thickness... will my shelves fall down?!

    Thanks for that. If i use standard rawl plugs and the longer screws as you suggest, could i still get awau with using the 18x28 battens? Thanks!
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    Screw and batten thickness... will my shelves fall down?!

    Hello - would appreciate any comments on my plans for my sitting room alcove book shelves... The alcove is 100cm wide. Walls are plastered brick. I am going to use 18mm MDF for the tops, fixed on to battens on the side walls and along the rear wall. 6mm MDF underneath and front to create a...
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    cabinet - seamless joint between front face and side panel?

    hello - i'm building an alcove cupboard. a bit like this... http://www.shelvingcompany.co.uk/alcovecupboards.html ... what is the best way of obtaining a seamless joint between the face frame and the side panel that protrudes from the chimney breast. if i'm using 18mm mdf, would a...
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    Type of wood for alcove cabinet?

    Hello - building a cabinet in alcove at the weekend. Going for a "shaker style", so will be painted white eggshell. Now, what type of wood should I be buying? I already have some cabinet doors that I will reuse, but for the frame front to stick around them ... bog-standard whitewood PSE from...
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    Box shelving alcove

    hello - i have a chimney alcove that is filled with shelving. i have a problem with condensation forming behind the books down one side- the wall is cold to the touch, so I'm assuming lining the alcove with celotex would be a way forward (in addition to increasing ventilation to the area). it's...
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    Insulating chimney alcove

    Thanks for the reply. So, I'll need to screw through the celotex, into the wall, for the ply... And shall I do the same for the shelf supports - screw through the celotex into the wall? Because presumably I'll need to go deeper than 18mm for the screws for these, as they're pretty heavy...
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    Insulating chimney alcove

    hi there, Alcove next to the chimney breast is filled with book shelves, floor to ceiling. Trapped air, cold brick walls = condensation problem! so, have stripped the paper, bleached the area, now planning on giving the area a coat of anti-damp paint, before battening up and insulating with...
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    About my kitchen cabinet downlights...

    thanks for that. so, as the transformer is pre-wired at both sides, i use 2 junction boxes (or 2 choc boxes)? and there's no earth on the transformer, so do i just terminate the one from the FCU in the JB? and to be really thick, i can run two lamps off the single JB? cheers
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    About my kitchen cabinet downlights...

    Electrician has left me with a new bit of twin and earth sticking out the wall (which runs from an FCU)... ...one of these (pre-wired 240 to 12V transformer)...
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    Drilling hole in steel sink for tap

    Need to make hole in steel sink for tap - not got a large enough drill bit, and would rather not buy one (would only use it once!), so does this sound like a sensible alternative: - mark circle in pen on sink - drill series of holes round circle with regular drill bit - large circle of...
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    Is electrician telling me the truth?!

    redoing kitchen... plasterer needs to skim the walls, but also need new sockets added to the ring main. first electrician says I could hollow out the walls for the new socket boxes and chase in the cable myself. He'd come in and connect up once the plasterer had been. And he'd give me...
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    Where to start?! My kitchen wall

    I'm removing old kitchen units and the tiles - this is the result so far: Various layers of looser plaster and wallpaper. Should I remove all loose plaster and the wallpaper, then PVA it all and re-plaster over the top to a level finish? (Eventually, I want to paint it and tile a...
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