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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

I need to add a double socket into my kitchen for use by a new fridge-freezer. The nearest cable coming out of the wall currently goes into a 3amp FCU, in which the combi-boiler is hard-wired. Could I... - replace the FCU with a 13amp unswitched spur - spur a 3amp switched FCU for the...