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i have old oak floorboards in my living room. at the moment they look like they are completely untreated (there is no varnish-like sheen to them). i am going to get them professionally cleaned and then want to add a preservative coating to them, my choices seem to be Ronseal Diamond Hard...

i live in a 100yr+ farmers cottage which i'm slowly sorting out. i have finally reached the stage for carpets! (woohoo... 10 months solid work later!) the living room (ground floor) was covered with laminate flooring so i pulled this up this morning. Beneath it was some rather skanky...

i presently have a 3-lamp track light attached to the ceiling in the eves of my loft bedroom... i would like to replace this with three individual pendants spaced a little further apart. the cable supplying power to the track light has one single dedicated light switch (ie. not controlled by...

i have a new techflow negative head twin-ended pump for supplying a shower (on the same floor as the hot water tank) and a loft bathroom. when the pump was fitted, i also had the techflange fitted to the tank (drilled in to the side of the tank, approx 3/4 of the way up the tank). the pump...

i have just a nice shiny new Techflow QT-80-2 NHE twin-ended negative head pump fitted to supply a shower (adjacent to tank and pump) and full bathroom (above, hence negative head part). With the pump, I had a Techflange fitted (essentially an essex flange)... geat stuff except for one...

i've just put a new shower in and am having problems with it. the shower is a single control thermostatic unit connected to a 6" rose. the single lever goes from cold to hot in about 3-4 turns (it came from trueshopping.co.uk). the shower is connected to the cold water supply and hot water...

i am building an ensuite in a loft room which will place it up in the eves... the vertical walls to each side of the bathroom will be approx 800mm high, before turning up at an angle to meet at the top. i want to place the extractor so the ducting can flow through to the sofet and...

i have two pir-activated lights attached to the garaging at the end of my garden... for some odd reason, they now appear to be on 24/7 even though i don't think i have touched any switches. any idea why this might have happened? cheers

i'm having a new ensuite fitted in our loft room. i've got the water supply issue sorted with a Techflow QT80-2-NHE negative head twin pump (thanks to the forum for providing the advice and resources for this particular aspect) i now have to turn my attention to the subject of waste water...

Good evening all, Hi there, I am just renovating my cottage and I need some shower pumps. My existing pump is a Salamander Contract 50 (1.5 bar) twin which supplies a single shower located roughly adjacent to the hot water tank on the first floor. This pump sprung a leak which made...

we noticed the other evening that when there should be hot water, there wasn't... i selected the heating advance manually this evening and the boiler made a fairly lengthy dull ticking noise before firing into life (the pilot light is on)... it then ran for a while before switching itself...

i've spent most of the day trying to strip back my bannister... having initially begun by sanding some of the bannister back to the raw pine, i realised (perhaps a little foresight would have helped here) that i would not be able to easily get to some of the parts with a sanding block... ...

we bought some b&q wood satin for our doors and skirting boards... having painted it on, it ended up looking more like gloss than anything else... we have now bought some eggshell to paint over it... but before we do, would i be right in assuming that all we need to do is to give the satin...

just removed a small desk which was inset into an alcove,,, it has left a groove (approx 1 inch deep by 1 inch high) around the walls of the alcove... i want to fill in the groove, but before i dig out the big pot of polyfilla, how do would i best stabilise the crumbly expose plaster... do i...

my new house has some rather naff decorative tiles in the kitchen and bathrooms. we're ditching the old kitchen so will put in new tiles, but in the bathrooms we may stay put for a while. the decorative tiles are surrounded by basic white tiles... my question is... is it possible to...

we're just redecorating our guest bedroom and my wife decided that i should remove all the original woodchip paper from the ceiling. i have now got it all off and just need to remove some of the backing paper. on removing the woodchip i have exposed a number of long cracks across the...

this is my first post, so be gentle with me! i've just bought myself a lovely new forest cottage which was owned by a former electrical contractor... the good news therefore is that much of the wiring is new including a new distribution box with rcd's etc... anyways... to the point... i...