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I have recently acquired some pitch pine (I think) parquet wood blocks which I intend to lay in my hallway. From research on this site I understand the best way to sand a herringbone pattern is using the same grit paper in horizontal and vertical lines. My problem is that the hallway is only 1.3...

Hi - I have a potterton EP which looks like the EP4002 but in brown. Last night (hottest of the year!) my central heating came on even though the slide was still switched to off. I fiddled with the switch and eventually resorted to pulling it out to check the contacts but the only way to get the...

I am laying slate tiles into my kitchen but I'm intending on stripping back the floorboards in the hallway - by the time I've fixed an 18mm ply subfloor, schuter-ditra matting and the tiles I'm going to have a threshold difference of 35-40mm! I was intending to put down a schuter reno-u reducer...

I'm converting a 1930's semi that was converted into two flats in the late 70's/early 80's back into a single house. The conversion was quite poorly done and consisted of building a wall alongside the staircase and dividing the old large doorway into two. The wall was built directly onto...

I am thinking of laying a parquet floor throughout the ground floor of my house. The current floors are mostly t&g floorboards so I was going to follow mattysupra's advice about levelling the floor but just wanted to check if I was going to cause problems letting the room breathe. The previous...