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Wife has bought a light from France, with a European plug, obviously! But it's some weird massive plug. Question is, can I just chop off the plug and rewire into a UK plug. Photo attached.

Recently moved home into a place with newly renovated dot and dab walls. The hammer action on my old Bosch corded drill doesn't seem to be working anymore. Took me ages to drill a hole. So I started using my SDS drill, but getting cracks on plaster and holes too big etc, even on slow setting. Is...

We've had our bifold doors broken into. But are struggling to find a suitable lock for inside as extra security. Seems there are a few around for windows and sliding doors but they don't look like they'd work for bifolds. Any suggestions?

Fresh pine skirting that I don't want to paint with gloss, but also don't want dark wood, nor them turning orange, but want them light and the wood grain showing through. Need to be protected, since it's skirting. Was thinking liming wax after a previous post, chippy then recommended instead an...

Got brand new pine skirting and am wondering about whitewashing them with diluted white emulsion to lighten them, but leave the woodgrain showing through, hopefully producing a nice effect. Presumably then they would also need protecting with a matt varnish. Anyone know if that would that work...

This is my first proper DIY job with electrics. I'm running a cable from a light to a ceiling fan, which isn't all that far away (about 50cm). I know how the electrics work, as in which cables to connect to which, but it's physically laying the cables that I'm not sure about. The room is a...

I'm not an electrician! I was thinking that replacing a light fitting with another would be an easy job. That is until I discovered the previous owner hadn't wired the ceiling rose in what I understand to be the standard way. No surprise there, the guy was a right bodger! (Just like me!) So...