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Hi Cooa99 What you want to do is quite straight forward. However you must make sure you read and understand the instructions supplied with the jig. Secondly having the right tools helps. The router must be 1600 watt minimum with a 1/2" collet and fitted wth a 30mm guide bush and sharp...

I had one of these but managed to kill it whilst cutting some skirting board recently. So anybody want a spare blade or the whole thing for spares just let me know..... :D :D :D

Ikea kitchens base cabinets have also non standard height size when compared to the well known high street names. This can cause problems with certain integrated appliances. The Ikea base cabinets have a height of 700mm whilst the others are 720mm so this normally means that if you have an...

Try www.ironmongerydirect.com however its £5.95 for next day if under £45 But they do a nice catalogue

Having fitted several kitchens over the years including a couple of Ikea ones they require no greater creativity in fitting than the ones bought from the big high street names. With Ikea the trick is to run the services either under the floor or at floor level and then pop them up at the...

I bought a wickes tilt and clamp workbench about 7 years ago for about £15 for what was going to be a 1 off job but it is still going strong. Ok the work surface area is not very big but the fact you can tilt both sides up to 45 and 90 degrees independently of each other has proved to be very...

Too right......... every thing down here is done at Cornwall time. It depends on where you live and the size of the job but I can do bricks and block work or I can recommend someone who's work is of good quality and would have back to do work on my house again.

Hi, In part 1 I mentioned I had water filing a hole I had dug in the basement. We believe the source of it to be from cracks and holes around our neighbours front door step and the guttering. (See photo) My neighbour has seen the problem and provisionally agreed to remedy the fault...

Ok.. The water level in the hole is receeding (there has been no rain here today). I don't believe it to be the water table as my understanding of geology the water table only varies on a seasonal basis. As similar depth holes dug in the garden do not fill with water on dry days.

"The water table is the level at which the ground water pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure." However if it helps the current level of the basement floor is about 250mm higher than the garden on to which it opens out on to and my garden does not flood.......

Thanks Woody..... But knowing that the level at which the ground water pressure is equal to atmospheric pressure does not really answer my questions. :roll:

Hi, Thanks for the advice on floor spec for building regulations for my basement conversion So yesterday afternoon (Saturday) I started a 1 m2 test dig I excavated down about 600mm before my wife came home and started to complain about the mess even though it was confined to a small area of...

Ok, :o So it looks like I will now have to ask for your recomendations for a concrete floor spec. I curently have to excavate down 220mm just to reach the minimum celing height for the landing area. As the total floor area is 32m2 reasonable recomendations are welcome. The floor will only be...

That reminds me of the time when I drilled into a gas pipe. I hasten to add it was many years ago when I first started to do DIY.

Hi, I am soon to start work on converting my basement in to dwelling rooms. fortunately it does not suffer from damp as basement only covers the rear portion of the house and has a door that opens on to the garden. However the landing area at the bottom of the stairs has a height 1.8 to meters...