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hi my mum needs a new back door. she's looking for an external hardwood pattern 10 ( the ones that are fully glazed with just a frame around the outside) door. the trouble is that the size required is 1981x726 and the nearest i can get is 1981x762 so it will need 18mm cut off each side of the...

hi i'm vertical tiling the walls of my extension with redland plain tiles. i'm a bit unsure regarding pointing the edges of the tiles around my windows. i can't find any info online at all so i'm hoping one of you may know. is it best to lay a tile put some mortar on top of it and fit the next...

Hi I've got to replace a balustrade around a flat roof at my house. I want to use bolt down post supports (like metposts) but I want stainless steel as I'm close to the sea. I can only find galvanised or painted/galvanised. Does anyone know of a manufacturer who makes stainless ones or anyone...

Hi I've got a wooden balustrade (made of stair spindles and newel posts) that goes around the flat roof above my conservatory. Its been there for years and has recently blown down in the wind. Rather than replace it with another wooden one I want to put a glass and stainless steel up there...

hi i'm after a bit of advice, i'm going to get a hole in the wall gas fire fitted (by a gas safe engineer) but wanted to do a lot of the preparation myself to keep the costs down. the house was built in 1956. i've started to open it up and i think i've found the sides of the builders opening...

hi i'm fitting a new toilet for my mum and currently the cold water feed is galvanised steel pipe that's half in the wall and half out. i'm going to tile the walls too so this needs to go. i've found a screw connector where 2 bits of the pipe screw together and this is where i would like to...

hi i've just ordered some led mr16 low voltage spotlights on ebay for my kitchen like this . from the advert it says that the brighter ones don't have a glass lens (i assume so they don/t get too hot) my convern is are lights like this ok in the bathroom with no lens, bearing in mind they're...

Hi I'm going to overboard my mums kitchen ceiling that has just had polystyrene tiles removed from it and its a bit of a mess. I was going to use tapered edge plasterboard and the fibreglass self adhesive tape. From what I've read I should apply some easifill and then bed the tape into it...

hi i've got a pumped central heating/gravity hot water system. if i was attempting to convert it to a fully pumped S plan system can i use the 32mm flow and 28mm return of the gravity system for my pumped hot water or should i take this all out and replace it with 22mm? any advice appreciated

hi i'm fitting a shower pump in my airing cupboard and i'm just figuring out the routing of the pipes from the pump to the bathroom. will i have any issues if i take the pumped hot and cold back up into the loft and then back down into the bathroom (which will be a lot easier than going under...

hi i just had a new gas valve and pcb fitted to my potterton kingfisher mf rs70 boiler after it packed up recently. so after the expensive of that we'ew going to keep the boiler for a few more years. it's gravity hot water and pumped central heating. my question is can i fit a hot water...

hi a wall on the outside of my garage has been painted with synthaprufe or some type of bitumen and then rendered on top by someone a long time ago. the render is starting to fall off now and i would prefer to take it back to the original brickwork rather than re-rendering it again. some...

hi i'm ripping out my really old kitchen and fitting a new one. i'm going to be tiling the floor, i'm going to be fitting a plinth all the way round the bottom with the tiles just past this as opposed to wasting tiles and tiling the whole floor. should i tile the floor after fitting the...