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    Fitting a window over a door

    Our hallway is not well lit & i want to put a 350X850mm glass panel above a door to let light in. The wall is brick & although it's a bungalow the wall goes up into the loft where it tapers off & acts as an intermediary support for a roofing timber. What's the best way to cut out the hole...
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    Bathroom Heat & light fitting

    My Fathers old circular heatnNlight fitting has failed, I bought a new one to replace it but find the original one has the light wired to the lighting circuit but the circular heat element is wired to a separate power circuit wire. The new fitting is 750 watts & only has one connector...
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    colourwash for slabs?

    The slabs outside our patio door are old weathered dirty grey & some with large gaps between them, they were laid long ago by some incompetent DIY'er We've scraped out all the weeds & filled the gaps with mortar mix so that alone has made a huge difference but we wonder if it's possible to...
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    position of new boiler

    Warm front have told us we can have a new boiler but altho the old one has worked perfectly well in the veranda for 22 years we are told it's no longer permissible to fit in conservatories or similar outbuildings. We live in a bungalow & there is simply nowhere else the surveyor man could...
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    New floor standing boiler

    Were likely to be having a new boiler & tank, ours is a Myson Marathon around 17 years old or more & it struggles to keep going, it's in the outhouse with a vertical fluepipe We want a floor standing boiler but want to avoid a combi. Most boilers on offer seem to be wall mounted altho...
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    can't get new radiator to work

    I recently added a radiator in our small front room, the boiler is on the other side of the wall in the veranda & the main flow & return pipes go up the wall & into the loft but nowhere convenient to run pipes down to the new radiator. I decided to connect the pipes from the radiator thru the...
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