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Hi, Looking for a little expert advice if possible. Georgian house. Have lifted entire room of tongue & groove pine floorboards and am replacing them with reclaimed floorboards, also pine, and left in the room to acclimatise for a few weeks. I have run the reclaimed boards through my...

Contemplating installing some 12V RGB SMD strip inside the front of a bullnose profile shelf. The shelf itself is some 4.5m long, and I'm looking to light about 4m of that as below (image shows cross section of front of shelf). I don't intend ever to have the LEDs in use for a continuous...

I have a pair of DeWalt DE9503 2.6Ah 18V NiMH batteries which are pretty much dead. Given the prohibitive price of new DW batteries and the questionable provenance/quality of generic replacements, I want to try replacing the cells. However... I don't have the time to sit and manually solder...

Hi folks, Read the wiki and searched the net, but can't find an answer to the following. As part of room renovation I'm swapping a single socket outlet for a double. Our flat is 1970's vintage and there's no separate CPC in the ring (just black and red wires, and each socket face...

Hi, Apologies for the lazy question. It's been a long day and my brain is fried. Feel free to tell me to bu**er off and find the answer for myself. We've got a single inline fan serving two internal rooms (WC & bath) parallel switched by two PIRs (one in each room). I want to swap the...

I've got three DW 18V 2.6Ah NiMH batteries that are around 6/7 years old but have seen only very light use. They've been charged maybe 200x max in that time. One of them has recently stopped taking a charge (rapid flash) and one of the others seems to be going the same way (charger only...

Sorry, but this is yet another "which preservative should I use" question. I have searched the forums, but most questions of this kind seem to focus on maintaining the colour/aesthetic qualities of decking etc., or at least balancing that consideration with out and out preservation by using...

Replacing the ceiling roses in my house. All the lights have a metal backbox and the rose attaches with 2 brass screws, but I have managed to lose a few of the screws. Since the house was built in the 50's I'm assuming they're not gonna be metric. Does anyone know what they're likely to be...

Hi all, What fixings are best to use in horrible 60's strawboard, assuming I can't afford a resin fixing kit (70-odd quid :shock: )? It's to put a small radiator back on the wall it came off before decorating. The rawlplugs used by the original fitters have (predictably) fallen out...

A quick search tells me this topic this has been done a thousand times, but I can't find a specific answer to my question, so here goes... 4 x 50W GU10 mains halogens (brand new light fitting) on a cheap Marbo dimmer... dimmer buzzes like hell unless lights on full. Fair enough, cheap...

Got two tins of this stuff to do interior woodwork and doors. Our hallway gets almost zero daylight, and the missus likes to crank the heating, so I wanted something non-yellowing. Thing is it's like feckin cheese. It'll keep a wet edge but only if you're painting a line 2" wide. I got...

Hi folks, Having a bit of a crisis of confidence with a mirror wall. Never worked with huge sheet glass before and I'm starting to think I might've bitten off more than I can chew. I wonder if anyone in the know can tell me it'll (probably) be alright, or if not point me in the right...