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We are about to move (if the flippin' solicitors ever get their act together) to a new house. It has a decent, relatively recent, sectional concrete garage which we want to use as a workshop/utility space. Unfortunately it was built with an up-and-over door only with no side door. From what...

I am planning to convert a large landing into an extra bedroom. Basically, aside from things needed to comply with building regs (new window etc), this will consist simply of a stud partition between two side walls (with a door casing incorporated, of course). I am intending to construct this...

I know I'm a couple of months late here and you might have already resolved the issue, but couldn't you simply divert the path around the base of the steps - simply making the path wider at that point. This might not agree 100% with the position of the path as indicated in your deeds, but it...

We are presently house hunting and one of the properties we are interested in is a semi-detached which shares access to the front of the house (footpath only) with the adjoining property – i.e. a single path skirts the front walls of each property and divides each house from its front garden. As...

Thanks Kev. I had read your reply and it pretty much answered my question. Much appreciated.

Are you talking about the sort of epoxy putty with the core of hardner which you knead to activate? If so, then I've used them quite a few times and I've found them useful, the "plastic steel" reinforced kind in particular. I do not find that they work well under water in anything other than...

Sorry Kev, I wasn't criticising your comments. My reply was a general one. I genuinely would like to know where the line is drawn between actually working on gas installations and doing work which may affect visibility of pipework etc - for example if I put in a new kitchen unit which hides...

Maybe we need a bit of clarification regarding what constitutes gas work. I'm not talking about re-routing a pipe or burying it in the wall. In fact, no part of either the pipe or its bracketing will be touched in any way.

Surely someone could give me a quick answer to this. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

We are currently looking at buying a property. There is one thing I have noticed (we are nowhere near the survey stage yet). The gas pipe enters the house at floor level just beside the front door, then is immediately routed around the frame of the new door leading from the hallway to a side...

Cheers guys. Much appreciated. Will look for a small radius cutter and have a go with that. I would prefer the look of an edge with a slight flat in the centre anyhow.

I've had a bit of a practice on a scrap piece of MDF to get the initial cut right and have done OK so far but I've since buggered it up doing something else so couldn't try the second cut. I've seen several US sites selling "profiled" bearings which are designed to run against a non-flat...

I'm just about to embark on my first proper project since acquiring a router. I want to rout curved edges on a long length of 18mm MDF (to give a D shaped edge). I assume that a "standard" rounding-over cutter can be used, but I'm not sure about something: Once the first edge has been...

When I had the house rewired a couple of years ago, sparks put me in a dedicated circuit for integral garage/workshop. This is a radial featuring 2 twin sockets on a 10A MCB. Don't know why he used a 10A breaker. Cable is 2.5mm TE, surface mounted (just pre-17th edition!) Anyway, most...

Thanks for your helpful responses guys. The bed will be too high to place a standard switch above it as it is enclosed to within a foot of the ceiling, so I think either a pull switch or an architrave switch will be the way to go. Does a pull switch need to be mounted where it can't be...

I wouldn't use it (or wear PVC gloves :wink: ). It might be that insulation is breaking down somewhere and the earthing is poor, especially if it involves two separately wired appliances. Have you looked in the connection box/boxes/sockets? It might be only a matter of time before the failure...

Will try and cobble together a rough diagram to show my ideas. Pull switch would certainly be the easiest option by far and I might end up doing that way. Just don't think it's that elegant.

I am about to embark on the conversion of my landing into a small 4th bedroom (8' x 6'). This will contain a built-in, enclosed, cabin bed which will make the existing light switch difficult to access. Wiring a new switch is no problem as loft access is easy and the new cable can be brought down...

Cheers guys.

I'm currently decorating my kitchen but I have a bit of a problem fixing things to the walls. I am struggling to find the right fixings to use. It would appear that rather thick blobs of adhesive were used to attach the plasterboard to the brick which has left a gap of up to half an inch in...