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Hi there I'm trying to get a nice eggshell finish on some new doors and facings, doors are hardwood (louis style) and were pre-treated with white undercoat, facing (architraves?) are pine and were also pre-treated with white undercoat. According to the tin, you only need one (max two)...

About 14 months ago I had a rebated double door installed on the entrance to my lounge off my hallway by a local (Glasgow) door and window company. I noticed over the weekend that on both doors (they are "Louis style" with 6 panes of glass in the upper part) that the centre strip which runs...

Hi I am trying to figure out how to get a lacquer finish on some sapele skirting that I have just purchased from a saw mill. I have stained the skirting with 2 coats of colron red mahogany wood stain. What I'm struggling to figure out is which product to use (and how to apply) in order to get...

cooker is on its own circuit with a single socket outlet in the kitchen but this circuit is on the "lower" half of the consumer unit which is RCD protected. I can certainly run a 13A extension from one of the upstairs sockets for testing the dishwasher but clearly this won't work long term...

Excellent idea, will try tonight... i'm reasonably new to this, the RCD only protects the sockets downstairs (which includes the kitchen). The upstairs sockets and both floors' lighting however seem to be excluded from RCD. Unfortunately this design rules out switching the dishwasher (or...

Hi there I "believe" that my Baumatic dishwasher is causing the RCD on my consumer unit to trip very occasionally. The first time the RCD tripped in the house was about a year a go (although in that incident I don't remember whether the dishwasher was running or not). Since then it has...