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Hi all, Hope someone can answer a quick question for me. Am I right in thinking that an UFH manifold assembly and pump assembly are typically 210mm centres? So a measurement taken from the centre of the feed fitting to the centre of the return fitting should be 210mm? I've just had a Reliant...

Hi there, Am I being unreasonable in thinking this is not acceptable? New front door has been fitted today, and it looks about 1.5 - 2cm away from centre. :( The same people are here tomorrow to replace our two front bay windows, and I'm starting to worry they'll bodge the whole thing. What's...

Hi all, Hope someone can offer me some advice, I feel like I must've done something wrong but struggling to work it out! Bare plaster wall, that's had previous coat of paint scraped off (badly, but it's off). Because there're a few nicks from the scraper, I've filled these in using this...

Evening all, Hopefully this is the right place for this, and someone can give us some thoughts on this one - we're in a pretty modest 1930s semi detached, we've knocked through the teeny-tiny galley kitchen and dining room at the back of the house, but we're still left with what feels like a...

Hi all, I read once many moons ago that you aren't supposed to use board adhesive right up to the edge of the board, this means that where two boards meet there isn't any adhesive across the joint. Just curious what the reason for this is? I assume (wrongly it seems) that compound across...

Hi all, I've got a mid-1930s semi with a back door and, around 1 meter next to it, a 2 meter sliding patio door. Originally these doors were in separate rooms which have since been knocked together, so we'd now like to replace the door with a window, so that we can place our kitchen sink...

Hi all, As you may have seen in my other thread, I'm looking at doing something with wood tiles, and have just seen the exact finish I want - it's a very (VERY) light finish, but still shows a grain. Anyone got any idea what wood this is (the grain looks like oak to me?), and how it's...

Hi all, I want to make something like this to use as a cabinet door covering: Would this be something a beginner could achieve? I'm thinking I'd: Buy some planks of wood the same thickness Trim a couple down to get a variety of widths Chop the planks into bits of varying length...

Hi all, A rare one this - I can find loads of people wanting to get rid of chimney breasts, but I need to make mine bigger! I'm fitting a wood burner and would like to make the chimney breast deeper so that (a) I can install fitted cupboards either side, and (b) the hearth doesn't stick...

Hi all, Would really appreciate some help with some oak veneer doors I'm busy fitting - for some reason the panels are loose and slide around! Is there a 'standard' procedure to fix this? Never come across this before, and the doors rattle like hell when they're closed. Many thanks in...

Hi all, Can anyone enlighten me the difference between Danish oil and Finishing oil? So far I've done two oak doors and two rooms of oak skirting off of Liberon finishing oil, I've just as an experiment tried a third door with Danish oil and at first glance can't see a difference! Also, is...

Hi all, I'm in the process of renovating my home (mid 30s semi detached), and am looking at installing underfloor heating downstairs. We've got a suspended timber floor, currently with foam insulation fitted between the joists directly under the floorboards, so I'm after something like the...

Hi all, Can anyone advise if it's possible to: a) Replace the seals around a double glazed window between the glass and the frame b) Are these seals available in colours other than black? The windows are pretty old - they're a solid timber frame, with white plastic for the movable...

Hi all, I've recently (two months back) had some oak skirting delivered from a timber merchants, I've only just got round to fitting it due to health issues, and found out that one of the 4 meter lengths is just plain ugly. It's got no clear grain pattern, and has loads of really dark almost...

Hi all, I'm trying to fit some solid oak skirting using a screw digger and plug cutter - I've been able to cut the holes and screw the boards to the wall. The trouble is, when I did a test piece I fitted a plug and when I applied finishing oil (Colron) over the top of it I got a black ring...

Hi all, Does anyone here have any experience using Komar wall murals? We're thinking of using the below mural in a guest room, picking out the sky blue and the pinish grey as colours to use elsewhere in the room...

Hi all, Can anyone advise whether the wall highlighted in red below (above a stairwell) is normally holding up the ceiling above? We're in a fairly standard 1930s semi. The wall highlighted in red is showing some pretty serious cracks, and we'd like to if possible remove and replace...

Hi all, I've just hired myself a sliding mitre saw for the weekend from HSS, and the thing's bloody knackered - the blade guard doesn't open properly, the sliding mechanism is stiff as anything, and the blade's blunt as anything - burning the hell out of the skirting boards I'm cutting...

Hi all, I'm about to embark on a 9 day diy-extravaganza, involving demolishing walls, boarding up and moving doors, etc. :S One job that's currently got me concerned (because I've never done it before) is blocking up an archway. This is a supporting wall, and the bricks in the wall are...

Hi all, Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I hope so! We had some damproofing work done back in early 2009, which involved removing plaster from a bunch of walls, drilling, injecting stuff and replastering. Apart from the fact that replastering was straight as a...