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Hi everyone, I am in the process of turning our old dining room into a chillout/music room for myself...And I have come across a problem, the floor was very uneven concrete , with lines of damp at even distances across the whole floor. After a few taps with the hammer it appears as though it has...

Hello again, i recently bought some pre laquered oak veneer doors from wickes ( and very nice they are too )...Problem is i have had to shave some wood from the hinge side, so my question is....what do i put on the bare wood to protect it and make it look the same as the door...The door is sort...

Hi i am in the process of changing all my upstairs door frames and doors after putting up with them being out of plumb and square for 30 years...I have fitted new softwood 30 x 78 inch frames plumb and checked square , and now i want to hang my new oak veneer doors. The doors are pre finished...

Hi again, i am thinking of replacing my existing upstairs pine doors with oak, also replacing the door frames...What are the pros and cons of solid oak and oak veneer doors.....Cheers....Bill

Hello again,,Back in the summer i replaced my old Vaillant with a Potterton Heatmax 28HE, and got the engineer to connect my Salus RT500 wired programmer...It works brilliantly, however due to changing rooms around we need to move the programmer to a different room, and due to it being...

One of the jobs we need to do on my sons house before the winter is to stop the rain getting in the flat roof on his dormer bedroom window...At the moment it's felted, which has been on for years and is split ...We intend to remove the whole roof ( It's only small at approx 2M X2M ) make good...

My son and i are about to embark on a couple of largish tiling jobs, His kitchen floor approx 25 square Metres and my bathroom approx 20 square Metres, using 400x600mm tiles in the batroom and 300x600mm tiles on his floor. So we were wondering if its worth investing in a tile saw and if so which...

Hi as some of you may know , i am currently helping my son renovate his Victorian dormer terraced house...Last year we laid a new concrete floor in the sitting room ..(all insulated etc )..A couple of my mates helped, and while i'm very grateful, i'm less than happy with the finish..It has some...

I am just about to brick an outside doorway up in my sons house..It is a circa 1870's end terrace, consequently it has not got a conventional concrete foundation...We have dug the old doorstep out today and removed the layers of bricks and soft lime mortar that made the foundation ,if you can...

I've put this post in here as i'm not sure it fits into any other category....As you may or may not be aware from my tiling post , i am redoing my bathroom, and one thing i was thinking of doing is cladding the ceiling with uPVC..What are peoples thoughts on this ? The ceiling is currently...

A thousand apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but i DID search first and couldn't find the answer. :roll: ...i'm about to refurb my bathroom, floor to ceiling tiles approx 60cm x 40cm..It is already tiled so my first problem is likely to be how much damage i do to the existing...

Hi , after 10 years our bathroom is in need of a refurb...So i have a couple of questions....Are the plastic panels that go in before a shower cubicle any good..? The reason i ask is that after about 8 years the tile grout cracked allowing water through to the plasterboard...( should have been...

Hi Guys i was wondering if anyone can suggest a fix for my problem...My lean to conservatory is approx 5.5 Mtrs long x 3 Mtrs wide..using 25mm polycarbonate..Due to thermal expanson/contraction, it makes a terrible noise...Short of removing the roof and lubing with Vaseline , is there any way of...

Hi can anyone tell me if its ok to tile, with quarry tiles, inside the opening where i am putting a log burning stove...I understand it will get very hot, so will they be able to cope...? Also what adhesive should i use?...Bill

What sort of lintel should i use above a window in a house with 9 inch solid brick walls ?....At the moment its a piece of wood on the inside course (above window frame ) and a brick arch on the outside.. I want to put a bigger window in so the arch will be no good........Bill

When skimming on top of new plasterboard, ive seen plasterers doing it in two thin layers...Why ?...What will the effect be of just putting one layer on , as long as its flat ?....Bill

Hi i have bought one of these DIY damp meters, and was wondering what readings (in % ) i should be aiming for on a 9 inch solid brick wall of my sons victorian terraced house...At the moment it is going off the scale as there is no DPC.....We intend to inject a chemical DPC, but don't know what...

My son has just bought a late victorian 2 bed end terraced dormer bungalow..The floor board floor in the front room was replaced approx 5 years ago, with another floorboard floor. The first wood one had rotted. As far as we can gather originally the floor would have been flagstone and later...

Hi the problem i have is when the sun shines on my patio door the surround moves on the glass resulting in the door catching on the other closed door....In order to rectify this i have to bear hug the frame to push it back onto the glass.....My question is, how can i stop this from...

Hi i wonder if anyone can shed any light on this problem (so i know what i'm talking about before i get an engineer to sort it.)..When i run the hot tap with the central heating turned off...the radiators start to warm up, and the hot water is tepid....the boiler fires up as normal..The...