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I've recently plastered my extension and the finish was absolutely ****e! One of the ceiling areas was over 30m² and I did it in 5 separate hits. When I say ****e - I can get it on, I can flatten it with a big speedskim and I can go over it with a plaziflex; what I can't seem to do is the last...

I put mine in by myself. The smallest ones just on the rungs of a ladder. The big ones I built a small tower of scaffold and hoisted them up with my block and tackle. The big grey one was over 300kg. The hardest one was this one, I literally rolled it through that little hole in the wall...

20 years ago, when the local crackhead broke into my Fiesta to have a root through the glovebox and pinch my polo mints he used to smash the rear quarter light - it was either a £10 scrapyard replacement and an hour to fit it or a £50 excess. These days he has a magic door opening device so it...

Why does it need to come back up? Is your external ground level too low? You should do it in 4" soil pipe. I have two x 5m runs, not for an extractor but because I have a gas tumble dryer - one is an air supply and one the exhaust. They go down and straight out. You could easily lower the...

Those prices are horrendous - have you considered some steel?

Yes. The next problem - I can't tell if it's Satin chrome or brushed steel!, and I can't find anywhere local that stocks it so will have to order online. It looks like Toolstation sell some of the Click Deco stuff in satin chrome so I'll pick up something from there to compare.

Fantastic! Got my phone on macro setting now.

You're being fleeced. There's something called "extras" in the trade - any deviation from the agreed work is charged at 10 times the rate. Just treat as a separate job and get quotes. A lot of people just convert to insulated solid floors these days.

I can't quite work out whether that's a joke or not!!

Thanks. It does look extremely similar to scolmore but there's no branding on it - I wonder if it's a copy/made under license type thing. Only part number is sw31022.3 Looks like they sell a double width switch that certainly looks like a swap.

Trying to use what I've got. With hindsight I should have got two switches and one of these-

Thanks. Hopefully the picture of the switch in question will supplement my poor terminology. No additional lights needed. I want the second left switch to operate the same light as the first left so it doesn't matter which you press - just because it'll annoy me if it does nothing. I suppose...

I've got a 4 gang switch but only 3 circuits (I couldn't find a double 3 gang that came close to matching all the others. Is it possible to link 2 switches so that at least all 4 switches do something? I suspect not? Al circuits are 2 way switched if it matters. Otherwise - leave one doing...

Drunk students asleep in our treehouse.

I found the hearth regs a bit confusing. I would trim and support the joists off some blockwork, shutter it up and cast a 100mm (ish - depending on decorative hearth thickness) constructional concrete hearth finishing at your chosen height. According to my MI's it's 125mm constructional...

For what it's worth, having had one of those boilers, is that once the plastic starts leaking it's on its way out - mine started with the flow turbine, then the left block, then the right block then another two bits that I can't remember until finally after yet another leak my guy struggled to...

You (or a competent builder) should be able to identify what has moved in relation to what with a long spirit level - across the window above the crack and below the window to the left and right (as there are slight signs that the cracking continues diagonally below the window). Don't worry if...

Personally, I'd foam on some 100mm PIR bonded plasterboard. It will do the lot, including closing off the cavity.

If the house is otherwise reasonable condition and that is obviously letting it down I'd repair it. You can usually determine areas where it's failed by knocking on it (like a door). It will sound solid or hollow. If you can manage this and it's not a large area it will be patchable either by...

Unless you're a dab hand at brickwork? I'd focus on preserving the outside - there's usually a way to bodge something workable from inside.