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Hi all replacing flooring in bedroom (4x4m with wood floorboards). Going to use treadaire dreamwalk 11mm with standard thickness carpet. When I removed the old carpet there was a double layer of gripper rods which I had to take up to remove floorboards / walls etc. Just wondering if I need...

Has anyone use the website decoratorsdepot dotcom? I've orderd from them, but their phone now doesn't pick up and the response I got on email just fobbed me off for a few days. I'm begining to think they're a bogus site - anyone had experience with them?

Hi - hope someone can help - I have a couple of questions. I'm renovating a bedroom with walls made of thermalite blocks covered with approx 10mm cement render and skin of plaster. in several areas theres been some loosening of the render which I've removed leaving a few holes down to the...

Hi New house and a couple of radiators downstairs are not working properly. Evreything else fine. Feed pipe very hot, return cold, but radiator only marginally warm at the top. They are bled and valves are (or should be) fully open. Wiggled TRV pin (to the point of pulling the thing out -...

Hi. I'm trying to recondition my CH a little. Just moved into new house and needs inhibitor etc as hasn't been put in for years as far as I can tell. I was going to put some sentinel x400 in first via a dedicated radiator point. My question is when I come to remove the x400, can I just put a...

Hi Having a room decorated before new wood floor fitted. Am removing skirting so the floor slides under. However the guys who built the house only saw fit to plaster to the skirting - there is block behind the removed skirting. There is no plaster there, so there is a step in wall level down...

not strictly a DIY question I know, but help would be appreciated anyway. I need to redecorate / renovate a room which would involve removing a dado rail, old (not really old - 20yrs) plaster coving and a decorative plaster rail on the ceiling. Thereafter making good walls and ceiling. Do I...

Hi Recently moved into new house which has standard boiler (potterton hetaheat) for hot water / heat. There is no room stat and I'd like to have one. This would need to be wireless (pref honeywell CM927) - would then leave heating control to permanently on and control heating via stat. How...

Hi Have potterton netaheat standard boiler and have bought honeywell CM927 wireless room stat. Need to connect control unit to boiler, unsure about terminals. Boiler has 3 terminals on wiring diagram. to which 2 terminas should the control unit (stat) be connected? Thanks Shaun

Hi. Just move house and need to remove some 'orribe coving. Ih has a slightly 'extended' decorative bit down the wall and wouls have been put up circa 1990. How easy is it likely to be to remove, and am I going to end up needing to replaster? What's the best way to remove it? Thanks Shaun

Hi I have 2 jobs and am not sure which to do 1st. I'm laying wood floor (engineered oak) in living room (DIY) and having a new wood burner and slate hearth installed (professionally). I'd like the floor to run seamlessley under the hearth. Do I lay the floor 1st and allow a gap for the hearth...

Hi, hope you can help I'm about to move house and the place I'm moving to has a standard boiler / hot water tank setup but doesn't have a room thermostat. I'd like to have one. I know wireless systems can be installed on combi boilers, but what about standard boilers? The domestic energy...