Search results

Hi all, I have a TV mount which I want to mount on the wall, but I want it slightly further from the wall so it goes into the room a little bit more, so I want to put some wood on the wall and attach the mount to it. The screws to hold the mount need to go 55mm deep, so the wood needs to...

Hi, I want to fit an Ikea Besta cupboard to the wall in a corner of a room. I want it on the wall and not the floor as the fit is quite tight and the extra width of the skirting would make it stick out just that bit too much. Its a big one, 2m * 40cm * 60cm. One wall is external...

Hi all, I am a bit confused with the differences between filler and caulk. I have painted my skirting and now want to use some filler to fill the gap between the wall and the skirting. In the other rooms I have used the filler below, which worked well in most rooms but in one it has...

Hi, I am fitting engineered wooden floors in my flat. The three bedrooms have 10mm wood and the hallway and sitting room have 15mm. The kitchen is lino and the bathroom tiles. For the gap between the sitting room and hallway I am planning on using a flat strip. This will mean I need...

Hello all, I am trying to add a second phone point from my Virgin Media master socket. On the back of the master socket it has be numbers 1-6, but there are only 4 connectors. Thinking they would be in fact 2 -5 I wired up the second one as such. However it doesn't work at all. I...

Hi all, This may seem a pretty silly question, but... I am going to buy 23 pieces of 2440mm * 1220mm * 12mm plywood to put on our floorboards before putting wooden floors down. I have decided on 12mm rather than 6mm or 9mm because of the extra thickness will help even out the floorboards...

Hi all, I want to lay a wooden floor in the back bedroom. After taking up the carpet I noticed a concrete rectangle about 143cm * 63cm in one corner against a chimney breast. My plumber says this was probably a fireplace at one point. The problem is that it isn't level and slopes up...

Hello all, For some time my partner has been wanting to have wooden floors instead of carpet. I finally agreed when our 7 month old vomited on the carpet... Anyway, Wickes have an offer on Solid Wood Flooring Oak at the moment so I thought now is the time to buy. From my research so far...

Hello all, We moved into our first floor flat Sep 2008 and noticed the master bedroom's carpet was raised by around an inch and horrid - so we binned it . After removing the carpet and underlay we noticed that there was plywood with what looks like plasterboard underneath. This was put...

Hello, In the back bedroom we have a built in airing which used to have the boiler and water tank in. This was removed last year and a new combi put in the loft. The walls of the cupboard were coated with shiny foil like rubber like material presumably to reflect heat back from the boiler...

Hi all, Hope someone can offer me some advice. We had a B&Q laminate worktop fitted in Feb. Unfortunately the fitter didn't have any colourfill at the time and used glue in the joints. After it was fitted we got some colourfill and put this over the joints. Unfortunately around two...

Hi all, We are doing up the kitchen and we would like to have under cabinet lights. To me it seems there are two ways of doing this, ones with go from the lighting circuit and those that plug into sockets. The later seem to an easier option in some respects. Am I able to spur a socket...