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I have installed 2 300mm base units with an integrated cooker suspended between then and a gas hob above to form a cooker island with an island hob over. It looks great but it is like a wobbly table. I have checked all the feet etc and i am under the impression it is just not rigid enough. i...

I am going to tile my kitchen and dinner this weekend. its 25m sq in total and I have 600 x 600 slate floor tiles to go down onto a concrete floor. I am trying to estimate how much adhesive and grout to buy bearing in mind that I am putting in electric underfloor heating in the form of a...

I won an ipod touch today 8gb 3rd gen, but i already have the 16gb version so i want to sell it. Anyone know where i can get a quick sale. I cant be bothered with ebay due to all the fees plus paypal fees. They go for about £140-£160 online. Would want to get £120ish for it really, its...

I have built a small extension and now have to fit an external stable type door. The opening size (brick to brick, and lintel to slab) is: 915 x 2100mm Therefore can someone please tell me what size door and frame i should go and buy to avoid to much planeing etc? I will also need a...

Hi I need to raise the existing floor in my kitchen \ dinner approx 60mm from the existing concrete floor. I have a cable underfloor heating kit and I wil be putting down 8-10mm thick slate floor tiles over the cables. Therefore i probably need to lay a 45 - 50mm screed? The last one...

I installed a sharp sand cement screed to an uneven floor in my lounge in the summer about 50mm thick but there are a few un-even parts (still bettewr than it was though). I basically poured the mix from a wheel barrow onto the existing floor and smoothed it with a steel plasters trowel, but...

I have noticed a small damp patch about the size of 50p coin in the ceiling above my bathroom. The ceiling is only 12 months old (9mm plasterboard with skim) and the pitched roof above has no felt its just tiles on battens with lime mortar 'buttered on the back of the tiles'. I assume this...

is there such a thing as an integrate gas cooker? Struggling to find any online.

does anyone one know of any genuine kitchen sales that are on or coming up? All of the B & Q, Wickes, Homebase etc sales are all farces in my opinion. They offer for sale units at inflated prices for 28 days then say they are on offer for the rest of the time they are on sale. How can...

Hi Can anyone recomend a decent supplier who will deliver to site RSJ's on the wirral or chester area? they are only smallish ones that i need, 2.5m long and about 254 x 146 x 37kg. Thanks!

i have got a 1 year old ectec pro 24 and the timer clock on it runs slow, by approx 2 hours per day, and when i listen to it tic the seconds seem to last too long. Is there any way to sort this out so the clock runs a the correct speed? Its really annoying becasue everyday i have to...

Hi all, hope this is the right area to post this. How should i go about altering my front door to accomodate a relativly deep pile carpet to the lounge? The distance between the bottom of the door and floor structure is about 10mm and the carpet plus underlay will be about 20mm. is there...

does anyone know if those hollow doors you get that are white when you buy them suitable to be glossed or do they need an undercoat like any other wood, the reason i ask is because the white finish looks like undercoat to me.

I though this may be an interesting topic for people to think about and i have not seen much on the web about it. Here go's: Instead of having a chemically injected DPC and installing a DPM to the ground floor of my old house (built 1910ish) I decided to strip off all the lime render...

Not sure this is the right board, but here goes. Does anyone know how to fit/fix cement board to internal masonry to fit in and around existing 12.5mm plaster board? The reason i ask is that i want to replace the gypsum board around my solid fuel stove in my lounge. (have just had the...

Hi all, First time poster long time reader on the forum! I have formed a concrete hearth in my lounge for a fire place and have bought some natural oyster slate floor tiles to tile the hearth with. I hav also bought a small 5kw multi stove and had a flue liner installed. My question is...