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I'm going to get the ceiling of my part-integral garage renewed by getting rid of the old plasterboard and putting new plasterboard up. However, i'd like to take the opportunity to insulate the ceiling void which meets my bathroom floor above. A builder has suggested using Celotex in the...

I've had a beautiful solid oak floor reducer ramp machined for me. It's a wide one at 3m to go across my patio doors. This area has a lot of foot traffic so I want to protect this ramp without changing its colour or making it look shiny - basically I still want it to look like natural wood...

I have a part-integral single garage with a bathroom above it. The house is fully decorated now so I want to finish off the garage. A new bathroom was installed so the garage ceiling has several small and large holes in the double-layer plasterboard. This is due to old bathroom water and waste...

I want to seal and insulate the tiny gaps around my garage door frame from the inside. I have a standard single-width up-and-over metal garage door. I noticed that the frame has been bolted into the brickwork and the tiny gaps haven't been sealed. What's the best way to ensure a good airtight...

I've got a ceiling light in my kitchen which is a S-shaped chrome bar with four spotlights on it. Each spotlight houses a GU10 bulb. The lights are adjustable in terms of where they point to. One bulb never lights, the other three work fine. Any ideas on what the problem could be? I've tried...

I have a multitude of pipework in my part-intergal garage. Firstly, I have the new water mains feed terminating inside the garage. It is lagged and then this supplies water to the boiler and the rest of the house. There is a fair amount of pipework along three walls of the garage. I have...

I've now had my house fully refurbished which includes full loft insulation and new double glazing and new doors. My underlay for the wood flooring downstairs is amongst the best you can get for soundproofing and so is the underlay for my carpet upstairs. My property is a 3-bed semi. My...

I have a WB 30CDi boiler installed. Does it have automatic frost protection? It's installed in an unheated garage and I was assured by the installers that there will be no issues with the water freezing or the boiler malfunctioning if the temperature in the garage got close to freezing or below...

Should my central heating be left on all the time (but at reduced thermostat temperatures for parts of the day and night) or should it just be switched on twice a day (morning and evening) and remain switched off completely at all other times? I keep hearing conflicting arguments on this...

I've been getting a new driveway installed for the last two weeks. The job is nearly complete and needs another 1-2 days. However, the company installing the driveway keep trying to cut corners and claim not to recall discussions about the shape of flowerbeds, heights of walls, etc. They seem...

What type of stone should be used on a soakaway for a driveway? My driveway installers have excavated a 1m wide by 1m deep hole, 5m from the front of my property. The overall size of the driveway is about 100 square metres. Two separate drain pipes from the Aco channels will send rainwater to...

I've had a Vent-Axis bathroom extractor fan fitted a few months ago as part of my bathroom refit. There are no issues with the quality of the work. However, with the chillier nights now my bathroom is very cold in the mornings. The fan has no back-draught shutters so you can pretty much see...

I have a small, single part-integral garage and the plasterboard on the ceiling is crumbling away. I need the plasterboard pulled down and new plasterboard attached (or just overboarded if that's a possibility). Which type of tradesman do I need to do this. I'm not too bothered about having...

I've got a gap of around 6mm between a kitchen worktop edge and the wall. What's the best way to fill this gap? I'm looking for a simple method that leaves a nice finish.

Worcester Bosch came out to check for a leak on my newly-installed WB 30CDi boiler recently. The boiler was fine and the leak was eventually found to be in an elbow joint under the living room floor. However, the WB engineer did a thorough test of the WB 30CDi boiler and this included...

I need to add inhibitor to my CH system as there's been a leak in it for over three months. Is it okay to add inhibitor by unscrewing the Magnaclean, taking out the excess water and filling it with inhibitor? This approach would be far easier and less messy than adding it through a rad. Also...

A leak in the pipework installed by the CH installers from hell that has been dripping for over 3 months has finally been located and rectified. However, the CH installers from hell refuse to add any inhibitor to the system even though i've lost gallons of water over the months and had to...

My WB 30CDi combi boiler is losing around 0.5 bar of pressure daily. However, when I bleed the rads, there is no air in the system. What could be causing this? I have the 5-year WB guarantee so i'm hoping it's simply a boiler-related issue and not related to the pipework or rads.

What should I look for when it comes to bamboo flooring? From what I can gather, strand-woven is a much tougher type of bamboo flooring. Is this the one to get? What about 'horizontal' and 'vertical' bamboo flooring? I guess i'm just looking for advice on which would be best on a tight budget.

I've got a decorative faceplate on a double-socket but i'm having some trouble securing the faceplate to the metal box. The screws don't seem to hold properly - they move relaitively freely in and out of the fixing holes. I'd want to avoid replacing the metal box so was wondering how I can...