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Doing some alterations on our kitchen. Kitchen was fitted some 8 years ago by "qualified"fitters. Every socket has been wired like this What do you experts think?

Relayind a concrete floor 6.6m x 5.1 m. 25mm blinding, 75mm kingspan and dpm to be installed. Is 100mm enough for the finished floor slab and will i need an expansion joint?

Van went in for warranty repair last tuesday, Nissan primastar, clutch slave cylinder blown seals. I asked for a courtesy van but nothing available, so ive had to hire a van since last wednesday costing £250 p.week. Phoned again today to see if mine is ready, still not fixed waiting for parts...

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I have a brick built workshop at the rear of my house which has a 4mm t/e cable feeding the electrics from the consumer unit in my house. the 4mm cable has a run of about 10metres and is protected by a 30 amp wired fuse. In the workshop there are 2 65w fluorescent lights and 1 double socket...

I have a brick built storage shed /worhshop. It is built back to earth so is never really 100 percent dry. It is rendered out inside and needs a lick of paint to brighten the walls up. What is the best paint to use given that 3 of the walls are full height back to earth and are always slightly damp?

what is the best way to plasterboard the underside of a u/b.? can i dot and dab it. Opening is 2.4 metres wide.

Just had a sketch of a structural engineer showing a u/beam bolted to the padstones with 4 m10 bolts at either end. Anyone come across this before? The wall is single skin so the padstone is only 120mm wide, dont fancy drilling 4 holes in each one.

i've got a small pitched roof to construct in place of the existing flat roof on the rear of a property. The problem is that the house is of "no fines" construction, so impossible to drill a hole to get fixings for the wallplates. The only solution i can think of is to drill right through the...

Time for a new van so ive got a shortlist of three vans im looking at:- 1. Brand new pre registered 56 Toyota hiace swb 95 bhp. 2. Used Nissan Primastar swb 56 reg 2300 miles 100bhp. 3. Used V.W. Transporter T5 T30 swb 05 reg 14000 miles 104bhp. All have similar load carrying...

Painted the skirtings and arkis in the bedroom 6 months ago with Johnstones brilliant white eggshell lustre mid sheen. Ive just been to touch a scratch up and can now see that the colour has deteriorated to a yellowy/cream colour. Ive e-mailed them expressing my dissatisfaction at their product...

Is it ok to paint over vinyl silk with matt emulsion? Is there any surface prep needed? Any probs i might encounter? Thankyou.

im rebuilding part of a retaining wall that has collapsed. The wall is 2.5 metres high and is holding back a garden area from a road. what sort of width should i be starting the wall at the base for a wall of this height? Is there a rule of thumb like the base should be 1/4 of the height or...

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Today whilst we were fitting a large stone hearth in a friends house we managed to drop a couple of small blobs of mortar on his new oak floor. Despite cleaning it up almost immediately it has stained the floor. The floor was laid 4 weeks ago and has had 1 coat of hard waxoil and is awaiting...

My printers packed in so its time for a new one. Looking for one that scans and copys as well.Any recommendations please, cost about £100. Thanks

This morning my Boxer van wouldn't start because it couldn't read the key code, it has done this before but has always eventually started.I tried the spare and had the same problem. Is this a main dealer job or is there something i can do myself to fix it?

Just wondering how much it costs to hire a skip in different parts of the country. Here in west yorkshire i pay £120 for a nine ton skip or £88 for a four ton midi skip.Whats it cost in your area?

just changed both ink cartridges in my h.p.deskjet3820 and all im getting is red printing. Ive set the printer to print only black but still it comes out red.Running windows xp home edition.Any ideas anyone?

hello all. we have a vertical rockery/retaining wall outside our kitchen window and about 1 meter away from it. this is about 1.5 metres high, then a small plateau then it rises again for another 1.5 meters.what plants would be suitable to grow in the soil between the rocks to give us some...