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hi, I need to repair a section in my plasterboard, i have cut out the section to make it square and ready for the new piece of plasterboard. I’m just wondering if it’s ok to just dot and dab it to the wall behind? There isn’t enough room to get any batten in to secure the new board to. Hope...

hi i have noticed there are two wires that are fed from the top of an rcbo then and go behind the bus bar and come out the bottom of the consumer unit. Is it safe to have the wires run behind the bus bar? thanks in advance

hi, looking for some advice please, i have found that my door bell is wired to the downstairs lighting ring and it causes the rcb to hum/buzz and when i disconnect the live wire for the door bell transformer it stops. So can i just install a new door bell transformer to fix the problem? cheers...

evening all, I'm after some advice please, I have removed some plastic claddings from around my bedroom window and to be honest I was greeted with a lovely mess!! my question is what to do in preparation for the Plasterer as I would like the plaster right to the window for a nice neat job!! I...

Evening all, I'm after abit of advice if I may, the problem is i seem to have a hot and cold water feed running from my kitchen up to the bathroom above, these have been chased into the wall by the previous owner as I didn't know they we're there until I noticed what resembled a damp line on...

hi all I am having a new kitchen fitted and on having the old one removed we have found an old door way bodged up and some very unattractive heating pipes so i have decided to build a stud wall to cover all these. This has caused a problem as the original wall is know where near level and...

Im hoping someone can shed some light and this is posted in the right place. In my kitchen i have one vent brick (if the correct name for it) near the ceiling and one just above the floorboards, from what i have found out these were used to vent the boiler that used to be in this corner of my...

Hi all, I would like some advice if i could. I had my hall, stairs and landing plastered about 2 weeks ago and at the weekend i decided to give it the mist coat as plaster was dry, i used crown matt emulsion magnolia and mixed it till it was to single to double cream consitency and applied to...