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Is it possible to repair this plasterboard hole and then reattach a bracket for a curtain pole? It’s in the middle of bifold doors, so the bracket really does need to go back exactly here. There’s only a small gap between the plasterboard and the brick, so it’ll be impossible to slip a bit of...

Any words of wisdom or pitfalls to avoid? I plan to run two sink units from an under sink water heater, with sensor taps. It's a commercial property with (obviously) no hot water. There's actually four sinks, but in "pairs" in that two are on either side of one wall (kitchen and WC) and the...

What is this grey film stuck on my windows, and can I pull it off? This is a commercial property I’m planning to take on. It`d look much nicer if it was gone! I do wonder if it is an anti-condensation thing, as it’s a single glazed shopfront.

I rent a room in a business. One of the two fluorescent lights doesn't have a bulb. Are they called bulbs??? Anyway. I'm at work doing a bit of DIY and figure I'll just stick in a new tube. Hmmm, doesn't work. A quick google (I know NOTHING about these lights) tells me that the starter might...

Hi! I'm hoping that someone has a simple fix for re-attaching a cabinet door :) I need to attach this to this possibly using these There were also some red plugs around the screws, but they've broken. The kitchen has actually been altered since it was first put...

Hi, I'd love some advice on bathroom fans :) We're having our bathrooms redone. A big complaint we have with our current (wall mounted) bathroom fans is the noisy shutters outside (is that what they're called?). When the wind blows they rattle. It's noisy enough to keep us awake, even with...

Or will I burn the house down? :oops: Our house is about 20 years old (Bovis estate) and I assume our doorbell is the same age. The actual doorbell push on the front door is missing, so we want to remove the door chime from the hallway. The door chime contains batteries and has some...

Here's hoping this is an easy question! The last job in the latest project is to fill the gap between the wall and the windows (uPVC). I removed most of the sealant when I removed the wallpaper - the windows are a newer addition than the wallpaper and Anglian-sodding-windows put frame...

Hi! We plan to strip the wallpaper in my son's room and paint it instead. My son and husband have been amusing themselves at bedtime by pulling bits of it off. This means that a) it no longer looks horribly unfashionable, it just looks horrible - sorting out this room has become a...

Hi, I'd love some advice on what to use to soundproof a bedroom. We have a Victorian terrace with a slightly shoddy build quality, and next door live some students :x The party wall in this bedroom has a chimney breast on it, so we'd be soundproofing the two alcoves (each about 1100 x...

Hi, I'm doing a bit of a refurb on our sash windows, and plan to put new locks in. On the sash windows we've done so far, we have used fitch fasteners - we like these as they help reduce the rattles. But then with the other windows we've pulled them out, replaced broken panes and put in...

Hi! obviously we won't be attempting any of this ourselves but I'd love some expert opinions on this :) Currently we have a downstairs bathroom with a boiler in it. Sometime this year we want to move the bathroom upstairs into our back bedroom. This back bedroom currently has a hot...

I've replaced broken panes in windows before and managed well (got lots of tips on here!). They are sash windows and I had to use the linseed putty on the outside bit. The next project is to put new glass into the door - there is horrible ripple-y glass there now and I want something...

Hi all, yet another question about my sash windows :) We've pulled out the sashes (THAT bit was quite easy!) and, after quite a long time scraping, I've removed the broken pane of glass. I was planning to stick a new one in and finish it off with linseed oil putty. The putty around the...

Hello all! this weekend we plan to start on refurbishing sash window #1 (out of 5). We're planning to take the sashes out of the boxes, replace the existing and missing sash cords, maybe get away with the existing weights, replace some broken panes, do some painting and hopefully put it all...

Before I can do anything about the gaps between my floorboards, I should probably at least try to give them a bit of a clean first. In fact, some of them are so filled up with dirt that I doubt I'd be able to fit any draughtproofing down there (and no, I do not consider a layer of dirt to be a...

Hi! Does anyone have any experience or an opinion on buying pine slivers from the old pine company? I'm looking into options for filling gaps. I'm considering using papermache + woodfiller (yes, I know but it is cheap and easy), draughtex, stopgap and slivers of pine. What has put me off...

I hope to do some work on our sash windows. Some of them are painted shut, some of the panes are cracked, some of the woodwork is rotten and they need painting. Sod's law means that all the ground floor ones are fine - it is only the upstairs windows that have the problem. I don't much...

Hi all, I've been using this site for a while for all sorts of handy info, but I can't find an answer for this question (perhaps because it's obvious??). I know nothing about electrics! We've just got the keys for our new place, and now that it is empty can see that there are hardly any...