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Obviously needs to be durable for offices and corridors. What do you pros use?

These need stripping back and re-finishing. What would be the best way to go about this? Belt sand and yacht varnish?

Hi. Fitting a 1500x800 thin shower tray upstairs on floorboards. What's the best way to go about it? Has to be risen up as the joists are in the way to lay flat to the floor. Would you batten it with 3x2 then a sheet of 18mm ply? Or use the riser legs it comes with but they just screw round...

I want some lights on the front of the house. Just something like old fashioned bulk heads with Hue colour lamps in. This is in the back of my house. Would like to know if it would be ok to come off this box? Main points are, 1, that grey cable goes to a switch and then to 'upstairs...

I basicly need to hardiebacker on the studwork but not sure how the pipe comes off and the plate around the controls.

It's an old 1940s council house living room that I want to lay new laminate flooring down. It already has a laminate down which looks as though it is layed on just a plastic sheet with the floor under that having floor leveller. I will leave the plastic down but I'd like to put an underlay on...

Or will you see where you have done like silk?

Were doing up our living room and decided to take out the fire place. Plan is to open it up for a wood burning stove although a stove will go in at a far later date when funds allow. For now we will just put an electric lookalike in. As you can see I've took the surround off and I'm...

Just trying to fit 2 new light fittings which are metal but there are no Earth connections on them. The ones ive just took off which are also metal do have Earth connections. Do i need to earth them ? https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0077BH3FK/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm a caretaker and I've got a load of doors to paint at a school. We're wanting to use a water based paint from Crown Paints for low odour. Is it OK to paint over the oil based paints?

Took my old rad off in my kitchen as I've replastered and fitted new kitchen. The distance between the 2 valves is 1160, the closest sized rad I can find to that is 1100. My question is will my pipework have to be adjusted or are the any extension pipes which I could use to make up the...

Hi. Getting to the end of fitting my kitchen and ive just had a look at the new ceramic hob, oven and it seems there wired up different to the old ones i took out. The old ones were wired up with the cable going into the hob, then back out and into the oven with just L,N and earth...

Hi :D Ill be doing a splash back soon using glass tiles http://www.diy.com/nav/decor/tiles/wall-tiles/wall_tiles/Colours-Single-White-Glass-Wall-Tile-L-300-x-W-100mm-12257606?skuId=12788312 Can anyone give me any pointers on adhesive and cutting these tiles? cheers :D

Hi :D bought a few of the new 50mm Cypress Cinnamon form B&Q http://www.diy.com/nav/rooms/kitchens/kitchen-worktops/laminate_worktops/-specificproducttype-worktops/Cypress-Cinnamon-50mm-Square-Edged-Worktop-3000mm-13128638 Never fitted a 50mm square edge before, has anyone got any...

Does anyone know the average waste water a 7kg washing machine kicks out per wash ? I want to move my WM but it would mean having the waste going into an acko drain outside so would just like to know in LITRES how much water will pump into it. Thanks.

Hi, I currently have an accenta G4 alarm panel, one keypad, 3 sensors and a bell box. This was all in the house when we moved in and its never worked properly. What happened was it all works but the bell box never alarmed, I messed about a little and got the bell box to siren but then it...

Might be a stupid question but I wondered if placing storage heater bricks ontop of convector rads would help to give off more heat after rads turn off.

I'm currently fitting skirting around my newly plastered and painted room. I'm thinking of staining it with Colron Georgian medium oak dye so will be gripfilling skirting to the walls. Just want to know what is the best way of filling the gaps between the skirting & wall, I can only think of...

Hi, Im after the closest match to oak colour for a stain. I fitted an oak banister few years back and the stair strings were pine. I remember the decorators using a water based stain on the pine and i could hardly tell the difference in colour to the natural oak timber. Anyway i cant...

Hi, just finished plastering all my bedroom and very pleased with the results. Thanks to the info off some people on here :D Just want to know if i should wait a little to put the radiator back on the wall incase the heat drys the plaster too quickly or will it be ok? the wall the rad goes...