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Hi all, I had a decorator round today quoting to do the hall stairs and landing. There is a lot of woodwork to go through! I have emphasised the fact that the main focus is on quality rather than speed and cost (I want a top end job). I am going for an eggshell white finish on stair...

Evening all, I'm about to start a fair size job of preparing all my woodwork for re paint. Due to the amount of work involved I need some advice on the best abrasive paper on the market please. I'm a diy..er and you trade must have a secret weapon! So, I have oil based Dulux gloss and...

Hi, quick question... I'm in the middle of finishing a downstairs room and am left with the Solid Oak floors to be sanded and the rest to be painted (walls and ceiling etc). What do you Pro's do first? My dilemma is that if I do the walls first, then when I sand I end covering the lovely...

Hi All, Will start with an apology as I am sure this question must have been asked several times before but I was unable to find anything on it! I have what appears to be the usual blackening effect on Travertine floor tiles that I have used in my Wet Room. I have tried many different...

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Hi all, just looking for some advise please on Ted Tod flooring prices. I have a large project to complete at home approximate 70m2 and am looking for a high end solid oak floor and have just seen this make at John Lewis. Now without question the floor is top quality, but your looking at upwards...

Hi all, Hoping to get some advice on a project I am currently doing to automate my gates. I have purchased a set of Nice 24v metro underground units to hook up to my Iroko hardwood gates. Due to space restraints, I have to set the boxes / units on the insides of the posts. This is fine...

Evening all, Really hoping I can get a speedy response to some help required as I am in the middle of finishing my floors and need them completed for next weekend as I've got the new furniture arriving! Right, I sanded the living room oak floors over the weekend and went to a real fine...

Hello all, I don't usually post topics on this site, but have such a strong view on dob and dab, I feel I need to share it with others. I'm in the middle of fitting my new kitchen I purchased from Wren (great quality by the way). Prior to this, I had a plasterer around to do the whole...

Hello, I've justed moved my Crabtree strarbreaker dual rcd consumer box by a couple of feet. I very carefully marked all the lives and am 100% positive that all the lives are back in the right place. However, I think I have made a mistake in assuming that all the neutrals can go any where...

Hello. I've recently installed under floor heating in my house that is for the kitchen only. I've worked some smart electrics and have wired it so it can run completely independently, in other words when the central heating and hot water are off it will run through just the UFH circuit...

Hi, I've recently installed a pipe thermostat to my UFH circuit to help regulate the fluid temperature within the UFH sysytem. When the UFH is operating as a single circuit - in other words the CH + HW are off, the boiler sometimes beats the system at dissipating the heat which causes the...

Hi all, Literally just joined and to hopefully I can get some help with the following problem. I hope this will be a success! I believe this is possibly a common problem, but hopefully there is a standard solution? Ok, here goes. I have a one pipe system with a conventional boiler that...