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    Planer thicknesser for sanding engineered oak floor

    Hello, We've bought a used engineered oak floor. It's 20mm thick with about 6mm oak making up the real wood layer. It's in need of a sand so we either fit the floor and then sand it or I was thinking of maybe buying a planer thicknesser and sanding each plank first but never used one. Can you...
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    Is my kitchen sink waste pipe too high?

    Hello, We're fitting a new-to-us kitchen at the moment and I'm trying to fit the waste trap for the sink (1 + 1/2 bowl) and I'm stuck when it comes to fitting the trap. I bought a McAlpine trap from Screwfix but when I try to fit it, the u bend is much lower than the current waste pipe that...
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    Help fixing floor joists and damp in Victorian house

    Hello, We bought a Victorian terraced house last year. We knew about problems in the front room with damp and that the floor wasn't level and we're finally getting round to trying to rectify the problems. The bay window was quite damp with salts coming through and soft plaster. What we've...
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    Which type of mortar for pointing stone?

    Hello, I live in a terraced house in Bristol and it has brickwork like this: The pointing is crumbling in quite a few places so we've decided to re-point the front. I've started raking out the old mortar but I was just wondering if I can use the ready mix multi-purpose mortar you can...
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