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Thanks darken, I was thinking the same thing. But which method would you use, or would you just spread the plaster of Paris straight on the damaged painted surface? The coving is smooth but with a lot of steps. Thanks for the help Tom

Yep that's fine, when comin from the front door you just want any light, the only time the one at the guest bedroom would be used is if a visitor is going to bed. But most of the control would be done at the living room side. To access toilet and kitchen. Thanks for all the help I now know...

Thank you guys. To be honest the only reason I have dimmers was because the shop had a 60% discount on really nice switches but the offer did not include rockers which would have looked better. And so all my switches are dimmer switches even if I swap the mojo with push ones. Again thank you...

Hi there, Hope you guys can help me out. I need to repair Victorian plaster coving that is seriously damaged, what's the best way? I was told to sand down, fill, sand down again, then paint with emulsion. hamas also told to sand down, paint eggshell white, fill, sand down again, then...

Hi there guys, I am having a small problem finding out if it is possible to have 3 switches control a series a down lights in a hall way with dimming. I need 1 switch at the front door, 1 switch in the middle where the 2nd bedroom is, and a 3rd switch at the end of the hall where it leads to...

So leaving a 2mm on purpose is not common practice? Or is it just simply wrong and I need to have a word with them? Sorry I'm now worried the finish will be terrible. Thank you for the help. Tom

Hi there, I have a builder and his team who are are lining walls for me, 6 rooms in total. They have lined the walls with a 2mm gap between each sheet and they just started before I stopped them to fill the gaps with filler without putting emulsion on first. I have read that you have to...

Seriously thank you soo much for the help. At least now I can just extend the cable and fix one of those plates to the wall. Again many thanks. Tom

Thank you so much. I was having such a problem finding any info about them.

Hi there, Does anyone know how this small round device work? It has an arial point and a satalite point from what looks to be 1 wf100 wire. To be exact 2 wires in 4 points out. Does the devise split the signal? Thanks fore the help.

Hi there, I was just wondering if anyone could give me a rough idea of how much it would cost to skim vs line and fill by square meter. A builder said it would cost more to line and I just don't understand how that is possible. Any help with this would be great. Thanks Tom

I am getting mixed messages, do you mean I can ignore page 67 table 4 of the part M of the building regs? http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/upl...F_ADM_2004.pdf But assume I have to shave away 40mm what is the best way?

lol it's a bit of a strange situation the wall that makes up the mini corridor into the kitchen is not load bearing, it makes up one side of an old dumb waiter in the kitchen. infanct I asked the freeholder if I can remove it to make the kitchen bigger but he said no, so my plans have gone up...

Not sure to be honest, I had a read through the regs regarding door widths and it said that doors from hallways (less than 1200) not head on have to be a minimum of 775mm wide, am I misunderstanding the documents? Ohh sorry I wrote 770mm my mistake. Oh and the case officer from the council...

Hi all, I have a real problem, I am opening a doorway from a hallway to a kitchen, but as building regs insist the doorway must be 770mm wide. This wouldn't be a problem if the doorway opens into the kitchen directly but instead it will open up into a 785mm wide mini corridor and so I need to...

Sorry about that, it's a top floor flat in a Victorian purpose built flat. The pipe is a communal hot water pipe that runs through all the flats, but for some reason it drops down the middle of my kitchen and then bends at the floorboards and then run flush against the wall for all the other...

Thanks for the reply, Yes it's a flat and I will need to get landlord concent. Sadly I will not be able to box it in as it is really almost smack in the middle of a very small kitchen. What's the best place to find a commercial plumber, any idea how much it would cost as well? Thanks...

Hi there, I was just wondering if anyone knew who would be able to cut, thread and re route an old 10cm steel hot communal pipe. I have a kitchen that has a hot water pipe running ceiling to floor almost in the middle of the kitchen. 2 plumbers that came to look at the kitchen said they...

Thanks Tony, Just to clarify the 1 layer brick wall juts into the bathroom, (partitioning slightly the room) and then meets the roof beams above, so it's 1 foot away from the end not the croner as such. I'm guessing that it doesn't matter but I just wanted to double check. Thanks guys Tom

Hi there all, I was wondering if it is ok to drill a hole for a soil pipe (from toilet) through a supporting brick wall, 1 foot away from the side edge. (Wall supports roof) As I've never done this before I am worried that it might weaken the integrity of the wall. If so, is there a way...