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Been lumbered with a problem to sort out by family. Kitchen has 2 peNdants. They are on one circuit so they both come on together. My sister wants to replace them with an LED batten. Problem is the pedants are around 8ft apart and most easily available battens come at 6ft. It may be possible...

Hi I have a bedroom with carpet but I need to make it waterproof as I have a relative who is elderly and often drops food/drink onto the floor. The floor already has hardboard on it (stapled on) - I am considering just putting vinyl down as it seems it would be the simplest option Other option...

Last year I had walls newly skimmed and painted in the usual way (mist coat/2 layers top coat). There are some areas where the paint has been scraped off back to plaster layer. I did some research and general feeling is to fill these before painting to bring the level back up. I did this by...

I need to remove and replace a boss which is solvent welded on. I have seen advice on the net that for solvent welded ones you can try using a chisel and a heat gun. Has anyone managed to do it successfully without ruining the pipe? Also I would image the solvent weld originally would have...

I;ve got some quiet visible brush cutting in marks around sockets - after a recent paint job - abiut 3 weeks ago. I was intending to go over them with a mini roller in the hope the stipple effect would blake it blend in a little more. One of the sales assistants at the Crown shops reckosn this...

I have almost mist coated my hosue and am about to move onto my top coats 1) on the ceiling if my white paint comes down the side of the walls does it matter? I am thinking it will be painted over with 2 layers of my top coat colour anyway - but is there is a risk of paint build up being...

I used Leyland Contract Matt to mist coat 1 room (many more rooms to do). The instructions say 9 parts paint 1 part water. Infact I did 8 parts paint 2 parts water as I was cocnerned 9 to 1 was too thick. The paint is dry and is a chalky finish - t when I touch it I get residue on my fingers...

I need to paint a house. I went into Brewers (trade decorating shop) and asked for the tools I needed to do my mist coat. For cutting in the guy suggested a very thin brush and to take the roller right up to the edge of the wall.. Now I see that you might use a thick brush and then take the...

I am having a full re-wire. I have all copper pipework inside the house. I understand I need an earth connection to the water and gas mains. All of my circuits will have RCD so I udnerstand the copper pipes don't need to be earthed. I also have an outside shed which as 3 rooms - one of which...

I need to put in some copper pipe up to a bath tap. I am going to use a compression fitting tap connector. I note that these are usually left a certain amount of distane between the bottom of the tail of the tap - just so you can do the nut up on the tap connector - does anyone know the exact...

Hi All I have cause to go round a house with bare thermalite style grey blocks and make loads of markings. My thinking was to use chalk. It would then all be covered up with plasterboard afterwards. Is there anything better or is chalk the logical choice? I don't think chalk would...

I have some repairs to do in my house - some blocks need pointing and also some internal rendering needs fixing. As far as I can work out mortar between blocks and bricks is 3:1 or 4:1 sand and cement with plasticiser Render is also the same as far as I can work out. So can I make one...

I need to take up an old vinyl floor in the kitchen. Its got a lot of glue underneath it. What is the best way to make it unsticky? Can I just stick self levelling compound over all of it ?

Doesn't seem to be a great deal about nylon nuts on discussion forums. Is the gist that they are better to use over normal nuts when you need to ensure the nut won't come loose over time? I have a job at my house at the moment where some joists are being extended to sit on a new block wall...

I have fitted a fence post to a brick wall using acnhor bolts A bit like in the pic below. Only difference is that the thread on mine is much longer so the anchor part is within the wall and the thread goes all the way through the fence post and has a nut and washer at the front of the...

Is there such a system as this I want 2 CCTV cameras but i want them to be hidden or discrete so I wnat the oens where they are inside of a light and the light coems on when someone is close by. I can hardwire these up into the lfot and if necessary a recording machine can go into the...

Generally when drilling into brick/block I just buy packs of plugs/screws. I assumed the screws were specific for brick/block. Today I had to buy some buy the retaielr appeared only to sell wall plugs seperate from screws and I couldn't find brick/block screws apart from the mroe expensive...

Hopefully the right forum. I spose this is a question on houses are built/laid out I am having extensive work done at the moment to the outside. Once that is done I intend to do quite a bit of decorating inside - this will include new plasterboard ceilings and some electrical with with wires...

I am painting my shed which is breeze block with loads of big holes WHilst the roller is OK it is not filling in the gaps as much as I would li,e I see you can buy amsoanry brushes which tend to be quite big - will these make my job easier...

I am putting a fence up for a relative. I have attached a post to a wall and have attached arris rails - I am trying to screw the arris brackets on but because they back onto a wall it is difficult to angle my drill into position. Looks like I need something like this...