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Could I use no nails (or similar) to fix conduit to the chased out wall?

Hello A quick and probably silly question - if I want two BT phone extensions should they be wired as one cable going from the master socket - extension 1 - extension 2, or should each extension have a wire back to the master socket - or doesn't it matter? Cheers

If I need to lift the carpets for access and then put them back down, is there a way to do this without trashing them? They are hessian backed, with grippers around the edge of the room. I hope to avoid needing to take them up at all, but if I do I'd like to know what I'm in for!

Hello Our lounge has two wires sticking from the wall where there were once wall lights. The wires end in taped-up chock-blocks, and I had planned to get some lights to connect them to. However a quick look has revealed that there is no earth, just the live+neutral. I guess this will restrict...

One option for extending our pokey kitchen is to build an extension. It may be slightly preferable to go to the side, but at the rear of the house (where the kitchen is) there isn't a huge gap to the boundary. I'd say it's 2.5m. The house is at an angle to the boundary, so the available space...

Our house have an attic conversion. In the eaves of the front room attic bedroom there is some insulation boards (kingspan) on top of the rafters (to beef up the crappy old insulation). I would like to use this space to store useless crap...I mean seldom used items (eg. christmas decorations)...

Having remove all the paper from the ceiling, I am left with some small-ish cracks - some are hairline, some a few mm. I've read various things online about lath & plaster ceilings, think soemwhere said best not to skim over it with new plaster as the different plaster types would lead to...

Hi Started to sort out the bedroom - both walls and ceiling had painted-over paper. Luckily for the ceiling I managed to rip off the paint and I guess part of the paper in big chunks, and what was left steamed off easily. The walls have not been so easy. I tried scoring the paint, but even...

Hi folks In our kitchen we have a chimney breast, currently with a cupboard in it. We did plan to try to open up the hole (vertically, it's already wide enough) but having looked a bit more, it's not so simple (is it ever?) The chimney is on the external wall, but you can see from the...

Hi folks About to move into a new house. so this will likely be the first of many posts :) Most of the others around have alarms, and this one doesn't so want to get one installed, if only to not be the target of "that one doesn't have an alarm". Thinking of a wired Honeywell Accenta...