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Ive just put up a load of tongue and groove style thin wood paneling in a bathroom, that im going to be painting a thick light grey, the grain isn't likely to be seen and nothing is to be stained. ive pushed each nail below the surface so its not seen and id like to fill in the dinples left...

I had an old 60's Gas fireplace removed from my living room this week and im pretty sure whats left is an asbestos board and possible asbestos around the flue. The board looks like asbestos board, the material around the flue seems to glisten in the light a little, looks a bit fiber like I was...

I have bought a new tap for the kitchen sink, the tails on it are standard tap size on the tap end, on the other end the tightening nut is smaller than those on the 15mm valve fitted to the end of the pipe run. Im pretty sure in my upstairs bathroom i have the tap tails connected directly to the...

Ive just installed a brand new oak worktop. unfortunately the edges of the joins are a millimeter or two out due to the tops being ever so slightly different thicknesses etc. I was wanting advice on how to smooth these down. Should I hand sand with block (120, 240 or 320 grit?) Should I use a...

just finished decorating a room, had it all planned in my head and when ive come to fit everything in the way i planned it doesn't fit, the bed is going to have to go in a completely different place, and now the sockets and switches need to be moved. I can live with them where they are for now...

I have a double socket in the bedroom, it's on a ring with two wires feeding into it, no spurs etc on this circuit it's all new. The wires run through a hole in the joist but the hole and wires will be in the way of some work I'm doing going forward. I need to move them about 2 feet to the...

My house has 1950's tongue and groove floorboards, they dont appear to be much use, they are loose, noisy some are split and warped (nailed down). Ive been looking into how best to deal with them and the two options are, screw the good ones down and replace the rest. replace the whole lot...

had a washing machine repair guy around who told me i needed to replace some parts to do with the dryer portion of my washer dryer, this is because the dryer errors when in use and makes a god awful sound when running. however subsequently never got back to me even after a follow up, so i...

Had the ceiling skimmed in the bathroom a few weeks ago and we painted it about a week ago. did a base of watered down paint and then a few days later we did two top coats with a bathroom paint which is water and mold resistant. last night i noticed the paint looked to be bubbling up, but on...

Ive been searching and getting so much conflicting advice that ive decided to post and hopefully get some straight answers. I want to tile my bathroom and have 3 surface types to tile. the Tiles are Ceramic 12" x 35" Surface 1 - wall, plasterboard Moisture resistant green - outside shower area...

I have a bathroom with, accent lighting (leds) and a main light that triggers the bathroom fan which stays on after the light is used. the accent lighting is on a separate switch and basically controls two 12v power supplies for LEDS. Id like to have one of the following two options: Option...

doing my bathroom renovation and had the floor up in the corridor, got lazy and had a load of junk out there, on the joists, so was having to step over stuff etc. well while carrying the plastic toilet cistern, i slipped, doh! the kitchen ceiling is brand new but luckily not plastered...

After some advice on here, im now ready to fit a new toilet in my bathroom. the New toilet has what looks to be a standard waste connection. What i need is a connector of sorts that fits into the cast iron which i will be cutting to length near the wall, then have a run of plastic around...

I need to cut the brick under the bottom of this hole. so as to bring the hole down one brick. this will allow me to run my ventilation straight outside. The idea is to cut the brick fit the plastic pipe and then pack the whole with deep cement to strengthen it all back up. obviously i cant...

Im going to tile this wall the wall on the right of the image below. however i recently realised that it was way more off level than i thought, its a bit of a bodge to say the least. It actually kinks out and back in again. my original idea was to ask a plasterer to level it out, but the more i...

im getting toward the point of sealing my aquaboard panels on my bathroom wall. Ive built a niche into the wall in the shower area so i want it to be extra water tight, to do this, ive bought some tanking membrane to paint over all the corners and joins, however.. what do i use to seal any gaps...

I have a 100mm channel width extractor for my bathroom that i need to install. the wiring is all done and in place. the problem im having is with running the ventilation pipe. i purposely bought some plastic 100mm PVC solid pipe to do the job, i was planning to run it straight through the wall...

Im currently building a niche in my bathroom as in the images below. I want to put 3 spot lights into the top of the niche shining down from the top. there is about 75mm of space but i think a maximum hole size of 65 - 70 mm would be about right. The house was rewired a month or two ago and...

i need to remove a toilet from my bathroom, Ive never done this before so looking for some advice on how it can be done. The biggest issue is, the waste pipes are asbestos (they have been tested) and ill need to do it without breaking them. Id also like to avoid cutting them if possible. im not...

Plumbing up the new shower, and it was time to get into the loft and fit the new shower head, in order to strengthen the head i put some spare plywood up above the plasterboard, and threaded the shower "arm?" through, the problem is once the nut is tightened up, there is no thread left to...