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My kitchen project has been stalled for some time now and the reason is the cornice I bought for the top of the wall cabinets, The straight bits went fine, but where I needed a 45º cut for the corners I got problems. I tried a common mitre box but the problem is that the cornice is...

I confess to not knowing a great deal about gardening. However my girlfriend seems to think I do as I am getting hinted at regarding this rose she has. She keeps asking about the cheap fan trellis she has in the garage and how it would be nice to get the rose to climb over it. Personally I...

Hi. I think this is the right forum. I've been putting together a kitchen for some time now (just as well I'm here on my own as no one else would put up with the length of the project). The base and wall units are in (sans doors) and used, but the next issue concerns the extractor above the...

Hi. I was hoping to garner advice on laying floorboards. To give a small history of the situation so far : When I first bought my house I'd not been there long when I realised one part of the dining room floor tended to give a little more than I was comfortable with. But as I didn't want...

Hi. Unsure which forum to ask this but hoping this might be the most suitable. I have a rather small galley type kitchen, units down one side, bare wall (and radiator) the other, and for a while now I've been wondering if a hinged worktop on the bare wall might not be useful. Thinking along...

Unsure if this is the sort of problem that can find a solution on a national forum or not, or even if this is the right one, but here's hoping. A few years back I had a local builder do some work for me, which included fitting a kitchen. Recently I had to remove base units to get to pipes...

Do all weatherproof sockets require entry from the sides or top or bottom ? Somehow I imagined that a rear entry wouldn't have been the more obvious, until I looked at one.

Can one buy what would be the equivalent of an unfused unswitched connection unit ? (It would need a minimum of 4 terminals. I'd need to connect 4 lighting cables.) Before anyone asks, I am trying to avoid hidden/inaccessible junction boxes above the ceiling - please humour me. :) Or...

For those not wanting to read all the waffle below, how do you wire a 3 way switch circuit using the new colour scheme ? ----------------- Done it quite a few times before but want to get the colours right. Unless I have misunderstood this implies ... Blue has been replaced by Grey...

No great need to know, but have been wondering about them both for a while. I've been informed that one should not bleed radiators that are supplied by a combi. I can not claim that the guy who installed the system in my place mentioned it, so I wondered a) if it were true, and b) if so, why...

Probably a daft question but ... I presently have the floor up in the extension so that I can modify the routing of cables and pipes etc.. And I have noticed that the concrete base can be noticeably damp on one side, under where an air brick is located. At first I assumed water was getting...

Brass sockets, metal box. Which is the way to go ? I) Cables connect earth to box, link earth from box to socket ii) Cables connect earth to socket, link earth from socket to box iii) One cable connects earth to box, the other to the socket. link between both. iv) No consensus of opinion...

Hopefully a simple subject. I'm redoing the kitchen, and part of the job has turned out to be a need to move the sockets etc. so that they don't end up behind the new tall units etc.. Besides they were always a little low on the wall having cut into the 'splash backs' (?) above the worktops...