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We are planning to have a chimney stack removed as we no longer use it and it's leaning. Will this make lots of sooty dust in the roof space, especially when the last few layers of bricks are removed to get the stack below the roof tiles? Also afterwards the top of the chimney will be open into...

I want to fix a wooden batten to the wall above a large window to attach a curtain rail to. The batten will be 280mm long. Is it best to use nails, and if so what kind, or screws? If I screw it should I use wall plugs? If I drill a hole through the batten and into the wall should the wall plugs...

I want to change 2 old ceiling roses. I've done others but they were straightforward as the wires inside matched the diagram in Collins DIY book but these 2 are different. In one rose there are 4 grey cables entering it. One of the grey cables just has a red wire going from it to the live...

A British Gas engineer recently replaced an anti gravity valve because the upstairs radiators were getting hot even when the boiler was just set to hot water. That problem is now solved but 2 of the upstairs rads no longer get warm at all. The engineer came back and said it was an airlock. He...

I want to replace a light switch in the garage that controls a 100w incandescent bulb. Do I need to use a 10AX switch? The garage lighting circuit also contains 2 other 100w bulbs and 2 fluorescent lights all of which have their own switches that I am not replacing. Thanks for any help.