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I am building a stone seat from an old York stone fireplace. I have enough stone for the visible areas, but for the rear of the seat which is close to a wall and will not be seen, I plan to use breeze blocks. Will I need to render the exposed surface of the blocks with cement or can they be left...

Specifically, what size wall plug and drill size do I need for an M10 coach screw? More generally, does anyone know of any table on the internet that gives this information for all screw sizes - both metric sizes (e.g. M6, M8, M10 etc) and gauge nos (e.g. No 4, No 6 etc)?

I have a Baxi Bermuda 552 back boiler with LFE3 Super fire front. I've had it for about 17 years. The other day I was standing next to it, the fire front was not on, but the boiler had fired up, and I felt a steady flow of warm air coming out of the grill at the top of the fire front. I had...

Hi, After moving a light switch a few inches and reconnecting it I got a slight shock when I next switched it on, though it didn't trip the circuit breaker. I then discovered that whilst I had slipped out to the garage to turn on the supply, my wife had just wiped the (plastic) switch with damp...