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hi everyone! i'm thinking of making a high double bed in the box room, very simple construction. 2 timber beams on opposite walls, 2 or 3 thick planks spanning these beams, and finally floorboard thickness planks resting on these last planks with gaps in between on which the mattress will...

hi everyone! wanna fix a handrail for the stairs to the wall, is there a minimum/maximum height it must be? also, the brackets (brass) from screwfix only take gauge 6 screws... and the largest brass screws of this gauge i found are only 1.5" long... is this gonna be long enough for a good...

hi everyone. connecting a fan-oven to a cooker radial circuit : 32A MCB in the consumer unit, 6mm cable running to a 45A cooker control switch and then another 6mm cable continuing to a 'cooker outlet plate'. now i've trawled through a lot of posts to see what cable size to run to the oven...

hi everyone! gonna fit a sink into the worktop, the cutout is made but i've been given two different suggestions as how to seal the cutout... the first recommends to use a waterproof varnish, the second is to use silicone. seeing as i need to use silicone to seal the actual sink onto the...

hi everyone. i want to fix down the wooden floorboards (old style, not tongue and grooved) on the first floor of a house rather than hammer in traditional floorboard nails so as not to cause any damage to the newly plastered and painted ceilings... what gauge and length of screw would be...

hi everyone, been using this forum a lot, thanks for all the good advice posted! this is my first post, and it'll probably sound pretty silly, but here goes: does a fcu for a boiler count as a point in the "no. of points served" column on a p.i.r.? what about spurs (double sockets) on...