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Hi All, I hope you can help with my wife's latest wish (or rather "want" :wink: ) She loves the Richard Burbridge Fusion add on and wants to remodel our staircase which is poor quality - bad staining, paint under stain - bad cuts (NHBC - it's a staircase and it works :x bunch of useless...

Hi All, We have an outside wall - part retaining as house is lower than the road, and it is topped off with red engineering brick - ie smooth and slightly glazed - laid on their side. They are not solid. Our neighbour has the same. I noticed the other day a large number of these bricks...

Hi Guys, I don't know if you remember my last issue with this Boiler exploded Well, now it is on the blink again. Wife phoned me last week to say it was not working - flashing alternate A and B- Pressure low - got her to top it up - all OK until yesterday - When I ran out of hot water...

Our 4.5 year old CB50 exloded today. The expansion vessel for the Central Heating side totally blew out. Luckily the boiler is located in the garage and nobody was in there at the time as the cover blew off the boiler and boiling water was spraying all over the place The Transco engineer said...

Hi I have purchased a shower bath (P shaped (and the complete suite)) and it is to be fitted across the width of the bathroom. I tried fitting the legs on the rear of the bath (opposite end to the tap), tightened them up and let go, and they buckled straight away, slightly bending the brace...

Hi, I have just seen that it is against building regs to bury pipework in screed without it being removable and all joints should be accessible. I know that in our 4 year old house that we have poly pipe buried in the screed on the ground floor for both hot and cold and there must be a...

Hi All, Our builder installed a wired alarm system (the box is marked SL?). It consists of 6 hard wired PIR's and a bell box. However, my work takes me away a lot and my wife wishes for the system to be upgraded to give the following. 1. External Monitoring for up the sides and around the...

Hi, After an accident, we need to replace the handrail, some spindles and the base bit to take the spindles. I have no issues with doing the work - quite the opposit, however, I am a little bit stumped as to how the handrail is attached to the newels. attached is a JPG diagram showing the...

Hi Guys - seeking a bit of advice here about the times it should take to fit the kitchen in the links below http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/6327682 it consists of a kitchen with 400mm floor 800 mm pan drawer 600mm cooker 500 mm drawers corner carousel unit 1000mm base 600mm...

Hi All, our builder has tiled straight onto the chipboard, and I know that he would of more than likely just used annualar nails to put these down. End result - we now have cracking grout and suspect it wont be long until we have tiles start coming up. I know that you are supposed to put...

Hi, about to undertake a kitchen refurb due to a crap builder (house is only 2 years old :cry: ) and abysmal NHBC!!!! I will give the builder his due, the cabinets in the kitchen are quite solid but the way he has fitted them is poor (they are actually Dewsons Premier Gold) with blocking...

Hi, looking for some advice, I bought our house 18 months ago, and it is a mixture between Wet Plastered (predominately downstairs) and Stud walls upstairs. The problem basically is that in a lot of areas - in fact the majority of the stud walls - the scrim tape is pulling/pulled away from...