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Can someone tell me if these are available? i've googled but don't find much. I have a gas Baxi for central heating and also electric heated water, I don't want to be reliant on one fuel. I will loose the water heater with electric if i go all gas combi. Is there anything on the...

Hi any help appreciated. I have A Baxi Bermuda, ive looked on the site and mine looks like the C5 but i have the on off dial on the side of the fire not the top. heating goes on and heats up lovely, then here a click sounds like 2 copper tubes being tapped together. Then a air...

Hiya Anyone in the business have any tips on which is the best quality exterior paint, i live on a busy road and i have a gable end that gets very dirty, i want to go for a Country Cream colour and so hopefully can find a paint that cleans well when it rains. Also have to take in to...

Can anyone help me i've googled sacrificer and i can't find a thing I have a lawn thats been well neglected and left under breeze block pallets for 2 years. Cant afford to lay new. brought a machine in B&Q electric raker scrificer for £10.59 reduced from £69 as handle holes in the wrong...

Im helping an older gentleman get his house up together and this is a very bad patch by his front door, something is pushing the plaster out and there is a mold that looks like clouds?? I know some molds are not safe to be around, can any one help with identifying this, and would anyone know...

I Have to do this tomorrow as floor man failed to turn up today :evil: , ( so tired of waiting for people to turn up to work and they don't even call on a no show :( ) Anyway never done this before but he did say when he was here, that its not very bad I've just been to get a bag of self...

Ive been looking at Kitchen Stainless Steel extractors with chimneys on websites, none have spec for the length of the chimney and i would like it to reach the cieling, would anyone know if i would be stuck with extra cost for an extension piece after purchase. My cielings are 8ft Thanks...

Please Could some one advise where I can get hold of radiator screws like the one in the photo. thanks OJ

Hope someone is still up tonight, as i'm having a fitter coming tomorrow. Any one know if its brown side, or plastic side to the floorbaords with cloud 9 underlay I have found 1 discussion when searching the net and they suggested brown paper facing up, but if they are wrong im stuck...

Hi there have just had ceilings plastered and now painting finished. Im left with no light fitted, and 1 month now with no lights down stairs. Think i could do this one quiet easily with a bit of confirmation. not sure the photos will help it looks like a spaghetti junction I...

Can someone advise please. just had 2 cielings plastered. As im not a plasterer, i haven't a clue untill its dry what it should look like. So when dry, it now shows patches were plaster hasnt been smoothed over bonding and theres a few ripples. Apparently im to zero sand paper the...

Hi chasing out for wires and sockets for rewire, the old metal pipes may well be stuck with the old wires in them, we couldn't budge the old cooker wire when replacing it. So i have found a much easier route to eliminate 2 pipes if it is acceptable. a breeze block wall dot and dabbed on...

Hello I am due a rewire and need to chase out the walls for wall lights. I am hoping they will be controlled from the main switch by the door. I don't want to dig to deep in a long line as the walls are bad and the cavity is exsposed when i put a back box in ( so needing to rebuild it...

i've just finished T&G ceiling was going to paint it with white emulsion straight on or watered down to show the grain but it looks lovely as pine. I don't want to varnish as it means rubbing down in the future. i cant varnish stood up let alone upside down and 20ft up a wall. Is there...

Hiya moving a plug up through ceiling over 3 meters and back down. problem is both wires are to short. 1 is unmovable and goes through the supporting wall somewhere far to awkward for me to get at. the other wire is the last to the consumer unit. so no leeway on that side either...

Ive read plaster damages cooker cable. What will cement do to it. I have added a stretch to the metal conduit in the wall but its black plastic. I want to cement round this, as the rest of the pipe is. I have been lucky that there was a recess already in the concrete that just needed...

since 10 days of fitting it leaked brown water from inside the pvc, so water was getting under the grey top and above the pvc base cladding. fitter has returned 5 times to attempt correction, excuses have been main roof leaking, ive just had main roof felted, then the over flow pipe above...

I am looking to buy a crimping tool and it will only be used for 4 connections to tidy up and illiminate connecters found under floor boards. Don't want to spend alot as its for one job ..but also want it to do the job. and is there a dual size for car wires and house wires so my son...

Hiya Im knockin a back box today for a cooker control switch, plug comby Im placing it 10inches above the work top area, to be inline with the next switches ive dropped in that are further along the wall. ive read alot of posts but can't see one that advises of a restricted length...

If you had the choice and for safety, which would you rate as the best. A shower switch 45 amp on the outside of the bathroom and the light switch out side the bathroom. Or both inside on string pulled switches and why? many thanks OJ