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We have an oil fired boiler for our house which provides radiator heating and hot water. The system cannot heat the hot water independently of the radiators. There is no thermostats controlling room temperatures. All the radiators have thermostatic radiator valves. The heating on/off is...

Building a shed and was going to clad it with uPVC white hollow soffit board applied horizontally. I will be using the secret nailing technique to fix it to the frame. I am planning to install a breathable vapour barrier onto the exterior 4 by 1 inch frame and then install the soffit. In the...

I've been dealing with an architect for a planning application which involves a second story build over an existing single story kitchen extension at the rear of the house. He's been talking about putting a flat roof over the extension as opposed to a hip roof. I'm not that keen on a flat roof...

I live in a mid terraced house with a single story kitchen extension out the back already built when we moved into the house 18 years ago. The toilet in the house is downstairs and I was looking into extending over the kitchen extension to add a small bathroom upstairs to save tramping...

I'm planning to wallpaper two walls, ones a stud wall and the other a brick wall both plastered and have been wallpapered before. Is there any sense in applying or painting something to the walls before papering in order to dampen the surface to make sure that the wall doesn't soak up the paste?

I've installed a new UPVC back door and frame to my back shed with frame fixers and I'm waiting on a re-ordered side window as the supplier got the original measurements for the window 40mm too wide for the opening. What is the best way to fix the side window to the door frame? I was advised to...

I have a challenge circular saw bought from Argos a couple of years ago. The diameter of the blade is 185mm. The blade that came with the saw is a 24 teeth blade. I am looking to lift some tongue and groove floorboards and want to get a blade with more teeth for a finer cut so I can cut the...

I installed a new monobloc mixer yesterday with flexible tap tails instead of the copper ones as they came with the tap pack. There appears to be a leak off the hot connection which I will investigate further tomorrow after work. In anticipation of having to buy a new flexible tap tail can I...

I recently redecorated a bedroom. Before redecorating I noticed a hairline crack in the corner of the wall on an internal corner. This crack run mor or less from floor to ceiling. I prepared and filled the crack with flexible pollyfilla and sanded and painted and the crack was no more. Fast...

We've had a problem which has developed over the last 4-5 months. Sometimes when we wash the dishes in the sink and leave them to dry there can be an unpleasent smell on the washed items. This doesn't happen all the time and it seems to be that the sponge used picks up the smell and if we...

I want to get a satellite cable from the LNB down a conduit. It might be a bit of a tight squeeze but I was wondering if a bit of WD40 sprayed on the outer sheathing would help it slide down more easily, or would it attack the cable? Also when the installer put the original wires in the...

I currently have an electric hob (with a nice big crack right the way through it :lol: ) and a double electric under oven built in. Because of the cracked hob we're replacing the whole lot, hob and under oven. I'm asuming that it should be as simple to do as the steps below: 1. turn off...

We have a bay window at the front of our house with lead flashing which has started to weather a little bit. I've recently painted the house and was just wondering can you paint lead flashing with exterior masonry paint or not? Would it be an advisable thing to try?

I have a time clock for my central heating which has a face divided up into sections which are half hour in duration. The central heating is a boiler that heats the water for radiators and hot taps and isn't a combi system. To set the heating to come on you have to pull the pin away from the...

I have a back boiler installed with a pump and a thermostat on the pipe which turns the pump on and off when the fire heats the water to the temperature set on the thermostat. Recently the pump hasn't come on when it should, ie when the pipe is warmer than the temperature set on the...

I'm in the market for a thermostat to be situated in the living room and I would like one that is wireless as it could turn out be rather messy with the installation of a wired one. The distance from thermostat to boiler would be no more than 15 metres and there would be 2 walls between the...

Any special precautions or special drill bits I need to use when drilling floor tiles in the bathroom? By round doorstop I mean the ones that look like one quarter of a sphere. Like the one in this...

I just noticed on a room papered yesterday that one of the peices where I cut the joint at the roof doesn't match up with the other piece. The paper has been on less than 24 hours. Is it possible to recut the joint so that it is in line with the other piece while it is still at this stage. I...

I have a brace wall in my living room which I want to paper with a red paper and the window wall at a right angle to the brace wall which I want to paper with a white/cream paper. The question is what's the best way to hang the paper on these 2 walls so that the joint is nice and tight with...

I have a 53cm cantebury plaster ceiling rose which I will fix to the ceiling using coving adhesive. On top of the ceiling rose I want to mount a pretty flush and light light fixture with 3 stems for lights coming from the centre of the light. Is it standard practise to mount the light...