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Hi There, I'd like to refurbish my old front door instead of replacing it. I plan on taking out the thin 4mm glass. Machining the rebates deeper and replacing with modern sealed glass units. Currently the glass is mounted from the inside and held in place with putty. Is this method...

Hi All, I'm hoping for some advice here. We have a 1910 house, and have just had a builder take down an internal wall and replace it with steels. We now have a big room, but the floor needs attention. Half the floor is now a concrete slab, and the other half is a mix of brick, and no...

Hi there; I have just started a very small company selling 4 flute router bits! We started out from the frustration of bits not lasting long enough or giving a poor finish. So we designed and manufactured some of our own! I know advertising is not allowed on the forums. But I'd really...

Hi, I've designed a solid oak kitchen for the mass market in the UK. This will be mid priced and extremely competitive for solid oak. It is made to look like it is custom made so there are 3 mouldings that are added after initial fit. My question is; Are kitchen fitters confident in...

Hello, Just finished tiling my bathroom and realised my mistake too late!! The floor is tiled on timber floorboards with a sheet of ply on top. The adhesive is wickes wall & floor adhesive, with no flexible additive. The grout is normal too. Problem is the grout has now cracked. Can I...

Hi, Last weekend i changed the old single bathroom light for spotlights. -( 4 x 11 watt energy saving, which are excellent). I found that the old ceiling rose had the two ring wires, light switch, shaver socket wire, & extractor fan wire! This is against the rule of 1 spur off of a ring...

Ive got a bathroom extractor fan that vents through a vertical pipe that sits on the fan and goes out through the roof. Trouble is that the condensation collects on the duct and runs down back onto the fan. This is what has killed it i think. -Are any ceiling fans designed against this...

This should be an easy question for the pros; I'm re-doing a bathroom soon and am planning the work. I'm going to be tiling two walls which have a bath and pedestal sink on. As far as the quality of the tiling is concerned is it best to, a) Tile the walls and then put the bath and sink...

Afternoon, Has anyone ever seen a device or method that can tell you how much power is running through a cable? -Without cutting the casing etc. I know that you can get wire detectors, but is there anything that is a bit more advanced. I'm looking to research the whole area. More of a...

Hello, I've got a bosch dishwasher, thats about 3 months old now. Its letting in water which sounds like the water inlet valve, when left for about 8 hours. The water pressure is quite high in the house generally. - could this be the cause? I could turn it down with the isolation ball...

I work for a kitchen manufacturing company in th uk. We are deciding on what wall attachment method we will use for our future wall cabinets. Its an upmarket brand using cabinet making techniques. - No Flat pack!! I would really like to know your opinion on the 2 fixing methods; -flat...

I've not done tiling in large amounts before. I am attempting a whole room and floor. The question is do i need to leave any form of gap at the ceiling or floor join to allow for any wall tile expansion etc. Its a bathroom so will be hot/cold and damp. Also, the ceiling is getting...