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Hi, I need to put the finishing touches to a fireplace but I could do with some advice. The linked photos should help explain the question. I have a block work flu, a plasterboard wall and a newly fitted marble fireplace. I know I disturbed some of the fire cement when...

Decorating the lounge at the moment. First time we've decorated this room since we moved in. Previous owners of the house must have had something hanging over the fireplace because they had 2 fairly heavy duty wall plugs in the middle of the wall above the (gas) fire. When we moved in we...

Hi, I'm trying to make use of the space under my stairs by turning it into a cupboard. I've made a whole in the plasterboard big enough to crawl inside and now I'm in I've found a few things that raise some questions. The stairs are open on one side and join an internal wall that has...

Hi, I'm planning some work in the garden and one of the improvements I'm considering is a drainage channel (like Aco Hexdrain). I want to put the channel tight to the house and then block pave up to it. I'm lucky in that the only pipes on the outside of the house are rainwater drain...

Hi all, I just wondered if the same principles apply when tiling a kitchen to tiling a bathroom? Specifically, when I tiled the bathroom... I battened the wall 1 tile height above the bath and tiled up from there. Then I fitted the bath. Then I fitted the last row of tiles - trimming...

Hi all, In the middle of a kitchen refit and have bought a HotPoint built in microwave. Much to my dismay, the only instructions about installing it talk about electricity. I have that sorted, so no worries there. My questions are about fixing it. It's going into an appliance...

Hi, I'm refitting a kitchen at the moment and I think I've got everything organised apart from the consumer unit. The existing unit sits above a wall cupboard and to be honest it's an eyesore. I've thought about various options from covering it/boxing it in to replacing it with a shiny...

Laminate floor in a kitchen... Details: It's a complete kitchen re-fit; new cupboards, appliances and floor. All appliances are integral. The base is a concrete floor, I've bought a suitable underlay. The laminate is click/lock and is suitable for kitchens (water resistant). There's...

Hi, I recently undertook a DIY project to tidy up my sky cabling. Like every other normal install, the sky engineer simply drilled through the exterior wall of the house and poked the cables through. Aside from moving the cables a couple of feet, I also terminated them with a double F...

Hi, I'm trying to fit an NTE2000 adsl filtered faceplate. I'm no expert so apologies if my terminology is wrong. Basically, I've bought a replacement for the bottom half of the bt master socket which has an adsl filter built into it. On the back of the faceplate I've bought is an IDC...

I'm in the planning stages of my next project which will be a new kitchen. Part of the plan involves replacing a single (built under) electric oven with a double (built in) oven. Obviously, this also involves moving where the oven is located. I've done a bit of research into doing this...

Guys, I'm looking for some advice on removing a radiator please. The radiator in question is on the ground floor of the house and is fixed to a stud partition wall. I'm okay with disconnecting it - shutting down the valves at both ends and actually taking the radiator off the wall...

Hi all, I'm fitting an heated towel rail in bathroom. In truth, it's already on the wall, it's just not wired up yet. The heating element is rated a 400W. I was going to take a spur from a normal ring mains double socket to power this heating element and just wanted to check what gauge...

Hi, I'm putting a spur in to my upstairs ring main. There's already some trunking on the wall which would be perfect for the spur cable. My concern is whether or not the trunking is suitable for the cable? The trunking is 25mm wide and 15mm deep. It already has 1 length of coax in...

I'd like to build a glass block wall in my conservatory to try and divide the room into 2 distinct areas. Ideally I want the wall to be about waist height - so 6 or 7 blocks. My problem is securing the wall. The conservatory is the width of the house and I'd like to split it width ways...

Currently, in my loft, I have a junction box with 4 twin and earth cables connected in it. Cable 1 brings the power from the fuse box. Cable 2 passes the power onto the next light in the circuit. Cable 3 goes to the pull switch in my bathroom. Cable 4 goes to the light fitting in my...

Hi, I'm looking for tile trim with a 't' profile. I've seen you can get straight edge trim for when your tiling stops part way along a wall but I can't find a t bar. I'm planning to tile onto a (small) sheet of 9mm plywood. If I could find one, a t-bar tile trim would not only cover...

Hi, My conservatory roof is leaking and I'm looking for some advice on fixing it. I acquired the conservatory when I bought the house, so I have no idea who installed it or how old it is. It doesn't look like a particularly expensive one, I'd guess it was a DIY kit to be honest. It's full...

Hi, I recently ripped up some laminate wood flooring in my conservatory as I am planning to tile the floor. The house in question is of modern construction (about 10 years old) so is breeze block inner wall and brick outer (with a cavity in between). My question concerns 3 airbricks in...

I know this question has been asked a thousand times before (for which I appologise) but once more can't hurt can it? I want to replace an electric shower in my bathroom. The current unit is an Aqualisa Aquastyle I but it gives no clue as to the power rating. The house is of modern...