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Sorry to re-open what might be a dead thread but I've got some problems. I bought a Harrogate table and chairs from B+Q last year. It had been pre-treated and before it went outside we put on two coats of the Roble stuff from Osbourne Davey. The table has been mostly covered or inside during...

All the other bedrooms are keeping the bare boards so I'd like to go with wood for this one as well. Plywood doesn't look as good so T+G it is. Thanks for the advice. I'll find a timber yard and do it properly, hopefully this one will last another 120 years.

I'm doing up a Victorian house and need to re-do the floor in one of the bedrooms. There's a big chuck missing where somebody has taken out the fireplace and the rest of the boards are in a really poor state with chunks taken out etc. What would be the best wood to use? Can i just take up the...

I'm about to do something very similar in my house. I'd heard bad things about the brown 'low-loss' coax and was going to try and get CT100. Is the PF100 they sell at screwfix the same same stuff?

I got myself a makita SDSplus drill in a sale a few months back. Since then its hammered and chiselled its way through countless back boxes and channels. As a DIY newbie I couldn't even put a rawlplug in without messing up, this thing seems to make all the difference. Well worth the extra...

Thanks for the advice. The annoying thing is that we'd told him we were shifting the airing cupboard. At first he forgot completely to put in the riser for the shower, had to get him back to do that. I'll go for the elbow and run the cold up in a box in the corner. Cheers for the speedy...

Recently I had a very bad plumber experience. Had a system boiler removed and replaced with a combi. I've recently removed the old airing cupboard to discover that he had left a few wonderful features: 1) The cold water mains riser into the roof space for the shower runs along the front edge...

It hadn't occurred to me these would be imperial measurements. Feeling a bit dim today obviously. I'll pop off home and remeasure. Sounds like a close fit an extenders/pipe bending are the way forward. Or just do a proper job on the old rads and strip/down paint. Don't really fancy that...

I'm looking for a bit of advice. I've currently got a rad off the wall for some major plastering. Its very old and manky looking, seems a few people have tried painting it to match the walls using emulsion. It hasn't worked. Anyway, I'd like to do a straight swap for another radiator. I'd...

Thats the document I was quoting from. Table 1 mentions "adding socket-oulets and fused spurs to existing ring or radial circuits". My understanding is thats all I'm doing, even though I'm extending the coverage of the ring the actual circuit is the same one.

Thanks for the advice, it was suddenly at the weekend I questioned how much I could replace before it became a new circuit. It seems to me that extending the ring is going to be a better way of doing things than just adding loads of spurs from it. I'm not sure hwy they took a ring upstairs and...

I'm currently renovating a house and want to add more sockets. There is an existing ring main in the upstairs but it only seems to cover the landing and one of the bedrooms. Its covered by a 32A fuse I'd like to extend this to take in the other rooms (bathroom excluded). Looking through the...

Thanks for the advice. I had a quick peer about last night and I reckon its not going to be too bad to go back to two sockets on the ring and do it properly, saves having to chase dodgy crimp connections in a few years time. I like the idea about chasing round the walls but I've got a few...

I need to add 3 sockets into a room that currently only has one spur. TO do this I'd like to extend the ring from the room next door. The easiest way to do this appears to be to break the ring and install junction boxes to join in the new section. Looking through this site it mentions that...

I've recently moved into a victorian house with ceramic tiles on the bathroom floor. The job has not been done well and half the tiles are starting to lift and crack. We'd like to re do this floor, tiles are freezing cold and really don't look nice. The rest of the upper floor is floorboards...