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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...