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I’ve had the stairway re-plastered in the house as part of some pretty major building renovations. The plastered has done a good job but having decorated the new plaster and the original stringers (completed about 2 months back) I’m getting a lot of cracking in the paint where the wall meets...

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Thanks GH, having looked at some samples I think we are going to go for Laminate, although wood will look better when its first laid I can see my daughter doing a lot less damage to Laminate. Cheers, TC.

Just wanted to resurrect this thread briefly to say thanks guys for the feedback. We've finally completed the purchase of the new house so I can now get into the garden. Hope to be putting the new bed in this week so will let you know how it goes.

That looks like one vote each to me, anyone else?

I’m having some plastering done and as part of this I need a couple of ceilings made good, we’ve got quite a few cracks which look very much like they are running around the edges of the originally plaster boards (which will now be some 40 years old). I’ve had one plasterer tell me that we...

I’m putting a new power shower in and looking for a good quality and quiet pump for it. I was thinking about the salamander RSP50 screwfix) at £110. Anybody used this? Or can anybody suggest something better for the same sort of money? Cheers, TC.

As part of a fairly major house renovation, we are going to put down a new floor on the ground floor of the house which will cover the main entrance hall, kitchen and dining areas. Given the abuse this will suffer from little children, push chairs (and probably my boots) are we better going for...

As part of some extensive renovations I’m going to put a new laminate floor and kitchen in. Is the order of work screed, laminate kitchen then base units on top or, screed, base units then laminate? Cheers, TC.

Thanks imamartian and Thermo, both really great idea, and lovely looking beds. The design will be very curved, but I like the idea of just using pressure treated timber cut and set into the soil. I had thought of using log roles, but I think the look is a bit too ‘fussy’, I think I’d rather...

We are putting together our fairly extensive building plans on a new house we are in the process of buying, and want as part of this to replace the very old boiler with a nice new modern condensing one. We also want to move the location but I’m not sure how long the flue can be. The new...

Am looking for a long handled hedge trimmer for occasional use and strimmer for doing the edges of the lawn, anybody got any experience of either of these…. http://www.screwfix.com/search.do;jsessionid=VW4NRQA34PGIQCSTHZPCFFI?_dyncharset=UTF-8&fh_search=95652...

I want to create a couple of slightly raised beds (around 100mm) which will be curved in design. Can anybody suggest a good timber material that I can get to use as edging between bed and lawn? TC.

Thanks joned, might put a U bend in and then the long run to the outside.

I've replaced two rads in the house using compression joints and would do it again. They have been going strong for several years now and I would defiantly do the same again. However, on one of them I did have a drip after it was first connected, a little tightening sorted it but if it had...

Currently we have a tumble dryer which vents to the outside, however, we are soon to be moving house and want to put the tumble dryer in a location which is a bout 4m from the nearest outside wall. I don’t really want to buy a condensing dryer to replace it so I’m wondering if I can just run a...

So I’m looking for my first router, initially it is for a specific task but ultimately I want something that I’ll be for more projects at home. For now I need something that I can use for cutting lock rebates for a specific electronic lock: Any advice on what router I should be looking...

Had it on last weekend for over 4 hours during the day, still going strong :)

Robzc, am lucky enough to have been able to position it out of view of passers buy so I haven't' secured it. But the frame has locations for fixing so you could fix it to a wall or frame with security fixings.

We had exactly the same problem when changing the bathroom in our new (to us) house a couple of years back. We chased it into the wall at the non tap end (by about 50mm), made the wall good and retiled (which we were anyway), looking at it now you wouldn’t know. I defiantly would not trim the...