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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...

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.

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.

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...

With an impending new arrival (due in August) are we are dividing our existing large double bedroom to create a smaller nursery room and an office/guest room. At some point in the past a previous owner had knocked through two room to create one very large bedroom so we are actually returning...

I thought my solar powered garage light solution might be of interest to others here and I’d be really interested to hear if anybody has build something similar. The problem I was facing is that our garage is not close enough to the house to run power too, but I use the garage frequently...

We’ve got half a dozen louvered wooded doors on some built in wardrobes which have been varnished at some point in the past and we want to re-paint them in a simple white egg shell. Because of the intricacy of the louvering they are going to be impossible to sand well enough to provide a key to...