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Hi, I currently have a carpeted living room that I will be going to lay laminate down next month and I'd rather take the skirtings off to avoid having beading all the way round the living room. I am assuming that, as long as we don't break any of the skirtings they can simply be put back on...

Hi folks, I have an area that I want to put a shed onto, it's all 2x2 slabs but they are all running at an angle. The area is too large to lift and level it all off. I wanted to know if there were any other ways to make a level base? Picture attached. One idea I read was to cut high density...

Hi all, I have a question around wiring an LED driver. I have some LED strip lights which I would like to use in a bedroom for some nice diffused lighting. The drivers here are the ones i plan to use...

Hi I have a small area less than the size of a 5 pence peice which has blown at the join of my kitchen worktop. Are there metal trims that would go over an L shape join?. Thanks

Hi Our loft has 35x 100mm joists at 500mm gaps. Will this size and spacing of joists handle either 9mm ply or 18mm loft boards? Should i get the loft legs or put down some battons. Any advice appreciated

Hi, I am looking to extend my loft hatch and wanted to buy the same size of wood, however the size i measured doesnt seem to be readily available or im missing something? Size measured was 1.5"x 2 3/4 " Any thoughts?

I have a upvc tilt and turn window that will not shut properly – normally it’s not a problem unless its very windy outside. On the window there seems to be 2 catches on the bottom, side and top of the window which when the handle is turned the catch locks into place – there is one of the top...

hi folks ONe of the radiators in my flat needs bled but the bleeding gromit has been overtightend and chewed so now it wont come loose. Is there any tricks of getting these off?

hi, I recently strippped off all of the wallpaper in my flat and when I did a lot of cbhips came out of the plaster work. So I have spent a while go back round all of the walls with plaster to fill all of the wee gaps up. We are going to put wallpaper up - do I need to do anything else to...

Hey guys I removed a few radiators yesterday to strip wallpaper and when I replaced them the lockshield valves are leaking a tiny bit. The leak is hardly anything is doesn’t drip but it’s making me worried that the leak could get worse and cause damage if left like this. I have tightened the...

hi folks, I removed a radiator in my hall last night so that I could get in behind it to strip off wallpaper. I noticed that the radiator was very rusty at one of the lochshield valves so I have decided to replace it - with it just being a 600x600 single rad it's not exactly pushing the...

Hi folks, Does anyone know of a guide for skirting boards? In my flat I currently have skirting board with plastic housing on top of them which have electrical wires in them In other parts of my flat I have skirting board with plastic housing beside them which have central heating...

Hi Folks, Just recently moved into a new flat that an old person had and am finding wee problems here and there as I go along… I noticed last night that there is a small leak under the kitchen sink. It seems to drip quite bad when the sink is full of water and when draining off. It...

hi, can anyone give me advice on how to choose between differrent types of internal doors? I was looking for some nice doors for my flat renovation project and was a bit suprised to find out the prices of hardwood doors! So i had a look at B&Q and they had some white doors for about...