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Hi all, I think this should be quite a straightforward question. In my dining room I have a dimmer switch which controls a single pendant on the ceiling. I've just bought 2 new pendant lamps which I want to replace the existing single pendant. The 2 new pendants are to run off the single...

Thanks for the advice. It does come off relatively easily with a wood chisel. But it's a long boring job. I wish I'd cleaned up properly in the first place - then I would have finished by now. Oh well!!!

I know the tiles you're referring to. They're SUPPOSED to have a dusty appearance. I don't know how you might change that.

Could I perhaps sand it off?

I have begun retiling my kitchen floor in a diamond pattern. I followed the advice I found in various places and laid all my full tiles first. I have let that set and I am now ready to cut and place the rest of the tiles. However - there is tile adhesive sticking out the sides of the full...

I intend to fully tile my bathroom but one of the walls is a stud partition wall. The tiles I intend to use are actually floor tiles. Is it ok to tile a stud partition wall or is it likely to fall down? All I know about the wall is that it isn't a brick wall. I was told by Topps that...

I'm not sure what a flush cone is but I'm guessing that installing it will mean moving the toilet in some way - or something bigger than I'm wanting to do right now. Where can I get a hold of the Denso tape?

I have an old toilet which I am going to be replacing in February when I have enough money. However - in the meantime it has suddenly started leaking out the back where it connects to the downpipe. This is spewing out water on every flush onto the Bathroom floor. I don't want a full scale...

Hi All, I am hoping to tile my new Kitchen floor using a pattern made up from 2 different sized tiles. To make matters worse I would also like this pattern on the diagonal. I have mocked the design up and it seems immediately clear to me that in order for the pattern not to slope against...

Unfortuantely that's not a possibility as they were very elderly and then he died and she doesn't know anything about it.

Hello everyone. I recently bought a house which has a relatively new Kitchen installed. I now want to make some changes to the kitchen but I cannot find out what the Kitchen style is. I don't know who manufactured it, the supplier or the range. How might I go about tracking the...

oh stop being such a girl

If you'd read my original posting then you'd see that I'm not really going to be doing the work. I'm going to be pushing barrows about full of rubble. I'm just trying to get as much knowledge about things because I'm interested. It isn't my day job. We're not building the Taj Mahal. I was only...

if it's on my exes house then it's bi-tchumastic :lol:

The wall is only single skin. If I use a padstone 440x215x100 isn't the 215 the width? in which case the padstone will stick out the side of the wall? Or is the 100 the width? or do you turn it on its side?

I spoke to the BO and he said that as I'm not getting my calcs done I need to put in padstones over more than 1 brick to support the oversized rsj. If I'd got a SE calc done he'd have been ok with engineering block. so your suggestion of going out 300 each side would make sense. I'm now...

Yes I'm going to get Building Control involved. I think the job is of the kind that they will have seen hundreds of times before so they should be able to give me an idea on the size of RSJ to have etc. The main thing I don't understand is how a padstone works if the supporting walls are...

There is a case recently of a guy who built a bungalow inside a big barn he had in a field. No one could see this house and so no one complained. At the end of the 4 years he then took down the barn and claimed that the council could do nothing because there had been no complaint...

Hi everyone, I've read all the posts in this forum and others regarding supporting walls / acros / strongboys / padstones as I want to undertake the removal of a wall in my bungalow. I think it is a straightforward job but I would like to double check some things and would really...