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Have just fixed some smooth travertine tiles in my kitchen. Have been told that ivory colour grout is the best colour match. Can any one suggest both the most suitable colour for grouting travertine wall tiles and the best make. I used bal natural stone wall and floor white powdered...

I intend to re tile my bathroom which is quite small. I've been told that larger tiles in a small bathroom make the room feel bigger. However, i've also read the oppposite -that small tiles should be used in a small bathroom for the same reason.. Was about to buy some quite large tiles (...

Can I wire the flex from a cooker hood directly into an FCU or must I use a flex outlet and then run 2.5mm from that to the FCU? Cheers,

I've just replaced my plastic socket face plates with chrome ones . Where there has been a metal back box i've made an additional earth connection between the faceplate and the back box. I had a few plastic dryline boxes. i've been told that I don't need an addition earthing of the chrome...

I wanted to spur from a socket to a 13amp FCU and onto two additional in line single sockets. When I inspected the socket i wanted to spur from, it had two cables running into it but I felt it was a later installation than other sockets on the ring. I wondered if it might be an...

Ive been told that you can run more than one spur from a single socket providing you go through a 13A fcu. Is this correct? If so could I run, from a single socket above a kitchen worktop,(but through an FCU) a single socket to power a cooker ignition on a 3A plug, and also an additional...

The internal doors in my house are all size 28.5 x 80.25 / 726 x 2040 Im looking to replace the doors with white moulded, 6 panel, prefinished satin wood grain effect doors. B and Q / Wickes etc are full of them at around £25 - 30 each, but they dont supply the size I need. Can...

Im about to buy a laptop for home use ie internet ,music, WP, and the occasional game. Im considering the following three models Toshiba Equium A210-17I Toshiba A210-1AS Hewlett Packard (HP) Pavilion G6060EA They all currently retail around the £429 -£450 price range but im not...

I wanted to change a single wall socket to a double. If replacing the patress box with a dry line plastic one do i connect the earth to a connector strip left loose in the box? Because the connector strips come in different rating which one do I use? Thanks for any help.

I want to change a chrome plated dimmer (the sort where you touch a flush button and the light brightens and then darkens ) to a basic wall switch. It controls a single bedroom light. Took the face plate off ( revealing a metal patress box) but not a staightforward as other switches i've...

. Recently had two new tyres fitted on the front of my 02 Clio. Was driving down the motorway and mid journey I developed a major vibration through the steering wheel when traveling above 75-80mph, Took the car to another tyre fitter and asked for it to be balanced- He said that there was a...

Have got a 12 yr old Potterton Netaheat boiler. Pilot light not igniting, just sparks. Local corgi chap charged me £70 for call out and diagnostic and has said that to replace the white rogers gas valve will cost £490 which he then dropped to £450 when I said that i thought this was expensive...