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Hi guys, I have an office building which really only consists of two rooms and a toilet. The building is quite simply two open floors with a single entrance/exit. Each floor/room is 15m x 5.5m I have no gas supply to the building and am being quoted astronomical amounts to get a gas...

Hi guys have been in a dilema for a while now. Been looking for a nice 24v SDS drill circa £150 on ebay even slightly used but turns out im going to have to pay a lot more for something decent with two batteries that actually work etc. I have however thought, what if i get the aforementioned...

Hi guys, few months ago i fit a complete bathroom in my house. Everything went fine, no probs, no leaks nothing. Was very proud of my job until I realised there was a water leak coming from the bath to the ceiling floor below. I opened the side of the bath and couldnt see any water leak...

Hi guys, I briefly discussed this ages ago when not really in the position of implementing a solution to heating my business premises. Everything said was not so much clear on my part hence the reesponses I was being given were not clear cut. Now that I have been up and running since March I...

Hi guys, I have 7 1 AMP cameras and was wanting to know what the cheapest method of powering them would be. Now I have seen these power supplies from places like Screwfix, would you recommend them, individual adaptors or something else? I am running cat5e cable to the cameras and have the...

Hi guys, I have a telewest phone line coming into my building. I have a master phone socket where both slots 2 and 5 are occupied by white/blue and blue cores from the main line and also the alarm wire going to the alarm control box. So basically each of the two slots has two core kroned in...

Right guys, I have tried a few different heaters and to be honest they do squat all. I have two large rooms, one upstairs and one downstairs, both of which need heating. I tried small fan heaters, but they were useless, just about got heat from them when I stand next to them. Then I tried...

Hi guys, been looking for a contemporary heater for my sisters house, the guest room to be specific. Been looking at these wall mounted/wall hung electrical heaters but from other peoples experiences they are rubbish as heaters and dont quite warm the room up. Likewise been looking...

Reason I ask is that many retailers, even DIY retailers such as Screwfix always have cheap alternative tools for those who cannot afford the real deal. But what the customer gets is a rotten piece of kit. From experience I have always had a secondary power tool to most of my branded tools for...

Hi guys, some of you give me some advice before on this topic. I ended up using normal faceplates that come with the modules at the time however now i need to use MK faceplates for defo in order to match the rest of the double sockets etc and was wondering which faceplates these modules would...

Hi guys, i have been looking for a while. The problem i have is that most are well over priced as you guys im sure would agree I find some but have rubbish build quality and have recently realised how good and robust the black and decker toolboxes are. Sadly I missed out on a B&Q deal...

Hi guys, I am getting carpet fit at my premises and have hit a hurdle. I have this staircase: Basically I am wondering what on earth is to be done with the first 3 steps where they stick out beyond the string by about an inch. Would nosing look good on here or should carpet be wrapped...

Hi guys i have the following opening to the 1st floor. I am planning on getting carpet put in and as you can see have ply board the floor. The ply was screwed down with many more screws than normal as the old floor boards had a fair few knots and cause uneveness. Nevertheless I now...

Hi guys I have this Heat Store water heater, you know one of those smaller water heaters to warm just a little tea area sink and a toilet basin next door. Here is a photo: Basically what happens is, when the heater is switched on, after around 5 mins the big Brass "thing" with the earth...

Hi guys, I have some Ronseal 2 pack wood filler. Recently I used it to fill gaps between skirting on external joints. When rubbing down it was pretty straight forward and looked the part once finished. Now I was using the same wood filler to fill some screw holes. I left the filler a little...

Basically I drylined walls with metal stud walls. When the guys were fitting the metal studs they encorporated a square frame for the consumer unit and built around it leaving me with a nice square opening to put a small access door. Now the problem is this, the door i have made is made from...

Hi guys, two days ago I mixed cement with sand to fill some space on the floor approx 1 x 0.2 meter and approx 1.5 inch in depth The area was very small. I know people say mix 3 part sand with 1 part cement. I preferred 1 part cement to just under 2 part sand however two days have done by and...

Hi guys, I have these cat5e ftp keystone jacks and was wanting to know how to fit these to mk LogicPlus dual faceplates. MK tell me they dont do adaptors for their faceplates and the supplier i am getting these from has adaptors but for their own faceplates and cannot guarantee they will fit the...

Hi guys, i used Unibond mega grip to fix my skirintg, in most places infact all places except one wall the skirting is fine. This one wall, the skirting has pulled away, can someone offer some advice please. I dont know why its done this, helllppp

Hi guys, I fit some skirting yesterday and it was more of a pain in the backside than i expected. Basically where my wall met the floor, the angle was not 90 degrees hence none of the skirting actually sat 100% correctly although it looked fine to the naked eye. The problem I had was for example...