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    Laminate Door Threshold

    Hi there, I hope some of you experts can help me out. Any advice would be much appreciated. I will be laying laminate in the next few days in the hallway. I have undercut all architrave and skirting is all off. My problem is I ordered some thresholds with the floor as i need to go around 3...
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    Thistle Undercoat vs Thistle Bonding

    Hi guys, I hope someone can help. I had some plastering done by my builder. He left it smooth but on 1 of the walls there is a bow out by about 10mm. Due to other problems I have had with him I told him to leave the job. I just basically want to fill out that 10mm bowed board. It’s about 500mm...
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    Concerned about cabling running behind polystyrene plasterboard

    Hi there, I hope someone can give me advice. I had my garage converted by a so called professional builder. he has battened a breeze block cavity and put polystyrene backed plasterboard onto the battens before plastering. Please see images attached. The electrician drilled through the battens...
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    Boarding and Plastering

    Hi guys, I hope someone can help me. I had my garage converted, it has been boarded and plastered. I have quite a few concerns. 1. The builder had to board over a fuse box supply. He has cut out around the fuse box for me to make some framing, but where he has boarded over the boxing for the...
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    Plastering around consumer unit

    Hi there, Wonder if anyone could help. I recently had my garage converted. Builder has tried to box in my consumer unit with a view to putting a door on the front. Looks really messy and there is no way a door will sit flush on it. Can anyone advise of what I cold do with this to make it nice...
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    Garage Conversion

    Hi all, I hope someone can help. I am in the process of having our integral Garage converted. Our Lounge bay window is quite low. Do you think I should have the height of the brickwork matching the height of the bay window to keep it uniform and as if it was not an addition. Any advice would...
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    Mapei Ultracolor Plus grout for Outdoor Porcelain Paving

    I wonder if anyone could advise on the below please. I purchased the Mapei Ultracolor Manhattan Grey grout after reading all the good reviews on the Screwfix website. I bought 3 x 5kg bags of the Mapei Ultracolor for my outdoor porcelain paving. I mixed the product exactly as specified and...
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    Mapei Ultracolor grout for Porcelain Paving

    I wonder if anyone could advise on the below please. I purchased the Mapei Ultracolor Manhattan Grey grout after reading all the good reviews on the Screwfix website. I bought 3 x 5kg bags of the Mapei Ultracolor for my outdoor porcelain paving. I mixed the product exactly as specified and...
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    Outdoor porcelain slabs

    Hi guys, I wonder if someone can help please. Just finished some porcelain slabbing. Everything was perfect until I dropped my spade on a slab and it took a slight chunk out the corner of one. I managed to find the piece. I was thinking could I use a little sbr and cement to stick this piece...
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    Porcelain Paving

    Hi guys, I hope someone could advise me on some Porcelain paving. I want to lay a patio area. I have dug the area and layed MOT Type 1 with a 1:60 fall, wackered it all down. Now I have come across mixed reviews. Some lay it on a concrete base, others use a wet morter mix of 6:1 or stronger...
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    Pressure treated wood cupping

    Hi guys, wonder if anyone can help. I started doing some landscaping on my garden last year, doing raised beds etc. I got all my joints perfect, screwed into posts that are concreted in the ground. I have noticed this year certain areas the wood is cupped pretty bad. Placing them bark side...
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    Wallpaper problem

    Hi guys, Wonder if anyone could help. We bought some wallpaper Arthouse Suki Grasscloth effect. Same batch number and pattern numbers. It was a drop match pattern which was a bit of a task to match but finally got it all matched in the end and cut before installing. All installed by a...
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    Garage Conversion

    Hi there, I wonder if any of you guys could help. We are currently getting quotes for a garage conversion. We are looking to get a window put where the integral garage is at the moment. But have noticed there is no cavity tray above the existing garage door where the catnic is. I have attached...
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    Home Hub Matrix System

    Hi guys, I'm hoping someone could help on this complex question. A few years ago we moved into a new build and had this matrix system fitted by Home Hub Insallations. There is cat 6 wiring all around the home including speaker cable. The thing is we only had 3 tv's connected to it and now want...
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    Garage Conversion

    Hi there, Wonder if any of you guys can help. I want to convert my garage into a Home Office/Storage area. So the office would be at the front of the garage looking out of a window and perhaps 1/3rd of the garage at the back storage partitioned off with a stud wall. It is a Taylor Wimpey New...
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    Outdoor Light

    Hi there, I wonder if anyone could help. I have just replaced an outdoor light with an Up & Down Light, on the right hand side of the front door. Now the missis has said another light the other side of the front door would look good (she's always right). Now the light switch is right behind...
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    Strange sounds coming from new IDEAL logic heat boiler

    Hi guys, I wonder if anyone could help me. I went into the garage the other day and heard the boiler keep booting in about every 30 seconds. It seems to get upto temperature, turn off and then drop in temperature quite quickly, it then boots in to get back upto temperature and do the cycle all...
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    Old metric size radiator

    Hi guys, I hope you could help me. My mother in law is asking if this old type radiator could be replaced for a new Heated towel rail (like the chrome ones from screwfix).And was just wondering how easy this could be for a diyer? I want to work with the pipework that is there. is it best to get...
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    Gas Safe Engineer

    Hi guys wonder if you could help me.. My son is wanting to take one of those 8 week Gas Safe Engineer courses. Followed by 100 portfolio days working with a qualified engineer. At the end of it he will be has safe registered with an ACS qualification. Have any of you took such a course or...
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    Garden Makeover advice

    Hi guys, I wonder if any of you clever people could help. I have recently moved into a newbuild. Lawn is surprisingly good but on a sloped garden. I'm basically wanting to level it all out, but I have a few questions: 1. Would I be able to use a turf cutter to get up existing lawn, and after...
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