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    Slim Drill For Corner Of Window Recess ?

    I needed to fit some roller blinds, fitted first lot today. Found my own drill was too wide in the body for me to drill where I wanted in the corner of the window recess in the end I had to go where I could. Bit of a gap at top of blinds now, wondered if there is a slimer drill you can use...
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    New Carpet Fitted Most Of Skirting Got Damaged

    Ive just had new carpet fitted in 3 rooms, Ive noticed that in fitting it they have managed to damage pretty much most of the skirting where just above the carpet line looks like scrapping marks and requires repainting would you expect this or would be it be due to poor fitting ? All the...
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    Getting Some Old Rads Taken Away

    I need to get rid of 3 old house radiators nothing fancy just stelrad ones. Only have a small car and cant fit them in that, local council wants £55 to take them away, not been able to get hold of scrap metal company yet. Generally though are rads like this worth anything scrap or should I...
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    Building Regs On Rendering

    My neighbour who is a protected tennant, has decided to put a rear ground floor extension and re-build his garage. He has done this all in breeze blocks, I thought he was going to render it but it turns out he doesnt plan to. The extension unrenderd looks really rough, someone mentioned there is...
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    Blending / touch up Paint

    Hi, I had some room painted 2 months ago, it needs some touch ups. I tried using the same brand/colour of paint buts it seems to dry slightly lighter, any tips on avoiding having to paint the whole wall ? Cheers
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    Relocating old capped gas pipes

    My house used to have gas fires in each room before the previous owner removed them, however when they removed them they left about an 1.5inch of the pip capped above the floor board. Is it alot of work to change this so the cap is below the floor board ? Is this a job for a Corgi person ...
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    Boiler Knocking And Frequent Rad Bleeding

    Hi, I have all my rads replaced and moved about a month ago everything was fine at first. I noticed the boiler now once warmed up has a constant low knocking sound and the rads upstairs all need a big bleed, bolier still noisey after this. Plumber drained down the system twice and added...
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    HW and CW Slow To Reach Good Temp

    Hi, I've just had all my radiators replaced and moved from internal walls to outside walls, most of the single panel rads were replaced with double panel, by making them double I was effectively adding 6 new single panel 600mm x 1600mm rads to they system. The boiler an Ideal Classic max BTU...
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