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Hi all I have recently bought a ceiling light to replace a pendant but I am unsure how to connect it since it has a few more wires than usual :D Could anyone explain how I need to wire up the new fitting in simple terms. The new light has 3 wires, one earth, one live and one neutral. The...

Hi all I removed all my existing plaster and render all the way down to bare brick in my bedroom and I am going to add 2 coats of render and 2 coats of multi finish plaster. I have put on a 1st coat of render last weekend with a damp-proofing agent in it (renderguard gold). Now reading on...

Hi I wonder if anyone can help me - I needed to remove a section of plasterboard become there was a leak from the roof and the plasterboard was damaged. The leak is now fixed and I noticed that there was no insulation behind the plasterboard so before I replace and reskim the plasterboard I...

Hi all,my current guttering is old cast iron but it has got holes in it so I am looking at replacing it with plastic guttering. The current cast iron guttering is attached with rise & fall brackets. The new guttering I have found is 120mm wide from B&Q but they do not sell the brackets - the...

I bought an old cottage 1800's - last year and it was suffering from damp so I installed a dpc and it stopped the rising damp however the cottage also suffered badly from penetrating damp in the walls. The cottage is brick built and painted. I bought some white Santex smooth masonary paint...

hi all I have had a leak next to the chimney breast of my house which has resulted in water coming in through the plasterboard and running down the wall in my bedroom which in turn has made the paint bubble and come off see pics. I think I have fixed the leak I think it was either a hole...

I am painting the exterior of my house and I have got to the last part,however there are overhead power cables that go to a point on the side of my house on the part I want to paint. What I wanted to ask is I need to use a ladder to paint this part of the house,so can electricity jump from the...

Hi I have a wall that I want to scim but the wall in question is prone to a little damp in the winter. I think I heard somewhere that you can add an additive to the plaster mix before scimming that will prevent the damp coming through to the surface so the finish will stay fine. Is this...

Hi I wonder if you can help me I have 5 double radiators approx 1100 x 600 and a towel radiator in the bathroom and I just would like to know if my boiler an ideal classic nf40 has enough output to easily run this? The reason I ask is that not all of my radiators get fully warm the bathroom...

Hi I wonder if someone can help me my bathroom extractor fan recently stopped working so I bought a new one a emcovent EVSLIM4T with timer - the old extractor did not have a timer. The thing is I do not know which wires go to which the wiring from the house to the fan are as follows 2...