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Can anybody advise please on the above subject. I have a kitchen built partly into roofspace, with sloping walls etc. It has been necessary to install false walls that have been made of heavy chipboard, otherwise the slope would have been down to about 2ft. The electric points have been...

Having carried out a lot of refurbishment to our old kitchen we would like to fit an upstand around the back our newly fitted worktops. Unfortunately there are electric points that are only 6 cms above the worktop, not leaving enough room for a standard size upstand. In spite of this it...

I have checked out all the relevant safety aspects regarding connection for the above before proceeding with the purchase. It is only a simple single oven with a maximum of 2.8Kw. A switched fused connection will be used to replace the previous 13amp socket, but on unpacking the appliance I...

We have a ceramic hob with a separate electric oven beneath, both of which are supplied from a 30 amp cooker circuit from the domestic board. These were already installed in our flat before we bought it. The Hob is hard wired to a cable provided for the purpose, and the oven has a separate...

Anybody know whatever happened to quality paintbrushes that let you get a good finish ? I don't mind paying for a good brush, but I have yet to find any worth buying. Even those that are sold as SUPERIOR, and consequently cost more, still bear more resemblence to a bunch of twigs than a...

I have recently replaced the kitchen sink together with the monoblock mixer tap for which the mains and hotwater feeds were turned off. The spurs that supply the washing machine from beneath the sink were also turned to the OFF position using the usual red and blue isolators to prevent...

I have a heater as above, which has been in use for some years, and have recently had a very slow dripping from what appears to be the overflow outlet from the pressure relief valve. I have turned the valve on and off, releasing a flow to try to clear it, but it just returns to slow dripping...

I have used some M8 threaded rod for fixing some floating shelves, and it seems sensible to use some filler when finally pushing the shelves onto the support bolts. Not sure if mastic would be the right filler or weather some harder adhesive might be more suited. It would make removing them a...

When re-connecting the water feeds it would be easier of course to replace the solid pipes with flexible - but I wonder if removing the rigidity of the old fixed copper pipes will allow the sink too much flexing when the new tap is fitted. It is difficult to know if the steel of the sink is...

I am about to replace our old worktops and we have been viewing all the usual DIY stores for choice. Would you believe it !!! Whilst most of the worktops available are 40mm my wife has chosen a cheaper 28mm one as her preference. I wonder if they are as durable in the first place. I cannot...

I am about to replace our old worktops and we have been viewing all the usual DIY stores for choice. Would you believe it !!! Whilst most of the worktops available are 40mm my wife has chosen a cheaper 28mm one as her preference. I wonder if they are as durable in the first place. I cannot...