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Hi, I am looking for a decent pocket hole jig, which would be used a lot. The shortlist so far is Trend http://www.screwfix.com/p/trend-240mm-pocket-hole-jig/52132#product_additional_details_container UJK http://www.axminster.co.uk/ujk-technology-pocket-hole-jig-503726 Kreg...

Hi all, Has anybody used the above detector? I can't find any customer reviews. Thank you in advance

Hi, I bought an Ikea kitchen trolley with solid oak worktop and painted legs. The instructions say that the worktop has been treated with oil once in the factory. After mounting, I am supposed to apply several more coats of oil - every second day during the first week and every third day for...

Hi folks, We started refurbishing the house and took the radiators off so that the walls could be plastered and painted. Unfortunately we had to move to my MIL house due to her illness and couldn't go on with the project. The radiators have been off the walls for about an year. Is it...

I want to make a timber garden gate. Is it OK to buy the timber and make the gate now or shall I wait for a drier weather? The timber merchant stores the timber outside in the yard.

We tiles the floor (concrete) in the downstairs toilet. The walls are painted brick masonry. I am going to grout the floor this weekend. Shall I grout the joints between the walls and the floor or seal with silicone? Thank you in advance!

Hi guys! Do you do anything to protect the backboxes from being filled with plaster? Last time I had a room skimmed, the plasterer left all the backboxes half full, earth clamps were buried under an inch of plaster. Apart of being present while the plasterer skims, and cleaning the...

Hi, Some of the plaster around the window is cracked and unstable, so I knocked it off. There are 3 areas about 40 x 40 cm each. It is a cavity wall, brick masonry from the inside, rendered with black mortar and finished with some sort of plaster. What material shall I use to...

Hi, Are these notifiable jobs? 1) Changing a single to double socket in the kitchen 2) A new light in the pantry (with a door that opens in the kitchen) 3) New sockets in a dining room next to the kitchen, the door between them is removed and there is an arched opening...

Hi, I need an expert advise, hope somebody can help. There is a blister on one of the white gloss pannels of the bathroom cabinets. It came like this from the factory and the stupidest thing is i checked all the panels when they were delivered, niticed the bubble but thought it was the...

Hi, I am going to put timber cladding on the ceiling of my extension. The existing ceiling is a concrete slab (underside of the flat roof). There is a light in the middle of the ceiling, the cable is clipped to the concrete. Can I leave it where it is and cover with the cladding (the...

Hi, I read somewhere (in a book, not on this forum) that for a bathroom ceiling light DP pull cord switch should be used. Couldn't find such information here on the forum. What switch should be used? There is no extractor fan wired to it.

Hi, I am refurbishing my house and changing the old switches as part of the refurbishment. They are plastic surface mounted, I want to put flash switches in metal back boxes. It turned out there are back boxes behind the switches but they are old type - smaller than the ones I bought from...

Hi, I had my first experience with tiling today :) It goes well so far but I would like to ask the people with more experience - how do you spread the adhesive without making a mess. I did the first row of tiles, cleaned the excess adhesive around and on the tiles, then spread more...

Hi, How do you tile a wall floor to ceiling if there is a door? I can think of 2 options 1) Tile the wall on one side of the door, the top rows would go above the door to the other end of the wall. Then tile the wall on the other side of the door upside down, i.e. starting from the...

I've been looking for a drill attachment to chisel the walls for cables. Many people here recommend the Armeg SDS+ chisel. My question is - do I need both 30mm and 20mm? The Screwfix catalogue description is that 30mm is for installing cables and wires and 20mm extended version is for...

I took off the old tiles and some plastic panels in the bathroom. The walls are brick rendered with some very dark substance, which I was told is black mortar. It is quite solid with one horizontal crack on one of the walls. Shall I leave it in place? If so, shall I skim it before tiling?

1) Many people here advise to fit the bath first and then tile the walls around it. How do you protect the bath? I am going to tile floor to ceiling and even if I step in the bath there is no way to reach to the ceiling. Do you mean that I have to put a stepping ladder in the bath? :? 2)...