fixings

Hi, I'm attempting to tile a hip roof. What i can't work out is that some of the tiles when cut are not able to sit on a batten so just kinda rest on the overlap from the tile to the right. Inevitably they will slip so there must be some way of clipping these in place to prevent the tiles from...

Hi I'm trying to sort storage in a small space. I've built a floor to ceiling bookshelf perfectly filling an alcove and would like to mount a large mirror over some of it but am unsure what fixings to use. The mirror is roughly 40cm wide and 120cm long so neither as wide or tall as the...

Hi, I need to attach 2 X 3cm x 3.5cm Stainless Steel Pad Eye to the concrete wall at the back of my house to attach a rectangular shade sail The company where I bought the shade sail have a decent installation guide here but dont specify how you should fix the pad eyes to the house. The wall...

I've just bought some Screwfix 32mm, self drill metal plasterboard fixings branded EASYFIX, like below:- I have now used 9 of these in a plasterboard (Paramount) wall. 5 have proved impossible to install and have made a mess of the wall. This is a near 50% failure rate! The screws that...

Hi, this is my first post, please go easy on me! I spent the weekend building some Ikea kitchen cabinets for a small utility area I'm fitting out. Feeling very proud as I needed to modify them for the space, and the cut-down cupboards are great. Now I need to attach them to the wall. I tried...

I'm building a pair of pillars which will be filled with concrete for strength. I'm going to need to place bolts at the top of each to attach a steel joist that will span the gap between them. I'd like to use the kind of bolt that you put in place before you pour your concrete, as I understand...