I have just taken up French polishing as a hobby and would like to know if it is best to sand down timber with a sander or by hand. If the former, which would be the best type of sander, rotary or...
Can anyone suggest a product I can use to clean a natural (not polished) cemetery headstone. Its york stone, and is laid flat down on the ground, not upright. The stone itself has gone dark and dirty...
What is the position if a neighbour disposes of garden rubbish using a metal incinerator and only 4' from a party wooden fence? It was pointed out to him the dangers of the situation but he just...
How do you get rid of moles in the house? On two separate occasions we have seen it run across our living room. A mouse trap would be useless. Any ideas?
Can you still get seats thats fixings are pitched at 9" all the ones at my local Diy store are a nominal of 6 1/2" with another 1/2" play either side in like a t-slot way. Surely all loos are not this...
I have a problem with a potterton profile 50e boiler that is installed in my girlfriends house. A couple of months back the boiler started firing up erractically and eventualy wouldnt fire at all. A...
Our recently purchased gas fire in the wall has gone mad and making a constant bleeping noise . It has a remote and I cannot see how to stop the sound. It should only bleep when we turn on th fire . I...
I moved house in August and inherited a nice garden pond complete with 6 goldfish I have been feeding them and watching them grow since. The pond is now frozen over the fish seem to be quite happy...
Hi we have a standard three bedroom house with full central heating run from a boiler to an emersion heater and a gas cooker, the problem is if we use the gas fire in the living room and the cooker it...
It's not draining completely, had this problem once before and consulted the manual which showed us, by pressing a certain combination of programmes it would resolve the problem, and it did....
i just bought a dress from ebay but the colour's not right. I want to dye it but it's 100% silk and says dry clean only. is there a way of dying it without damaging the material?
I have a double-glazed bay window in the main sleeping bedroom of my house. I have noticed that every panel in this window is soaked with condensation in the morning, especially so during this current...
As a child we used to have parafin heaters as Calor gas wasn't allowed. Does anyone know where you can get parafin nowadays as I haven't seen it for ages?
If I want to replace damaged fencing with a hedge between mine and my neighbours garden, do I have to 'fence-off' the boundary in some way whilst the hedging grows?
I finally got around to cleaning this yesterday- the white frilly thing in the machine. It was GROSS and I kept running it under the tap and eventually had to get a stick to remove all the mud-like...