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Best Place To Get Cushions Made?
I need to have some replacement cushion covers made (they are quite large) for my houseboat. Some of them are not typical square/rectangular covers. Where would be the best & cheapest place to have them made for me? Thank you
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Would Currys match their online price instore?
I asked this on other thread as well, but maybe you can help as well. Just saw a washer dryer I want to buy on Curry's website at ~£364 and instore price is ~£450. I would rather get it from the store as it means I don't need to pay delivery and wait for it at home all day. Does anyone know if they would match the online…
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How to get a straight line?
Hi Currently decorating my daughters room. Plan is 3 walls pink, one wall lilac paint on plaster. How is the best was to get a straight line between the 2 colours? I was planning on using masking tape but it seems to bring the paint off when i remove it? oh i should have saif ive tried free hand and it aint the greatest!!
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Where can I buy Wood Shims?
I'm in the process of fitting a new door frame and I need some wood shims (little woodern wedges of wood) to take up the space between the hole and the frame. I've tried B&Q and Wickes etc but nowhere seems to sell them. Does anyone know where I might be able to buy wood shims or something similar.
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Fitting new gas fire and fireplace
We are currently decorating our living room and are having a completely new fireplace. We have been quoted £250 to fit the marble hearth, marble back panel, new gas fire and surround. Does this sound about right? We were quoted £85-100 just to fit the fire then it went up to £250 to do the whole lot. The pipework from the…
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Chimney problem
Hi, We have a leak in our roof, a roofer has been up and checked and he says the problem is the chimney needs repairing. Just wondering who is responsible as we live in a terrace house and this chimney is actually our neighbours??
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Earthing in new plastic sockets
I hope somebody can help. Over the weekend I have replaced some pretty old plastic plug sockets with some new plastic ones i bought at screwfix. The old double sockets had one terminal each for live/neutral/earth. Each terminal was wired up to the relevant wire from both the circuit cables (i.e. both live cables into live…
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Tricity Bendix electric cooker
Can anyone point me in the right direction...? I have a Tricity Bendix cooker... electric and the other week when I turned it on, it tripped the electrics. So I went in the shed and turned the power back on... and everything came on ok... However, when I came to use the oven, it wont heat up.. I can hear the fan whirring…
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House sign - weather protection?
I've just put up a new house sign. It a metal plate with the house name in green and white paint. The sort of signs that you see at the likes of Timpsons etc. I replaced a previous sign that had weathered. It was the same sort of thing, but some of the paint had peeled off. Is there anything that can be used to protect the…
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Wood rotting on our porch, worth tidying up?
Hi We have a wooden panelled porch, and while we want to get it replaced with a nice clean UPVC one to match our windows, we're not quite there with the funds.... in advance of that, and given that the current paint chip and wood rot is making our house look manky, is it worth us cleaning it up in some way? i am not…
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Putting A Video On To A Dvd
Can anyone tell me if I can get a treaured home video put onto a dvd.It is very precious to us for sentimental reasons so realy wouldnt want to have to mail it off somewhere.Thankyou.
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How much??
Bit ambiguous but if all the donket work was done how much would it cost for someone to : 1. Fit a bathroom 2. Fit a kitchen 3. plaster 5-6 rooms I have heard that there are some tradesmen that will work for £100 a day at just doing specific tasks. ie plaster walls. All they do is put it on you mix put all the bonding…
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Help! Bathrom WOES!
Sorry to be a bore as I'm sure this question must have been asked a million times before. I live in Thanet and need a new bathroom suite and am on a very tight budget. Eassentially I have £1000 to do it all. I can get a suite and end panel for £200 at screwfix but to have it fitted and to have approx 12x2msq of wall…
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Satinwood paint - water or solvent based?
Hi Does anyone know which covers best or is there no difference? Thank you, Mart
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Leccy Question : lighting re-wire
just found out that we do not have any earth's in our lighting circuit. Supposedly quite common in older properties, but means that we have limited choice over fittings etc. (Can i just earth a metal fitting to screw in the back of the wall box?) What would be involved in a re-wire (lighting only) ...how much would this…
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Concrete Topping?
I would like my front path re-doing as the old tarmac is breaking up. I was told that the cheapest way would be to have it concreted and then have some sort of topping placed into the almost cured base to make it more attractive. The path is on an incline. Does anyone have any experience of applying some sort topping, ie…
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Painting Moulded Internal Doors
Looking for some advice please ! Our house has 6 panel moulded doors all through, they seemed to have been pre-finished in white gloss. Since I've redecorated, and the woodwork around them is now very white, the doors look a bit off white/yellowed. Can you paint these things ? If so, how do you prepare them and do you use…
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Fridge Freeezer In Cupboard
Is it possible to put my fridge freezer in a cupboard where my central heating boiler is. It would be placed about 16 inches away from the boiler. Please advise.
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central heating running
is it better to have central heating running throughout the day on a lower setting or is it better on /off on higher settings?
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beanbag
Hi there, may be a strange request but i want to make one of those large bean bags (human size length!) Could anyone suggest where i can get cheap material and suggest a website that sells cheap foam? thanks hali
