Putting Up A Fixed Shelf Using Brackets
Hold the first bracket at its mark, check that its vertical with your spirit level and mark the fixing positions on the wall through the screw holes. Drill and plug the fixing holes, then screw the bracket into ... [... more]
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Drilling Holes In Walls
Masonry drill bits have a specially hardened cutting edge which allows them to cut through concrete lintels. They are sold singly, so its best to buy just the sizes you use regularly, and to replace them when they ... [... more]
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Putting Up Coving
With a helper, hold a length of the coving in the wall-ceiling angle and mark a pencil line on the wall along its top and bottom edges. Then use your pencil, straightedge (and spirit level for the wall line) to ... [... more]
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Laying Floor Tiles
If your cutting isnt too good and youve got gaps at the edges, hide them by pinning lengths of slim quadrant beading to the skirting boards all round the room. Prime and paint them first so that you dont risk ... [... more]
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Laying Sheet Vinyl
In a room with no obstacles such as a playroom you can lay out your vinyl like a carpet, trim it to size and use double sided tape to stick down the edges. In bathrooms, where there is often no room for manoeuvre you ... [... more]
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Painting Walls And Ceilings
Then draw it lightly across the bands to blend them together and finish off with light strokes in the original direction. Thats all there is to it. As with rollers, you might need to use a smaller pad or a ... [... more]
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Laying Woodstrip Flooring
On uneven timber floors, its best to put down a plywood overlay first to create a perfectly flat, stable surface. Measure, mark with a pencil and cut the boards to size as necessary, and fix them with screws driven ... [... more]
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Wood Working: Measuring, Marking & Cutting
Draw the saw back towards you gently three or four times, then start sawing for real with the saw blade at an angle to the wood surface. Level off the blade to finish the cut, letting it saw just into the base of the ... [... more]
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Stripping Wallpaper
To strip washable or painted wallpaper, you need a tool to perforate the surface coating and a steam stripper that will force steam through the coating and into the paste beneath. Fill the boiler of the steamer with ... [... more]
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Sanding A Floor
Inspect the floorboards thoroughly. Assuming that they arent too gappy and are all securely fixed down, the main priority is to remove any old tacks or staples, and to punch in the heads of all the fixing nails to a ... [... more]
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Papering Ceilings And Stairwells
With subsequent lengths, work up towards the landing, then down to the hall. When measuring for the lengths that go on the stairs, take the measurement for the next length from the edge of the previous one you hung ... [... more]
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Putting Up Curtains
If your window is spanned by a timber beam, make pilot holes with a bradawl and screw each track bracket into place. Use screws long enough to penetrate the plaster, (up to 18mm (3/4in) thick in old houses,) and ... [... more]
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