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Tools you need for laying a laminate floor 29 Dec 2012 | 06:59 pm
The tools you need for laying a laminate floor include many of the items you’ll find in your household toolkit, such as a hammer, saw, and tape measure. Some power tools are also handy such as a jigsa...
Electric screwdrivers 22 Dec 2012 | 11:17 pm
Electric screwdrivers, or cordless screwdrivers as they are also called, are basically the smaller versions of cordless drills. Although they are much more lightweight in both size and power in compar...
Drill bits for wood 9 Dec 2012 | 08:09 pm
Drill bits for wood are essential components of any DIY toolkit, and although there are many different drill bit designs on the market, you only really need three types to deal with the majority of yo...
How much is a new bathroom? 1 Dec 2012 | 09:30 pm
Working out how much a new bathroom is going to cost can seem like a complicated calculation, as the final price tag is dependent on so many factors, but if you break down the whole job into its compo...
Drilling into porcelain tiles 26 Nov 2012 | 07:37 pm
Drilling into porcelain tiles is a lot trickier than drilling holes in ceramic tiles as porcelain is a much harder material. Therefore rather than using a standard spear shaped tile bit that is used f...
Handsaws 18 Nov 2012 | 11:30 pm
Handsaws will always be important tools in any DIY toolkit, in spite of the fact that you can now buy a power saw for almost every cutting need. Handsaws are clearly much cheaper than their powered co...
Window locks 11 Nov 2012 | 05:07 pm
Window locks are an essential part of your home security ‘system’. UPVC windows normally have locking points integral to the window design, as do many designs of modern wooden window. However, older w...
Buying an angle grinder 3 Nov 2012 | 03:38 pm
Buying an angle grinder is not the first power tool purchase that comes to mind for most DIY enthusiasts but once you’ve owned one, and although it tends to get pretty infrequent use, you do tend to b...
Manual tile cutters 29 Oct 2012 | 06:06 pm
A good manual tile cutter is pretty vital to a tiler’s toolkit and although you may need an electric tile cutter, or tile saw, for making tricky cuts, a manual cutter is the ideal tool for making quic...
How to fix a shed roof 22 Oct 2012 | 02:34 pm
How to fix a shed roof is a topic that can certainly range in extremes, from simply tacking back down some loose felt, to discovering the ply or building boards (roof sheets) used to make up the struc...
