I’m not gonna say that successful DIY is absolutely about careful planning, but let’s just say on a scale of 1-10 it rates about 9. In over 50 years of …

It’s been a strange week, at the beginning of it, I was in my local butchers buying our meat for the week,  it’s one of the best butchers around, Alan …

I know January is still winter time, but when the skies are as clear and blue as they are today, and the sunshine is pouring through the window directly onto …

There are some of you out there that dislike Christmas, and find the paraphernalia of the season drives you crazy! Personally I love Christmas, I’m not too keen on some …

Altering, or changing a domestic electrical installation, is not something I would generally recommend to DIY’ers, but attempting a simple alteration, can be successfully completed, providing you are a “competent …

  After 40+ years as a builder, I would say that the Victorian period for building is probably my favourite. That doesn’t mean I dislike other periods, and I do …

Although I’m desperately hanging on to the last vestiges of a poor summer (optimistically still in shorts and flip-flops)! the leaves are beginning to fall, the nights are drawing in …

It’s strange how a toothache often occurs at the weekend, when dentist surgeries are closed, and you wind up spending six hours in A&E allowing a dental student license to …

I was recently forced to unpick some refurbishment work that was carried out only ten years ago!  There were issues with the plumbing and heating, even though it was a …

If you want to jazz up the lighting to your kitchen or dining room with a simple trick, and one that won’t break the bank, why not replace the existing …

Returning to the theme of water based problems, and how tricky it can be to resolve them, I’ve been guilty just like anybody else, of at first trying to ignore …

One of the most repeated problems I am asked to resolve, is the tricky problem of black spot, most commonly found in the bathroom, and kitchen, where exists the ideal …