kitchen

Hi Everyone, Any advice would be appreciated! I have recently had a kitchen installed and I am currently in talks with the installation company as the finish of the kitchen is not great. I need some advice regarding the laminate worktop joints. The builder used colour fill in the...

Hi Chaps and Chapesses, The window fitters jumped onto the kitchen worktop and dented the stainless steel draining board quite badly. They came today to change the sink as it was not possible to panel beat it from the underneath to get the large dent out. As the old sink lifted off there was...

Hey All, I'm looking at getting onto the property ladder in the Yorkshire area and as times are a bit uncertain in the property market I'm looking at getting a 'dooer-upper' that I can do up while living there to then move onto a larger house with a larger deposit. I was just wondering if you...

Title says it all. If you could buy a 2nd hand kitchen would you? Why or why not? Same goes for bathroom units (shower trays, toilets, sinks etc). I'm really interested in the area because it's a huge source of landfill waste in the UK. From the ones that I've seen online eg Used Kitchen Hub...

Hi, I'm new to this forum hopefully I'm not posting this in the wrong thread . I want to use part of the 32mm worktop in the utility room to lift up to facillitate the chest freezer [ I'm tight on space so want to be able to lift the worktop to be able to open the freezer lid] I would like to...

I've cut a doorway for my kitchen, the idea is to get the biggest door possible to let max light in. The width of the opening is 35.5 inches approx, and the height from floor to bottom of the lintel is 80 inches. I was hoping to get a bit more in there than a standard 30 inch door. A 33 inch...

Hi All, We are having our new kitchen installed next week but unfortunately the cooker hood is positioned right under the new RSJ therefore it cant be vented straight out. Instead of changing the design i was hoping to use the MANROSE 225 X 25MM kit and run it flat against the wall, come around...

Hi All, apologies in advance if any lingo is not right. I am in a new build, the kitchen has a 3 gang light switch with 2 operating the kitchen ceiling lights and the 3rd feeding into a junction box underneath a kitchen cupboard. I want to use the 3rd switch via the junction box to set up LED...

Hey, Short version. What's the best eggshell colour match paint for kitchen cabinets? Long version. I've cleaned, sanded and primed (with zinnisser) my previously painted kitchen cabinets. We now want to paint the cabinets with an eggshell dark blue, found the colour we like with valspar, but...

Hi all, I have a blocked kitchen waste pipe (shared by the sink, dishwasher and washing machine). Water was leaking out underneath the cabinet at the concrete floor level. I have dismantled the cabinet and PVC waste pipes down to the hole in the concrete floor. The PVC pipe just came straight...

Hello can someone help with this question I got Old built in oven and separate hob both hardwired in only old oven broke. Got new one but is got 13amp plug on. Can I cut off plug and hardwired is into where my hob and my old oven was. Because got no 3pin plug behind cooker space Photo is...

Hi My dad and I installed a new kitchen tap from Screwfix today. We have an awkward cold water pipe location under the sink that causes the tail to bend due to the basin being in the way. Will an almost 90 degree angle in the tail cause problems later on? It was kinked further up initially and...

Hi All, Just had a new kitchen fitted and am wanting white gloss acryllic splashback panels above the worktop. I have already put a white glass splashback behind the gas hob. There seems to be such a variation in price between places selling these acrylic splashbacks. Any advice on what...

Hi there My mate has a takeaway & the kitchen vinyl flooring has some patches which needs repairing. He has spare leftover vinyl which he plans to cut to size & stick on… The question is which substance should he buy as the adhesive please? TIA, appreciate quick responses. If it’s in the...

Just moved into a new house, where the previous owner was a bit of a DIY buff, where he did things not quite right. Trying to work out the most dangerous/problematic bits, so I know what to fix first and I've found the sink plumbing look really wrong. I wanted to check with people that this is...

Morning! Happy Christmas all. I'm hoping for some advice please. In our kitchen there is tiling on the walls, around the work tops and oven. These same tiles are also fixed to plastic covered boards covering up the boiler pipes (it was like that when we moved in). A while ago, these tiles fell...

In the kitchen of the house that I have bought, two rooms have been joined but the ceiling rises by upto 4.5 cm at one end of the room. The ceiling is in good condition but I want to take the eye away from this uneveness. Should I reboard it? If so, what would you use to level the ceiling up?

Hi, I've just ripped out the kitchen in the house I moved in to a few months ago . Behind the units on the external wall there's mold, but only low level. Some of the skirting was also rotten, and the some of the units were moldy on the back boards (inside and outside the carcass) I know the...

Hi, I'm fairly new to electrical work currently undergoing electrician qualifications, so only know the basics and was seeking some advice. My father-in-law recently moved into an old house and had a sudden power trip to his downstairs socket circuit that took ages to troubleshoot, and turns...

Hello. I want to replace this solid plate hob with a ceramic one. But there's not the prescribed 15mm of space between the oven and worktop - it's covered with a small wood panel that's started to fall down on one side. Is it possible to replace this with a ceramic hob? And if so, do the sizes...