How-To Guides
Below is a list of guides to many jobs both inside and outside the home. Simply click on the title you require and this will take you to a photographic step-by step guide.
- Household toolkit
- Household fixings kit
- Screws or nails?
- DIY safety
- Fixing into masonry walls
- Fixing into hollow walls
- Fitting a smoke alarm
- Fitting a carbon monoxide alarm
- Planning a kitchen
- Fitting kitchen base units
- Fitting kitchen wall units
- Fitting kitchen unit doors and handles
- Fitting kitchen unit plinth
- Fitting kitchen unit cornice and pelmet
- Fitting a kitchen worktop
- Fitting a kitchen sink and taps
- Plumbing in a dishwasher or washing machine
- Painting kitchen units
- Adding a splashback
- Changing a kitchen tap
- Changing a kitchen worktop
- Repairing a wooden kitchen worktop
- Repairing a laminate kitchen worktop
- Repairing a kitchen drawer handle
- Repairing a kitchen unit hinge
- Unblocking a kitchen sink
- Fixing leaking kitchen taps
- Planning a bathroom
- Fitting a toilet
- Fitting a basin and taps
- Fitting a wall mounted basin
- Fitting a bath and taps
- Changing a toilet seat
- Changing bath taps
- Fitting an under basin towel rail
- Unblocking a toilet
- Fixing leaking bathroom taps
- Cutting copper pipe
- Making a compression joint
- Making a push-fit copper joint
- Making a push-fit plastic joint
- Fitting guttering
Preparing Surfaces for Decoration
- Preparing ceilings, walls, and woodwork
- Filling large holes in solid walls
- Filling large holes in hollow walls
- Filling small holes in hollow walls
- Decorating fillers
- Stripping paint
- Stripping wallpaper
- Sealing damp stains
- Removing mould
- Using a paintbrush
- Using a paint roller
- Using a paint pad
- Painting a room
- Painting exterior walls
- Painting exterior wood
- Varnishing wood
- Staining wood
- Waxing wood
- Oiling wood
- Where to start wallpapering
- Wallpapering a room
- Dealing with lifting wallpaper
- How to wallpaper a feature wall
- How to wallpaper a chimney breast
- Wallpapering around a window
- Hanging a wallpaper border
- Fixing loose floorboards
- Laying hardboard
- Laying plywood
- Laying self-levelling compound
- Laying wood and laminate floors
- Laying hard tile floors
- Laying vinyl floor tiles
- Laying carpet tiles
Mouldings, Skirtings and Architraves
- Fitting coving
- Fitting ceiling roses
- Fitting door surrounds
- Fitting skirting board
- Fitting architrave
Shelving and Curtain Poles, Pictures and Mirrors
- Fitting twin slot shelves
- Fitting batten shelves
- Fitting bracket shelves
- Fitting floating shelves
- Fitting curtain tracks
- Fitting curtain poles
- Hanging a picture or mirror
- Hanging a mirror with mirror screws
- Mirror brackets
- Fitting an interior door
- Interior door frames
- Fitting a door lining
- Changing a door handle
- Changing cupboard handles
- Replacing a cylinder lock
- Replacing a five lever lock
- Ftting a mortice door bolt
- Fitting hinge bolts
- Fitting a door viewer
- Fitting a door closer
- Easing a sticking door
- Fixing a rattling door
- Strengthening hinge fixings
- Filling old hinge positions
- Fitting a hasp and staple for padlocks
- Changing a mortice window fastener
- Changing a window stay and pins
- Fitting a casement window lock
- Fitting a casement stay lock
- Changing a locking upvc window fastener
- Fitting a sash window press bolt
- Insulating a loft
- Fitting a water butt
- Making compost
- Fitting a brush draught excluder
- Fitting an external draught excluder
- Fitting door escutcheons
- Fitting double-glazing film
- Erecting a fence on soft ground
- Erecting a fence on concrete
- Building a pergola
- Building a shed
- Adding trellis to a fence
- Building a greenhouse
- How to lay a deck
- Wooden garden arches
- Maintaining a fence
- Maintaining decking
- Laying a patio
- Laying a gravel path
- Laying a paver path
- Laying a paving slab path
- Replacing a broken slab
- Repointing patio slabs
- Laying stepping stones
Miscellaneous