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Hi, I have just boarded up an old built in wardrobe to give us more space in the bathroom when I knock through into it. I taped the board edges using joint filler and pva'd about 12 inches down each side where the original board was painted and also the new board I put in. The problem I am...

Thanks for the replys so far. Yep the fence is mine, the front wall of the worshop will be right by the rain water down pipe, and regarding the party wall act doesn't the property next door have to be a certain distance to our boundary to apply? as we have there garden next to us and not there...

What part of Hampshire are you?

Hi, I am just drawing up some rough plans of a 8M X 2.2M brick work shop to show the local authority that I want to build onto the side of our house and out to the boundary. The fence on that side is ours and I plan to remove the fence and build the workshop with a parapet style roof with no...

Thanks for all the views, ended up buying the materials from Eurocell. All I will say is get a couple of quotes from two branches, one Eurocell branch was £500 more than the other for exactly the same order :roll: , there loss for being too greedy.

If your timber is 100% sound would you cap over your fascia??. I have the budget to do total replacement and thats what I was going to do but as our houses were built with 25mm treated timber fascia's they haven't rotted at all. A few fascias suppliers have said save the money and cap over.

I have found lots of fascia supplies selling Swish direct.

Thanks for the reply's so far, there is a Eurocell branch in Southampton near where I work so I will probably pop in. I had a look on there online shop but some of the bits I require they don't do online and when I called them they recomended doing the whole order at Southampton. Also have...

Hi, just wondered if anyone could recomend a good make of facia/soffits and I need rosewood colour. I do have a local supplier that does Flowplast but as I am a plumber I don't rate much of there waste ranges. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

One of the doors has to be cut down for our cupboard under the stairs so I may have a go with different products on the off cut. As far as I know Magnet also have there doors and at first they priced matched with Wicks but before I collected I noticed Wicks had 25% off oak veneer doors until...

I have just spoken to XL joinery as they make the doors for Wicks/ Travis etc and they recomended staying with the water based products. I guess your sanding sealer will seal the door before you wax it though.

Hi, I have just bought some oak veneer doors from Wicks and the finnishing info that comes with them says you should use a water based varnish or wood stain. As they don't mention the use of any oils, waxes or solvent based varnish do you think these could effect the veneer in any way?. Any...

Thanks for the reply, the boundary would be the fence between me and my neighbour, he has a shed up to the fence on his side to access from his side would be dificult anyway. I was thinking of building about a foot away from the fence so any small amount of roof overhang or guttering would still...

Hi, we are buying another house and at present they have converted the whole garage into a utility and playroom. For storage they have put a shed down the left hand side of the property, there is still access down the right hand side to the garden. What I am thinking is remove the shed, put...