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Hi - I have an ambitious client who wants a 'floating' terrace like she's seen at Chelsea Flower Show. Basically it looks like a group of big white concrete slabs which overhang at the edges of the deck forming floating planes -presumably supported on masonry walls hiden underneath. I cant...

Hi - I am about to engage a builder to repoint the front of my house which is a 1925 semi , built in soft red bricls and lime mortar. Next-door have already had theirs repointed and it doesn't look good really so I want to avoid the same pitfalls. Basically their lime seems overly bright...

Hi - I have a timber ridge beam in a new build modern flat and I wanted a pendant light to emerge from the underside of the beam without a rose. The look was intended to be minimal. This meant drilling the beam and, I thought, connecting the pendant flex above the ceilng line somehow with a...

Hi - I have just chased-in some new wiring above the kitchen splashback. I now have to make good around the boxes and the finish has to be fairly good because I don't intend to tile over the lot. The socket fronts have to go down level, nice and flush on all sides etc. but I dont really want to...

Anyone know where I can source some 650 worktops? - not corian or solid wood - just ordinary laminate? Location is Ipswich Thanks

Hi - I am currently sorting out our tired old kitchen floor and have removed the units, the old laminate floor, plywood under-layer and some floorboards to sort out the plumbing/electrics. The old floorboards are about 150 wide and have bowed up a bit along the centres as they normally do -...

hi - I'm a new poster here so bear with me....! I'm fitting a new kitchen and (as I see many here discover), there is a lot of wiring to sort out first and this becomes involved... Basically the kitchen used to have one of those cooker supplies high on the wall ,which has been since been...