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My roofline fascia boards are currently varnished but look dated and flaking in a few areas. What undercoat and topcoat is recommended? The wife would like the topcoat to be two tones of brown/chocolate colour so I was thinking I cannot use an off the shelf colour and may need to get a specific...

I would like to convert a section of my garage into an office and would like any advice on how best to go about it. - The garage is attached to the side of the house. - It already has an internal brick wall which partitions the garage into two sections; one for the car, and the other which is...

Bought a second hand Hormann canopy garage door to replace my old door. The Hormann came prehung on a wooden frame, which I have successfully bolted to the brickwork in garage. The frame is square to the brickwork, but you can see from the picture, the door doesnt appear to be square inside the...

1971 built house with musty smell. Solid brick walls downstairs (two rows of bricks no breezeblock) with timber frames upstairs. The house has concrete floors, but has a strange 2-3 inch timber floor to allow pipes underneath (see pics). When we viewed the property it was occupied by three...

So what do you do when you wife says she would like to buy a £2000 climbing frame .... obviously do the manly thing and suggest you can build your own cheaper using some wood you already have in the garage form another unfinshed job from the last house you lived in. As you might expect I have...

This is a probably a silly question ..... Moved into house and no instructions on how to operate boiler (Worcester green star utility 32/50 oil boiler). Some of the radiators in house are hot at top but only like warm or cold at bottom, so I suspected sludge buildup. The pipes can also be quite...

Can anyone suggest the best way to connect my toilet pan to the soil pipe when the two do not align correctly. Toilet pan and soil pipe centres misaligned by 10cm approx Cabinet depth is 30cm Gap between front of cabinet and soil pipe 15cm approx Would one of these offset connectors work ...

we have just moved into a house which has a large porch at the rear which is used as a utility room for a washing machine and freezer which also has a double radiator in the room. The previous occupants said the pipes froze last year and that they have since well insulated the room. Whilst i do...

Hi I am moving house and will be removing some appliances (Dishwasher, Fridge, Freezer, Washing Machine) which we cut off the plugs and hard wired into the outlets when we moved into our New Build property. The buyers have said they do not want to hard wire their appliances into the wall...

when drilliing into a rendered house to attach a ledger board - is there any way of making sure i am drilling into the centre of a brick and not near the edge which could crack the brick thanks

Hi I have been planning a deck project and wonder if the below would be ok. The garden currently looks like this I plan to put a deck on the right hand side removing the 4 slabs on the floor and the 4 of the raised area but leaving the support walls underneath as extra support for...

Hi I would like to build a pergola attached to my house and would also like to have a polycarbonate (or some other suitable covering) on top to keep out some of the elements. Is there a minimum amount of slope I would need to cater for snow and rain ? To stay within 2.5m height (so no...

Hi I am planning on building a deck with pergola over the top coming out from my patio doors at the back of my house and wondered if anyone could offer some advice and answer some questions I have. The garden currently looks like pic 1 below and I would like to build the deck from the end...

Hi I would like to build a lean to shed and have a few (probably silly) questions I hope someone may be able to advise me on. 1. I am trying to decide between methods either Method A. Essentially a deck with a lean to pergola over the top - cementing some fence posts into the ground...

Hi I am looking to build a lean to/Pergola/Veranda on the back of the house (see example pics below). There will be a 4.8m wide x 3.0 metre length deck underneath and what I would like to do is build a lean to pergola over the top with a reasonably priced waterproof roof. I have a looked at...

HI all I am attempting to build a floating desk to fit into an odd shaped alcove in my house. I wondered if somone could suggest the best kind of wood and fixings to use for this project. I was thinking of creating a support ledge on three walls screwed into wall studs (red ledge...