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I need to reinstate my rear garden fence. The original appears to have been done with concrete posts, six feet apart, and then a couple of courses of bricks between them, acting like a gravel board. It was probably a nice job back in the day but the concrete posts have blown and mostly...

I’ve got a 1930s external garden wall which is very badly neglected. As it’s never gonna look pretty It seems like a perfect way to learn how to repoint a wall. One thing I’m concerned about though, in all the videos I’ve seen, people rake out about 20mm of the existing mortar, which usually...

Hi all. So my dear old Mum told me she’s always had a leak under her kitchen sink, while I was there to replace the taps. I could see it was damp but cracked on with the taps, dreading that it might be a leak from the compression fittings that I was securing my new tap tails to. Well, long...

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