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Hi all. I am building two full-length built-in wardrobes from MDF, with sliding doors. They will require side panels as they do not run from wall to wall. So those side panels will meet the back wall. Also as we have high ceilings there is about 400mm above the opening - again, plan is to use...

Hi all I had a lawn laid last year, right at the start of that long dry spell. I cut it regularly but only on the highest cut last year, as was the advice. It looked like this: I've been cutting it this year, gradually reducing the cut to a height where we can actually use it and it looks...

Hi I've been trying to upload some images but I am told that they are too big. The smallest I can get Lightroom to export to is 800kb but even that is too big. Surely not?! What is going wrong here? Thanks Nick

Hi all I put down a new lawn about a month ago. Despite the complete lack of rain I have managed to keep it alive. We were away for 2 weeks so got back and gave it a cut last night. I have two concerns: 1) Even on my highest stetting, I was probably cutting 50% of the length off the grass...

Hi all My garden is bordered on one side by a large laurel hedge, approx 5m high. This is on my neighbour's property (they actually live behind my house - the laurels just line the private driveway they have for access to the road). The hedge is right up against my boundary. The previous owner...

Hi all My neighbours are building a side extension up to the boundary between our houses. The distance from my wall to their new wall is under 1m. My foundations are, at most, 450mm deep. Clay soil. We did not object to planning permission, but we did request that special care was taken in the...

Hi all I am about to tile my kitchen floor with 10mm calibrated slate tiles. It has a sand and cement screed floor over UFH. It is very level - I don't think adding SLC would improve it. I just want to make sure I have got the plan right. Any responses to questions or other comments would be...

Hi all I had to change the car recently, and bought an old (2007) bmw x3. I want to give it a good clean, but in order to do that I think I need to know what materials it is made from. The seats were described as leather, but they don't feel like leather. This is not a problem, I just want to...

Hi all I need to floor my hallway. The wife has decided that we are having engineered wood. It is a 1930s house with wooden floorboards that are in pretty decent shape. The hall is long and mostly narrow, so I want to install the boards so they run from the front door in to the house, rather...

Hi all I have a 1930s house that has not seen much TLC for a long time. Sadly it is covered in pebbledash that is a pain to get off. It is very dirty just under the roof - please see the attached picture. How on earth do I clean this? It's a sort-of dark muck. We have a scaffold in place at...

Hi all I am putting a rear extension on the back of a typical 1930s detached house. The extension goes out 4m, and extends beyond the side wall of the house on the kitchen side by about 3m. It has a flat roof. The kitchen part of the extension is very light: I've got 4.5m of bifolds and a...

Hi all We are having an extension built. The kitchen will be approx 6m x 4m. We want a tiled floor (probably slate), and under-floor heating. I am trying to determine the best system to go for; as well as the best method for the tiling. This is what my research has uncovered- I would...

I'm having my house renovated. I came home and saw this. The right angle run is for a socket on the wall. Is this OK? I thought you could only run cables in straight horizontal or vertical lines. This looks obviously dangerous to me, but is it compliant with the regs? (FYI, the chase down from...

Hi all I need to install an engineered wood floor this weekend. Timing is critical - it has to start tomorrow. It's engineered wood flooring, being installed over a plywood subfloor. The room has a lot of built-in furniture (about 1/3 of the room) and I'm not installing flooring there. I want...

Hi all Does anybody know where I can buy high-gloss sheet material? Ideally, cut to size and edged? I want some high-gloss wood-effect end panels for my kitchen and I’m struggling to find anything. I can get some veneered MR MDF panels cut to size and edged and then apply a finish, but that...

I recently installed my kitchen and I'm worrying a bit about the wall units on one wall. The wall had been plasterboarded (dot and dab). Rather than trying to attach the the wall units to the plasterboard, I cut out a horizontal channel in the plasterboard and attached a wooden batten to the...

Hi all I've got a builder in to do my bathroom. This used to be two separate rooms (lavatory and bathroom). Each used to have a ceiling light. I've knocked the two rooms in to one. The electrical work involved has been: 1) Putting in a new mirror (with lights and a shaver socket). The...

A quick one, this. I've got a tall larder unit next to my hob. The hob unit is 800mm wide, the induction hob is 570mm wide. So, I make it that the distance from the edge of the hob to the tall larder unit is only 115mm. There will be a plinth heater under the larder unit. My question is: can...

Hi all The plumber let me down just before my kitchen install so I had to extend the plumbing myself (or face even further delay with the install, which I just cannot afford). In short, I started off with a DW on one side of the kitchen, fed by a single cold water feed with a single 40mm...

Hi all, I was reading this thread //www.diynot.com/diy/threads/chased-wires-in-kitchen-wall-does-this-look-right.431821/ recently which got me thinking about a kitchen in a house I'm renovating. I am doing a fairly straightforward like-for-like replacement of the kitchen units and...