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Guys, I currently have an external light outside my front door with an integrated PIR which works great, but as the path runs along down the side of the house, and now have a lovely new block paving path, i also want to add another light with PIR at the end of the house so that both lights will...

We currently have a raised desking with a pond that goes slightly under the pond by about .5ft, but would like to improve on this and get the pond to run under the decking as far as possible, dependant of desking support structure. Onviously, there's no point in having the pond under the...

Morning guys, currently re-doing the Livingroom and the misses wants to replace the old gas fire with a new surround and fire, whereas I want to install an open coal\log fire. Currently the gas fire has been removed and a chimney sweeper coming today. The fire space is completely clear and ass...

I heard that skiming over artex can caause problem with the new plaster due to air bubbles, etc or is this the worse case? as I am actually trying to get rid of artex ceilings aswell.

Our hallway ceiling has nasty textured ceilings and therefore as we want a smooth finish I have ripped down the old plasterboard & reboarded the ceiling, and will get a man in to skim. Anyway, stupidly, I reboarded brown side visible, even though on the board is says plaster other side. Will...

is there any reason why i cant use the mud for the excuvation to back fill? and then paving slabs/concrete section above to protect pipework from above.

thats what I was hoping with the wickes gully/trap. I would prefer to buy from wickes as I can see what i am buying and plan it out. Therefore if I added an angled bend on the gully outlet & onto the clay/pvc connector & then run a length of pipe between, that would be acceptable? as this...

We have a outside kitchen waster/run off drian that keeps getting blocked, possibly by neigbours & therefore called a man in to flush drains. Anyway, they were unsuccesssful in clearing the bloackage. I therefore decided to excuvate the area to find out what way the drains flow & see what i...

I currently have a large shed with lots of marine fish tanks in containing corals. Currently, the shed has a felt/chipboard roof & the tanks are lit by powerful lights. I was thinking about replacing the existing roof with say triple walled polycarbonate to allow the corals natural sunlight...

thanks for getting back to me. I plan to dig out the back of the wall to put another secondary wall behind the 1st to allow wider coping stones, therefore was thinking about putting some waterproofing seal (bitumin) on the wall, but maybe some shingle between the 2 walls for draining. I also...

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I plan to render a soil retaining wall, but would i need to seal the wall first? if so, what with? and then, what render mix would be best? and then finally, any special type of paint? * Mod's please do not lock this thread on the grounds that its a duplicate thread as if you had left...

I plan to render a soil retaining wall, but would i need to seal the wall first? if so, what with? and then, what render mix would be best? and then finally, any special type of paint?

I plan to render a soil retaining wall, but would i need to seal the wall first? if so, what with? and then, what render mix would be best? and then finally, any special type of paint?

Nitrates wont cause algae alone, phosphates will also contribute. To reduce both you could try dosing vodka, but im getting far to deep into the question after all its only a pond not a marine tank :) I had to clear out my pond last week during the good weather as we had loads of the green...

I had a mate who put up some fencing that encroached on to someone elses boundary, long & short of it, it cost my mate about 15k in damages. I would take the legal route as not only will it annoy the mean old bar-steward next door, but also increase your retirement fund :D

I would also suggest some form of bollard just in case someone forgets the handbrake on the car & gravity does whats its best at.

did you do anything about this?

what a good hubby you are :D as for the gap between the fench/desking I planted lots of climbers in the soil in the gap between the fence/decking then screwed trelessing to the fence and the clemates grew up between the gap & covered the fence. oh yer, decking looking good.

would i need to pre-seal the bare brick work? and yes, an earth retaining wall with no lining, etc on earth side. I plan to put coping stones along the top of the wall, but there is a break in the wall for steps & therefore to get a nice square edge, do i need to use them steel corner/edging...