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Hello all, we have just had a resin driveway done and just a few weeks after being completed a delivery guy has dropped a pallet of stones off for us and one of the stones has been dragged across the driveway and left a white mark which just doesn't go away - Its been rained on numerous times...

Hi, I want to draught proof and insulate my hinged loft hatch - i've bought some foil insulation to stick on the inside of the hatch on the door that swings down... The foil is quite thin, my plan was to staple it to the wood to fix in place along with some aluminium tape which I was going to...

Hello, we have a log cabin with wooden decking outside at the front The decking is currently un-stained and the type with the grooves that run the lengths of the decking panels. With the weather constantly raining, the decking has been getting soaked - Is it bad to leave it un-stained and...

Hello, We are currently having a garden awning installed to external wall of our house and to do so, the installers will need to drill holes and insert long joists into the wall to hold the awning It's currently tipping it down, is it a bad idea to do this in the rain in terms of water ingress...

Does anyone have any recommendations for a plastic paint scraper? Looking for something that will remove some paint from glass where I've painted a door and some has spilled over the edges- also need to remove some paint from the letter box and key hole surround but don't want to scratch any of...

Hello, we had damp in our first floor bedroom of 1930s house - it was single brick with paonted pebble dash render and looks like rain and moisture got in through cracks on the outside We've since had whole house decked with external insulation and silicone render What is the procedure to...

Can anyone recommend the correct size and power for a roof mounted solar panel for our log cabin please and Where's best to buy from? We have a southwest facing garden and get a lot of the sun in the afternoon, we'd be running a 2.5kw electric radiator in the winter, lights, laptops for office...

Hello we are urgently looking for a 4 metre wide garden awning to go above our patio doors as the weather is hotting up and our flooring is beginning to lift... We are looking at primrose awnings budget option, no cassette as that's all we can afford right now - has anyone had any experience...

We had a side extension done to our house with EPDM roof and noticed the builders left the timbers exposed at the corner points We flagged with them and they came back and added the plastic round the edges to make a proper seal, but since then we've noticed they also left timbers exposed...

We've had loads of building work done over the last few months including external render There's loads of sand and dirt on our concrete driveway but the concrete has grooves and pits in it which makes it difficult to sweep - its pretty shoddy and I hate it but we can't afford to get it done as...

We've had a complete work over on our house about 10 months ago including new windows and some internal plastering and painting - it was a bit of a rush job as we were expecting our first child so I don't think the walls were fully dried out before painting.... Since then, we also had external...

Hi all, We've just ordered a cabin from Creative Living garden cabins for me and my partner to work from as our office, the cabin itself is insulated on the base and the roof, it has double glazed windows and door and wood cladding on the walls but the walls themselves aren't insulated... They...

We were thinking of insulating and boarding our loft and adding a loft hatch so had some builders round to take a look and do a quote but they said there's no need to add insulation as its already got adequate insulation there Looking at the existing insulation, it looks like the loft wool...

Hi, we are in the process of having external wall insulation installed and finished with a silicone render on top The installers seem to be doing a good job and making fast progress - We've opted for 30mm insulation on the front of the house to keep the general aesthetic and 50mm round the...

Sorry but wanted to jump off the back of this topic if I may? Nope. Split by mod. We've had a bathroom fan installed by builders who did our house and found first of all the fan was set to its low setting therefore not sucking enough of the steam out of the room - electrician came back and...

Hello, We are looking to silicone render the complete outside of our 3 bed house - to replace the shoddy old painted pebbledash on there at the moment. House is a 30's build, solid brick with no cavity wall so we are losing a lot of heat at the moment and getting a bit of penetrating damp from...