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Hi, I am going to put a sink into my garage for hand washing and general cleaning purposes. There is a square plastic hopper in the floor already and I was wondering if you can get an adapter for sink waste pipes that replaces the plastic grid? My house is an old one with a combined rain and...

Hi, I have recently had the pointing on a sandstone wall done. Unfortunately some of the mortar has marked a nearby new wall which is rendered with K rend. Can I use brick acid to clean it? thanks

Hi, A question about fruit trees. I am thinking about converting my old veg plot into a mini orchard. It is about 6 by 30 feet. I want to plant a couple of fruit trees, possbily an apple and a cherry. I was wondering if I can cover the ground with fabric and the bark chips? Will this harm the...

Hi, I am looking for a supplier of pink/red sandstone blocks in Scotland. I am looking to rebuild a low garden wall at the front of my house. It looks like the existing blocks are pretty large 600x300x300mm. I am looking for a close match and all I seem to be able to find are small blocks from...

I have a blocked outside rain water drain. It is an old fashioned type (sink or cystern?). I am thinking about buying a drain snake, I have seen one for £20. I was wondering how flexible they are? The drain has a small sink with a pipe coming of it with a u bend on it.

I have just repointed my garden wall, 7' high Victorian brick, about 30 yards long. Some task I can tell you. The problem I have now is that there are sandstone coping stones on top of it all. In a few palces they have crumbled away down to a depth of 4-5''. I am trying to restore them and am...

I am going to lay marble tiles as a gas fireplace hearth. The width is going to be about 1300mm and the depth 600mm with the tiles 10mm thick. I want to keep the tiles all the same size but I have yet to see any tile that will fit the bill without being cut. The question is what is the best way...

My son has an xbox 360 connected to a flatscreen TV , great picture but the sound is poor. There is no way to add speakers to the TV. The question is can I connect speakers directly to the xbox and if so how?

I have just been digging out an old gravel path ready for laying turf in my garden. I have found a huge lump of concrete. It is about 4' by 3' and at least 3 feet deep. The top of it lies about 4 inches below the level of the the rest of the garden. Is this enough dept for the turf? Will it...

I am planning to fit an open flame type gas fire in my house. The chimney is of sandstone construction. I am getting it swept and tested, but before I get this done I was looking for some information.. What size of liner should I get if it needs one? If the fire has an insert does it connect...

I have recently put up a pine tongue and groove ceiling. I now know I should have treated the knots with knotting solution before painting...but I thought primer, undercoat and two final coats of satinwood would have done the trick. Knots are now staining the paint any ideas about what to do to...

Are there thermostatic taps available for a bidet? Fed up with burning my ar** when someone turns on a tap elsewhere in the house.

I am being pestered by my kids to hook up their xbox 360 to the internet. I have a broadband connection and several PCs connected via a wireless moden/router. Can I connect the xbox to one of these pcs by wire (usb?) and then connect to the internet uning the pc's wirleless card. OS is xp. I am...

My heating system has started creaking. It starts as soon as the pump kicks in and then some of the rads and pipes tick as it heats and cools. Worcester combi boiler and the system is about 7 years old. Have bled the system till I am blue in the face, not a lot of air. Is this just a problem...

I have got a problem with my hdd. The controller card is burnt out. I obtained another one but the firmware is the wrong version. Any ideas? WD80BB card is 2060-001292-000

Sorry if this has been asked before..... 1 I take the point about not tiling behind a bath, should I leave a gap between the bottom row of the tiles and the bath to fill with silicone? 2 My bathroom is wood panneled, (nothing behind it except brick), which someone has tried to skim with...

Have I made a cock up? I have used copper inserts with speedfit piping and compression fittings, these are not the plastic ones recommended on the JG website. Am I in for trouble with leaks?

Sorry to ask but what size are the machine screws used in electrical sockets? Can you get longer 40-50mm ones?

I am in the process of removing an electric shower, I dont want to remove the wiring as someone has gone to a lot of trouble putting it in. How should I leave the wiring behing the wall? Second question about earthing. I have had the lead supply pipe replaced. There is still some earthing...

I am planning to move a radiator from one wall to another (swmbo's idea). All the pipe work under the floor is 10mm copper. It is a two pipe system and the pipe runs will be shorter when I am finnished as the feed under the floor will be closer to where it comes through into the underfloor...