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Folks, Iam looking to put some decking in the back garden against the house. The decking will be raised 40cm from the ground. (which is paving slabs) Size of the decking is 2m* 7m. I am planning on putting the upright every 1m, quesiton is would it be allright to use 75*75mm posts or...

Folks, The stop cock is located under the kitchen sink, the spindle for the handle is their but not the actual red hande used to turn. I have purshed a new stop cock but we are unable to turn the water off from outside the property as it is shared with 5 other houses! Can we turn the stop...

Folks, Now that summer is here and I have a week off work, I am thinking of paiting the exterior of our house. The exterior walls are rendered but are in good condition no cracks. Can i use a normal bruch/roller to paint this? and what manufactureer of exterior massionar paint would you...

Our house has solid walls constructed on poured concrete, and as such we are unable to use cavity wall insulation. I was thinking of putting a stud wall against all of the outside walls and lining it with Airtec Double Insulation. I really don’t want to be losing more than 2 inches from the...

Having removed tiles from a partial tiled wall in the kitchen. I am left with an area of about 6 foot long by 2 foot in height where the tiles have taken the plaster of the wall. I am left with an orange sandy substance that when rubbed the grains of sand falls away. This orange sandy stuff is...

WE have recently moved into this house it is about 40 years old and has gas central heating. According to a very nosy neigh door the boiler was installed in the last 80’s. In our attic we have three water tanks, one that looks as though its for an electrical emersion heater cylinder, a metallic...

My one just stands their asking "Whats that and what does this do?" while complaining it's taking to much time. Then if you ask her to help hold anything she complain that she cant!! How do you get on with your missus while working on projects?

Following on from my last post //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=64061 . It has been suggested that I continue the radial with a min of 4mm cable. However I am having problems sourcing this cable locally the local BnQ does not sell it and nether does Focus. So the next logical size to...

While removing tiles from the kitchen we found a metal breakout box with a 6mm wire inside the wire is a twin core and earth and appears to be joined to another 6mm wire. The front of the box was covered with a tile. Both of these wire are look as if they are running vertically up the wall...

Moved itno a house a few weeks back. The house is of 'no-fines' construction also known as 'wimpy'. When I try to attach shelves to the walls they fall down. The walls have plaster covering a load of little stones held together with concreate. I have tried drilling this with a wired massionary...

We are about to install a new kitchen. The new kitchen requires a lot of the existing sockets to be moved to new locations. The current wiring in the kitchen consist of a ring mains for the entire downstairs and a separate radial circuit for an electric cooker. Now, the cooker that we are...

I want to wire in a cooker extractor hood and relocate a double socket in the kitchen. The double socket is connected to the main ring circuit, i wish to move this socket by about 3 feet, Can i use terminal blocks inside a breakout box to join the extension wires to the main ring circuit? Also...

Good Day Folks, The wife is nagging at me to move the tumble dryer itno the shed to free up some space in the kitchen. However their is no electric in the shed at the moment. From what i have read the best way to do this is to run a radial circuit from the main consumer unit, burry the cable...

Hello, I have just moved into a 3 bedroom ex-council house. The house has been used mainly as a holiday home for the last 3 years for 1 month a year. The problem's) Inspecting the loft I found that their is very little in the way of insulation. No lagging on pipes, thin hot water tank...