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Thanks Thats a good idea. Ill go with that

Hi All I currently have a concrete patio that goes around my property. Its an ugly thing. I have had to cut around my property to provide a small drainage channel as the builders before me had put the patio right up to the wall, bridging the damp course. Anyway thats done. I was going to...

Hi All Does anyone know where i can get some reclaimed wooden floorboards from for a "respectable" price? I use them for furniture etc and frankly the prices at the moment are ridiculous. I'm more than willing to de-nail them myself, i have the tools to strip them, plane them etc. But i...

Hi - i got mine off ebay. Theres loads of companies that advertise on there. Some use OSB etc but the one i have purchased is all solid T&G. Wasnt cheap but they are coming and putting it up for me. If you want the link etc then let me know

No one can help? Please?

Hi All I am having a 20ft x 10ft shed built in 4 weeks. I have to do the groundwork myself before then. So i am hiring a digger and wacker plate. I am planning on putting down 4 tonne or about 4 inches of MOT1 material, wacking it down. Then using slabs. I have tried to get the slabs cheap...

Hi All I will be making some furniture out of wood soon, in particular beams/sleepers. Some softwood and some oak. I am looking at getting a planer thicknesser but as i am new i dont want to spend 1000s There are some on the market, like Clarke, Sealey etc that can do 10inch by 5-6inch, all...

Widdler, Now thats a good answer - it totally makes sense and was something i hadnt thought of. Clear and precise. Nice one, thanks.

Hi Widdler I know that gardens are a "special location" and can completely understand if as a home owner i wanted to run cable underground in the garden, or put electrics into my shed etc. But, a socket in exactly the same place, but simply through the wall - thats what i am struggling with...

Hi Was at work today pondering over some work i am having done, and cam eup with a question i want to ask you. Please dont take this the wrong way, i am not picking fault with Part P or current regs, i will always strive to do things the right way and i also believe in using good tradesman...

Hi Dig out a 600mm x 600mm patch of ground, about 3-4 inch below the height of your grass. Make it level. Fill with decorative stones. Sit a slab on that. Sit the butt on that. When the water overflows, it will soak through the decorative stone and into the ground. However, if you mean that...

Hi I just did a 3m x 3m deck. Didnt attach it to my house, but did 9 posts into the ground (1 at each corner, 1 in between them and then 1 in the middle). Left them taller than needed. Fitted a 6 x 2 frame with 2 6x2 attached either side of the middle post, secured through the posts with s/s...

Hi Everyone I have just built a 3m x 3m decking area in my garden, finished with some 4 x 4 tanalsed newels (not the turned sort, but flat 4 sides). I want to put decking rope between them as sort of a balustrade. What size should i go for? 24mm? 28mm? 32mm? I dont want it to look too thin...

Ooh BAS, another development, just noticed on my CU above, the one that works everything, it would appear i have 2 spare "spaces" - there is a blanking plate at the end of the trip switches, so it may be possible to get another "trip switch" (sorry, dont know the correct term, MCB?) installed...

Hi Yes still on 2 rate tariff and my bills show 2 different amounts, so definitely using economy 7 on the main CU above the unused one. Good idea about the socket, will try that another evening while still got the light to see in the cupboard. The wiring in the old CU is still present but...

P.S i cant just add on to an existing ring because the closest room to my garden is the dining room which is a flat roof extension, that the builders, b4 i moved in, only put one socket in on the wall furthest away from the garden. they must have drilled through from the kitchen and put one on...

Wow.........ever wish you hadn't started something?? Didnt want to start a war between electricians....that could be dangerous..... CU's, Wire, Sockets...all dangerous weapons in the wrong hands. ha ha. Anyway, i appreciate everyones answers before it got political and terrifying. Just as a...