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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 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...

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 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...

Hi All Just a little advice please. At the front of my house is my electric cupboard in my living room. At present there is my main Consumer Unit and a 2nd one. This used to be for storage heaters before i mived in, so it is now redundant. What i would like to have is 2 or 3 external...

Hi all I moved into my house about 2 years ago (1935 semi) - a building firm had renovated it including central heating, plastering, carpets etc etc. Anyway, we have a consumer unit in the living room cupboard with various circuits (downstairs ring, upstairs ring, kitchen, cooker, lights up...

Hi all I have a Baxi 80 HE combi boiler - it was newly installed just before i bought the house Sept 2006. The certificate i have from the Corgi person is dated 12/06/06. Anyway, last night i had no hot water and no central heating. Pressure is 1.5-2 - i tried resetting the boiler, turning off...