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Hi, Planning on building a retaining wall which is approximately 14m long and 1m high. Was looking at softwood sleepers but wanted to explore other options. Interested in using Recycled plastic beams/sleepers. Couple of questions: - Has anyone had any experience of using them? - How do they...

Hi, Trying to replace my BDR91 with a Tado Wireless Receiver. Find a picture of my BDR91 attached. Read a lot of different articles and believe I need to complete the following wiring. My BDR91 doesn't appear to have a bridge between L and A. I have the following questions: - Where does A...

Hi, Considering buying the Tado Smart Thermostat and valves. However I'm not sure if my upstairs radiators will be compatible with the valves. Has anyone had any experience of installing Tado Smart Valves. Do you know how to determine if they'll fit?

Hi, Merry Christmas everyone. A bit of a newbie to tiling and cut my teeth on my first tiling project (ceramic tiles), some basic tiling around a sink. Now need to tile a porch step and I've got some uncalibrated slate tiles, see link...

Hi All, Replacing my backdoor which has a side window. Effectively it's four panels. 2 in the door and 2 to the side. I'm wanting to get in as much light as possible and I discussed with the builder putting in 4 panels of double glazing and the impact on heat. He said there wasn't much...

Hi, I'm renovating my house at the moment and I've got a wired thermostat at the moment. I'd like to move over to a wireless thermostat and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations. Was looking at Heatmiser or a Honeywell. Might be a bit gimmicky but was also the ability to control the...

My toilet was having flushing problems so I replaced the Siphon. I did however find a component that was between the donut and the base unit. My assumption was that it wasn't required but it broke whilst I was replacing the siphon so I did away with the item. What I'm finding...

A very basic question but completely new to DIY. I've stripped some wallpaper from a downstairs toilet and the walls are very bare as you can see from the photograph. Planning on sanding the walls down and then painting the room white. However unsure what paint I should be...

Hi, New to DIY. Got a new house which is need of a little TLC. Anyway I've started on the downstairs toilet and took a piece of wood of wood that appeared to be glued to the wall. However contained raw plugs which took some of the plaster off, see below. Depth is approx 3mm. Thought...

I've got some old damp patches on my wall in my kitchen which I need to treat. I was looking at options and found Polycell Damp Seal paint...

Hi there, My first post :). I bought a house that has a wooden kitchen worktop. It looks a little like the first work top in the following image: My problem is that I'm getting a black mould (I think) appearing on top of the work top. It's becoming very difficult to get rid of and...