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Afternoon all, 11 years ago I replaced the horrendous and leaky concrete/asbestos sheets on my garage with lovely new 6m long polycarbonate ones. They are great, watertight (Had to change the seals once) but if it is sunny it can get up to 45c in there, even today it's already up to 24c...

Afternoon all, after a bit of advice and guidance really. I am lucky enough to have a very sound prefab garage, when we bought the house it has a horrible leaky corrugated roof, but I have since replaced that (nearly 6 years ago actually) with a polycarbonate roof, which has transformed it...

Hello all, we have opened up our fireplace, and are getting one of these fitted: The fireplace is currently bare brick back and sides, , and a cement/floorboard floor. As the bricks are not in the best condition, and plasterers have told us the cost of heatproof plaster is excessive...

Hello everyone, I have recently assembed one of these puppies: Purchased from Argos a year ago, and finally got around to putting it up a couple of weekends ago - the reviews were right, it took about 18 hours straight effort to get it all setup and anchored! Anyway, the reason for my...

Hello all, we have a backdoor on our house that we think was fitted about 5 years ago or so, we bought the ouse 4 years ago. It has a standard (?) locking mechanism as far as i can tell, where you lift the handle, and it engages two claws and other bits (!) to lock it into the frame...

Hello there chaps, we are currently refitting our kitchen, with mostly new cabinets, and yesterday we got around to fitting the first two of 6 wall cupboards. These ones are 800cm wide X 720cm high X 30cm deep, and are 18mm carcasses, from MFI, so have hardboard backings. They have what I...

Hi there, following on from my post on the tiling forum, I have bought some BAL tile adhesive cement to fill some gaps where it has gone back to brick. I also have a load of other holes to fill, and usually use gyproc powder that I mix up into a paste. Could I use the tile adhesive...

Hello all, should have researched this earlier really, but hey ho. My GF and I, have taken this week off work to refurb our kitchen. We are putting in new units, new worktop, new doors, new flooring, and new tiles - you get the picture. Just ordered our tiles yesterday, and they are...

Hello all, I am putting some 6mm clear acrylic into our garage to replace the old windows. One side says 'Service side' and one is just plain. Does anyone know which side should face the outside elements? Does it even matter?? Irritatingly Plexiglas.net gives no clue, and the cabp...

Hello all, after some urgent help, this weekend we are fitting a roofing kit from CASupply, they are 6m long sheets, and just over 1M wide. It is the frame supported kit: http://www.casupply.co.uk/acatalog/25mm-Polycarbonate-Roof-Kits.html Stupidly I did not ask about how to fit it...

Hello all, my garage project is coming together, I have a second hand UPVC door with one clear glass pane to fit, and will be replacing the glass windows with 6mm clear acrylic. I want to make them all obscure, and wondered if anyone can recommend some window obscuring film from previous...

Hello again, At Easter I am going to have some 25mm polycarbonate sheeting to cut, and also some 6mm thick solid acrylic I am thinking of using to replace the current windows in my prefab garage. I have had a look online, and the best choice for cutting acrylic seems to be either a...

Hello all, sorry for the slightly random question :D I currently have a mostly decent and not that old standard corded JCB drill, it has hammer action, and I have probably about 20 bits to use with it, including wood, metal and masonry. I have a garage roof to change out, which will...

Hello all, looking to change al aging rotting door on our prefab garage (Changing the roof and windown also) and would like to put a basic upvc door in, even a second hand one if I can find the right size. My question is around the fixing of it - I am aware these types of doors are pretty...

Hello people, I think I posted on here a good while ago, but the time has finally come to put a new roof on our aging prefab double garage. It measures 5.7M long by 4.9M wide, and I am thikning of using a kit from these people...

Hello all, this project has been on the horizon for sometime, and we are finally going to sort it out over easter. Current Situ: 5.7M X 4.9M prefab garage with a very leaky roof, 5 single pane windows with rotting wooden frames, and a so so wooden door that is also rotting. The roof I...

Hello everyone, I have recently bought some 18mm thick pine boards from foxdiy, and have cut 2 of them, and have one more to cut to go in the fitted wardrobe we are buiding. The rest of the wardrobe is oak coloured, so I am going to stain the shelves to get the match closer. I am aware...

Hello everyone, we are blessed with having a substantial garden, and would quite like to have an 'outside room' that we can use as a gym, and also as a workshop, either one side of the room, or a seperate room within the structure. Size wise, looking at something around 4.5m square...

Hello everyone, I bought a house last year that had a leaky double garage with it. I posted on another thread about the roof, but thought best to ask about the door and windows here. At present, there is one wooden door, not in the best condition, and 4 or 5 wooden framed windows, down...