Recent content by Daz33

I have a small sitting room with an open fire. When I light the fire I have to keep the door open about 1cm or the fire starts to smoke. I understand an open fire needs to draw air up the chimney and it is getting this through the open door. The problem is the draught of cold air coming...

I sprayed my grass and weeds off with roundup pro biactive around 10 days ago, and the grass is a yellow colour (I wouldnt say totally dead). Some green patches yet. I was going to hire a rotavator this weekend and get stuck into the garden but I am afraid maybe the roots are not dead yet...

Anybody any ideas? I would like to get to work on the garden this evening.

Hi All I have an old overgrown lawn, that I have no idea what I should do with it. We have recently kerbed around the lawn so the lawn now needs to be raised about 2-3 inches with fresh top soil. Should I strim then kill off the old lawn with weedkiller, then rotavate it and rake it to...

Hi All I am planning in the next few weeks of building a large deck area. I have been looking around at mitre saws and crosscut saws but the cheaper ones cut less that 100mm deep. I will basically be cutting 6" x 2" joists and 4"x4" posts. Anybody any ideas on the least expensive way of doing...

Hi all We have built a new bungalow which the outside walls has yet to be painted. The house is totally rendered outside and the painter I was going to get to do the job recommends painting the window sills as they will stand out like a sore thumb when the whole house is painted. But a few...

We have recently built a new bungalow and the windows have been installed now about 10 months. Now that we are into the windy cold weather I have noticed a draught coming through the windows. We have roller blinds in all the windows but when the roller blinds are closed there is a real bad...