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    Building a mini retaining wall easily and cheaply

    The back part of my garden is a gravelled area surrounded on two sides by a hedge which is raised up on a low bank. I think this came about when the previous owner levelled the area to use as a driveway. I'm planning to build a shed on the gravelled part, and I'd like to tidy up the whole area...
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    Damp between internal wall and floor affecting laminate

    My hallway has laminate flooring laid over fibreboard on top of what looks like some sort of old-looking bitumen/asphalt stuff. Removing the skirting and a piece of the laminate next to an internal brick wall (c1920s), I found that the underlay has become damp in the couple of inches nearest...
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    Central Heating stuck on (combi boiler)

    It's a Glowworm Express 80. Sorry :?
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    Central Heating stuck on (combi boiler)

    Hi I have a combi boiler. As of this morning, the radiators have been on constantly. Switching the heating off at the controller has no effect. The only way to turn the CH off is by switching the boiler from CH+Water to Water only. On top of that, the boiler keeps going out; I've had to...
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    Plastering an internal corner

    I stripped some wallpaper last night to find quite a bit of loose plaster (from someone else's crappy repair job) in an internal corner of one of my upstairs rooms. When I pulled the loose stuff away I was left with a gap down the corner between the two brick walls - varying from a crack a...
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