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Well spotted ! The garage used to have a barrel that cought the water, the shed is new and that’s another job for this summer, fit some gutters

The neighbour to one side had the same problem years ago so they layed fake grass but the grassed area is a lot smaller with the rest flagged, the other side is a lot higher than mine and a lovely garden !

i was thinking maybe doing that and is still a option but it’s a lot of work if it doesn’t work, This is the wirst garden I’ve seen, it actually puddles when it’s rains

I know this is a touchy subject and I don’t really like the stuff my self ! Im contemplating digging up by sodden lawn and laying fake grass. the lawn is a bog in winter and the dog brings mud into the house and my 2 year old can’t really play in the back garden during winter. Last summer I...

I thought that was the case, Mrs has had a right fall out with me saying I need to inform building regs !

Hi Ion in the prosess of renovating a 50s council house. To one side of the house there’s a out building that’s been converted to a utility. That’s separated by a walk way and that’s been covered by plastic see through roofing. What I want to do is remove old roof and replace with a glass roof (...

I've had my arm twisted behind my back and hire a digger and driver, £180 for the day so not to bad if he gets it done in the day

I was thinking of using a stihl saw to cut the concrete slabs up first ?

Hello there I've not posted in a while, I've been toying with the idea of hiring a mini digger next week for pulling up concrete drive and digging out front garden to make one big loose stone drive, I've never used one before so would this be a good idea ??

Hi I own a ex council house and want to build a fence splitting up the garden from next doors, the drain pipe runs down the centre of both houses and was wondering the best way to finish off when I get to the Drain pipe, I will be using concrete posts. Cheers for any help

Hi Just had a quote from this company for rendering a full house then painted in a special paint that is garenteed for 15 years, it's a painted house that is badly flaking and in need of re pointing, they said with the k rend it will not need repointing ?? Anyway they quoted me £10.5k ! I was...

Hi I'm thinking of haveing a go at rendering my badly flaking painted house, I'm pretty good at DIY and reckon I'm up the task, I've been told about mesh that I can put over the painted bricks so the render bonds ?? Where would I start on a job like this ? Remove down pipes ?? I've completely...

Hello there, Can anybody recomend a good value carpet/vinyl outlet on chorley area ? Cheers

Ye I had a look at one about a month ago on a fiesta. It had a realy bad clunk on the front end. When I looked at the wishbone the lad had not pushed the ball joint up far enough so it was just nipped up at the very end if the ball joint ! He was lucky it didn't pop out

I know the lad won't rip me off but was just worried of the final bill. I'm not having tiles and the first fix was already done with power points all in the correct position. Hopefully there's not many days left! Ha