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dunno about right - was wrong forum apparently!

we are widening the drive. had some ancient concrete slabs - want to replace with gravel and perhaps slab pathways floating on gravel base Actually the old slabs were still pretty level.. I have lifted them and there is some dusty stone chippings - maybe some are 50 mm wide ( picture...

thanks! you have cleared my mind....

we placed cooker into old fire place. thinking about venting up thru chimney as opposed to into the drive our neighbours walk up to get into their house. tube going up to a "spinning" cowl? or is just gonna be more sensible to make a hole thru back of chimney towards our neighbours drive...

thats good advice thanks John, will go for it next week,, have sanded the boards - look lovely Foxhole - so no more carpet! just a few drafts here and there... it is 1st floor bedroom - u think there'll be any air bricks up there? or they just for downstairs?

have same problem - I am thinking about these 'slivers" https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FLOORBOARD-SLIVERS-SMALL-TO-LARGE-GAP-FILLER-FOR-WOOD-FLOORS-RECLAIMED-PINE/183115741514?hash=item2aa28c794a:m:m1L-Q-zIROzKixqC8Qi9x0Q you sort of bash them in and sand over them My mum actually used paper...

definitely getting a breeze thru the cracks in floorboards after taking carpets up. This is cavity wall 30's/ 40's bay front type house, thinking this could be the holes where the joists go in the walls? could I seal them up with expanding foam? u think there will be air bricks up there?

hi - yes - looking at reclaimed planks - this place has a 22 mm chip floor - and some dodgy plumbing. so want a floor that could be lifted up if needed. using engineered wood would have to go from one side of room to another? I can see where some of the joists are - but they defo have some...

want to put real floor down over existing chipboard.. I have seen a great deal on some reclaimed wood,, can I stick it down like an old parquet floor? I could probably nail to some of the joists - but will be a bit of a guess where they are. anyone?

thanks for that heres a sketch I made in the freebie sketch up. garden room to left ( will use as big as a french door / bifold as possible ) the utility at the from of the house with downstairs cloak possible shower room at the back of the house the lean to garage didnt extend the...

I have an asbestos roofed lean to style garage on the side of my house.. I want to turn it into a garden room and utility on the front ( with a big double door should we want to get bikes and what not in ) the roof is pitched onto a brick wall approx 2200 mm high ( including a 6 X 4...

decided to install an island with sink. - we have a new replacement main coming in to the floor void. wondering where to install stop cock? the old one is obsolete. we'd literally be coming up above board level just to have stop cock there is an wall I could have a flap in the skirting some...

suddenly have come to the realisation that the gas meter will limit what we do in the future with our extension. does it take a long time to arrange them to move it. bizzarely it seems the underground gas pipe snakes the complete around the outside of our house.. ( gas meter on front right...

Going thru my central heating system and it seem that the rads have been randomly connected to the flow and return ring.. Actually 2 rads i will definitely reconnect becos they are in series!! I guess ideally I should have all the control valves connected to flow.. but does it make a...

is that a trick question? I would pay my self anything thats why I am asking! didnt want to offend the bloke.. he's suggested a figure which I have added a slice on.. have been living out of the UK Asia for 20 odd years so a bit out of touch,,,