Recent content by Sepher

Probably quite a few questions on this but can't find what I'm after. I have a span of 6 metres to cover but I want to over hang the edges by 400-500mm on either side so now looking at a 7 metre span. This is covered by 3 100x100 posts across the span. Struggling to source timber either...

Cheers for this. No issues with kids, I struggled to get the lid open myself with a bar :) not knowing what was underneath it was a good job I didn't drop the lid inside it! Decking round the lid for now as wanted to keep deck level with grass and also access issues for it in future. Plant pot...

Hi, Currently digging out for a decking area in the sunniest spot of the garden. Unfortunately a drain sits in middle of it and I've decided to deck round it keeping the deck level with drain. I'll put a plant pot on it to disguise it a bit. Yesterday curiosity got better of me and decided to...

Cheers for reply. So two pictures of front, the house floor level is basically where the cladding starts. Had a builder round today to quote to raise the airbricks by one brick as the flood went halfway past the airbrick. Then one picture of down the side, I don't know what this rendering is...

Hi All, I moved into my house about 2 years ago, and during the renovations I had an issue with the sub floor which was causing musty damp smells in the house. I narrowed this down to an area where all 3 service pipes came into the house, and it appeared the hole had collapsed and was letting...

I know we all say to avoid Carpet Right but I just can't believe what they are charging. I ordered carpet, underlay, grippers and door bars and got a good price for the lot. The quotation didn't include a break down of each item and as I was in a bit of a rush, I had only compared it to a...

Should of mentioned its a BT engineer not a sky one, just worried they might cut me off and charge the earth to install a master socket

Hi, I moved into my property around a year ago now, when I first moved in I was renovating as the whole house had been neglected. So at the time the master socket or what I remember of it, was damaged and I had phone wires stapled all over the house, up the stairs and all sorts. The master...

Were they from Wickes by any chance! I ordered 45 boards from them and ended up changing 28 of them because of bows, splits, knots etc. I ended up using a bolster to try and lever the border closer, and if you have a noggin near it you can use this for leverage with something bigger (a bar) but...

Hi, The decking is now finished. I ended up changing the original plans. I decided to do 10 paving slabs (cheap B & Q standard 400 x 400 slabs), 5 each along approx 880mm apart. I dug out some of the top earth the size of each slab, laid in sharp sand and leveled the slab out. After digging...

thanks for the reply, decking looks good. I will keep hold of that link for the screws. Cheers

Planning on doing a deck approx 3.6m by 5.8m. I want to keep it level to the ground so I'm not peering over the fence and also to keep level with the grass. So far I've took off the top layer of soil, about 4 inches. My plan is too use around 6 paving slabs, bed into the soil with sand and...

Hi, I am planning a 12 x 18 foot shed at the bottom of the garden. I had the hole dug out and rubble filled in ready for concrete. However I needed the garden levelled out and unfortunatly the hole filled with concrete was lower then the ground level. Had a man and a digger in and he has...

I've had my upstairs all re plastered\painted and I'm down to the decorative bits - skirting, architrave, touching up door frames and new doors. The skirting I am OK with. However I'm at a bit of a loss with the architrave having never done it before. The plasterer has plastered over the wood...

I think a day or two after posting, I did think sod it and decided to go for it. Fire has been burning in the basket absolutely fine, hearth doesnt get hot, nor does the surround. Haven't been smoked out, nor any smoke in the loft or bedrooms. Neighbours havn't said a thing either, so going...