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Thanks woody and catlad. I'm not after it doing anything if I can get away with it. It'll make the build a little simpler and use a bit less materials so a win for me. Pretty much every video seems to have an overhang so I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing a trick by not having an...

Hi folks, I had a query around flat roof overhangs on garden offices/rooms please if anyone can enlighten me? I found on Google they can provide shade in South facing gardens, but other than this does the small overhang on garden rooms serve any purpose or is it purely a matter of aesthetics...

Thanks for the tip about trade pro, too bad you need your OSB or you would be sitting on a goldmine ;-)

It's a fairly modest 5x3 metres, I went for pp so I could have a 3 metre height 1 metre from the boundary, reasonable length garden but quite narrow. Access isn't great through house then upstairs and it's on a bit of a slope so I'm gonna go for ground screws. I'll have a look at celotex as...

Yep good point, I was looking at doing some form of sound proofing so need to check if that acts as insulation as part of one of the systems had 100mm rockwool as part of it. I've got planning permission and i specified cedar cladding, now that's gonna hurt! On the plus side ground screws are...

Thank you for your insights chaps. Getting half now isn't a bad shout, to be fair I hadn't thought of availability. I'm pretty certain I'm going to do it this year and will be majority DIY apart from some electrical bits and can store it reasonably safely (will do some homework first). Cheers...

Hi chaps, It's a bit of a crystal ball question I appreciate, but if you were doing a DIY project in summer (garden office) and had the space to store most of the wood, would you buy now or wait? I guess I'm asking for your best guesses if OSB/cls stud/6x2 etc will be more expensive in roughly...

Nah mate, I don't drink since I saw what too much French whine does to people. There is hope for you though if you turn off your modem for at least one hour every day and try and leave the house you may have a wife one day. 48 years, 364 days and counting til we can settle our bet.

QUOTE="AngleEyes, post: 5131202, member: 292032"]I'd have a bet, but I suspect I won't live long enough to collect my winnings. Is there about another 49 years left for JRM's prediction to come good? So you promise not to keep creating sock puppet accounts every couple of months on GD for the...

Hi JobAndKnock, happy new year and thank you very much for your detailed and enlightening post. I don't plan on replacing the stairs if I don't need to so I guess I'd need to bite the bullet and take off all the cladding and plasterboard etc to get to it. There's an understairs storage space we...

Taking bets on how long until people stop crying into their beer about Brexit lol.

Hi folks, happy new year! I've got some creaky stairs and I'm struggling to figure out where I should be screwing them down to secure them. I've put some screws in near the edges and also tried screwing so it goes through the tread and the riser but it doesn't seem to make much difference...

I was a late starter as far as DIY goes but 3 years in and I bloody love it, this site and folk on the forum have been an amazing help to me. So yeah word gets round a little bit that I'm not too shoddy at some things. Two nearby neighbours have those posh shed garden building type things which...

Thanks Guys, exactly what I was looking for. I've ordered some flexible conduit. Cheers

Hi Guys, Can anyone please give me a bit of advice on what to use to cover some CCTV cables outside of my house. I bought this system https://www.toolstation.com/swann-1080p-cctv-system/p17295 and have installed 2X cameras at the front of my house. I've drilled a hole under a first floor...

I had a similar issue but with Sandtex masonry paint (allegedly microporous and breathable, HA!). I scraped off all the flaking bits and gave it a good going over with a stiff brush. When I was left with only sound paint left I painted the exposed areas with a couple of watered down coats (about...

Hi guys, thanks for your help, I unmounted the cistern and gave the backbut a really good tighten and it has solved the issue. Hopefully I didn't overtighten it ;)

Hi CBW, Thank you very much for your help, when I had it apart earlier I couldn't find any dirt or debris so perhaps point 3 is most likely. I'll have it apart tomorrow and check and for dirt and debris and make sure I tighten up the backbut even more. Cheers Larry

Hi CBW, yes it still does it without the lid on.

Hi Guys, can you please help me with a problem thats driving me round the bend? I removed my toilet to lay a floor in the bathroom, the old toilet had been bodged together with silicone so I bit the bullet and bought a new one...