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I'm based in North West London, it's resident parking bays. Restriction is from 10-11am. Rarely see any tickets on non-permit cars/parking attendants coming around the area to be honest as I do occasionally work on my car outside. Instead of kerbside (parking spot), pavement would be possible...

I don't have a front driveway and the only way to get materials into my garden is via an alleyway leading to through a gate at the end. I will need about 3 jumbo bags of material delivered. It's for a budget DIY project hence my query as the permit cost/application for a day would exceed the...

Is there a safety risk of using a wacker plate near/too close to the drain/manhole leading to a collapse? Or even just generally along the 'route' of the drainage pipe? The brickwork itself seems to be in ok shape a few bricks that could do with replacing near the top end may do so.

So our garden fence basically failed several months back when there were quite strong winds. The fence would be replaced with concrete posts instead of current timber ones. There is already a concrete post with a slot we can use at the end of the garden (facing direction of our fence), assuming...

Wise words, unfortunately that won't be an option anytime soon, not in London anyway!

Bulk wise it would be cheaper however haven't got a front drive, permit from council to keep that material on the road wouldn't be cheap even for a day I think? It would also take me a hell of a lot of wheelbarrowing to transfer that into the garden even for 1 jumbo/bulk bag (800kg).

We have a patio towards the end of the garden which is approximately 5m x 5m (25m²). It isn't close to the house. It currently has slabs (450mmx450mmx35mm) on it which were laid on a thin base of sand (1mm?) and just soil underneath, the soil is quite compact and hard if stepped on but not as...

Sharp sand not builders sand. Mix ratio of 5:1.

That's actually a great idea! Size wise 450x450x3.5 not sure of the type whether sandstone or whatnot.

Any tips/tricks for laying slabs on a mortar full bed for a complete beginner? Had a go but it's not as easy as it looks. Especially the aspect on how much mortar to put down for the slabs and then levelling it, not beginning with a too high rise then having to bang it down but then it doesn't...

Appreciated, just had a look online. So I guess in order to get a new fence in, would have to get an arris bracket as well, the metal part would stick into the groove whilst then drilling the bracket onto the arris rail timber?

Reviving this old post rather than posting a duplicate, starting the project today and wanted some further advice. Right now there is a very thin layer of sand under the slabs maybe 20mm which they are laid on. Followed by quite well compacted soil it seems. Will be hiring a compactor just to...

Half of our fence nearly toppled over during the last strong winds few months back/last year. The section which just has timber posts and little to no support so will be torn down and redone properly with concrete posts etc. However the front section half already has concrete posts and bricks so...

Not sure of the name but just general grown in between the slabs as pictured.

So I was meant to relay our garden slabs nearly over a year ago now however haven't had the time to get to it until now, as the weather is getting better. Had a separate post on a different query (https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/laying-paving-slabs-in-garden.615167/). Hopefully as now I am...

Could there be harm adding chalk i.e. trapping moisture/water? As it does feel a bit cold but probably from the frame itself.

Hi, Every winter we start to get condensation on our windows overnight, not horribly excessive thankfully and it's fairly manageable. I want to give the window sill a fresh coat of paint as the paint is starting to wear off year by year and it will end up exposing the bare wood, the paint does...

Yeah I ordered some SBR bond for the tiles to stick to the cement. If anything may be of a little more help.

Yeah although as I have the tiles up may as well kill whatever I can before placing them back. Can also see there are actually a lot of dead roots, assuming the survivors were due to no pointing having been done or that it just broke down and was left unfixed who knows. Appreciated, few...

Yeah the sand/soil seems to be well compacted. If you see that huge root in the photo that spanned along about 8 slabs assuming that's why nearly all were basically cracked in that section. The slabs had/have no pointing at all just basically soil in there...will be doing the pointing either...