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Our daughters room is always cold and draughty - its the 2nd smallest bedroom in the house, pretty much a box room which was previously a bathroom but when we re-done the house we had it changed to a bedroom. Despite insisting on keeping the radiator in that room under the window, I lost in the...

Thanks, I just didn't want to create a nice little cosy home for them during the winter that might invite them in

Hi, getting a lot of draughts coming from under the kickboards of our kitchen cabinets - was hoping to stop this and was looking at different options- Rockwool - to stuff the void with, I've read it can be used by mice to nest in or allow moisture to collect and cause damp, mould and rot issues...

I ended up just switching to Vodafone as they have a deal on at the moment where you can get 500mbps, with their WIFI-7 Ultra Hub and boosters for £38 a month... if I can use their boosters and have ethernet cables run out to them then that's as good as ethernet cable and switches right? And...

Thanks, I've got one of these already but its got ethernet ports on it too so you can connect by cable. I'm now getting about 70mbps with ethernet cable coming off the EE WIFI extender. What kind of speeds are you getting with those WIFI ones you posted

Hello all... sorry if this is the wrong place for this but my fibre broadband contract is up and I was considering switching provider for a cheaper per month contract. Currently I'm with EE with a 500mbps plan who are quite expensive and I'm paying an extra £10 per month to add their WIFI-7...

What's the best insulation to put in voids around cabin doors like shown in the picture attached? Feel drafts coming in the winter I'm sure is coming from gaps like these... normally there's a trim that covers this gap, it must do some job keeping the wind out as there were some nice big false...

Hello, doing some repairs and painting garden cabin - one side of the cabin gets weathered a lot as takes the brunt of the sun so I've re painted with an oil based paint Had to take the fascia boards off the eaves as they were cracked and getting a lot of moisture in, have patched and...

Took off the wood boarding off the eaves as it was a bit rotten and repaired it, but there was some kind of adhesive sealant - it looked like a thick glue strip with perhaps some foam attached to the lip of the wood boarding and provided a seal against the felt roof tiles... it had rotted away a...

That's just the old paint sanded back a bit I think by myself

Our builder came over to look at the cabin, be questioned why the cabin company had finished the cabin in a water based finish instead of oil Hes suggested repainting all with oil as it lasts longer with less upkeep required Is there any reason why not to use oil? Builder also said we should...

No earth heaped up, we had weed membrane put down and gravel when it was built. I think I'm going to give the gravel a blast of weed killer before topping it up with more gravel once everything has been painted and repaired etc.

Might aswell of done, pretty awkward getting to it - was the best i could do left handed whilst trying to fit my fat self down the narrow gap

Thanks for the advice so far... heres some more pictures of the worse bit of rot which ive started to fill and to give you some context of the area I'm dreading what I'll find once I've cleared those brambles and weeds down the other side...

I think from the gutter when it was broken and maybe from weeds, also the torrential rain - maybe not having a good layer of paint or finish - there's a lot of areas where the paint has lifted. Perhaps it wasn't applied correctly?

It's sitting on a plastic base frame which the cabin company guarantee for 20 years. I see no other sign of rot around the cabin, its just the back of it The picture I sent isn't the worst bit, the worst was in the corner but I didn't get a photo It was sodden and crumbling away

Thanks, now I've fixed the gutter I'll get rid if the weeds and finish re painting etc. So hopefully that will help

Hello, Yes we do have gutters on front and back - the back one wasn't installed properly which I think caused the issue as it was bulging away from the trim and water was spilling down the wall from it. I've since fixed this by adding an extra clip which has straightened it out Not sure how...

I have a garden cabin and I've been long meaning to do some maintenance on it - particularly after the last week we had a huge load of rain Finally booked a day off work to sort it today as the sun was out and I've found there are 2 or 3 logs near the base which have patches of rot I used a...

Thanks all - I ended up waiting until it got dark and they all disappeared so I was able to rake the apples and dispose of without any blood shed or stings