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Thanks JohnD, How exactly did you bolt the wooden post to the concrete spur? How far out of the ground did the spur sit? Will I need to buy a power tool to cut up concrete posts to the appropriate length? Thanks

Ah well, thanks anyway!

I need to repair 2 out of the 5 wooden fence posts on my 3ft high front boundary fence with the neighbour. The 2 posts had rotted away at the base. The posts are inserted into holes in a concrete drive, but under the concrete there is wet earth. 3 of the other posts seem to be fine. I know...

No idea why I'm posting an update almost a year after the event, but I did it myself, and it doesn't look terrible! Got a new length of skirting to match as well. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks, I'll have look at them.

In my house, one door frame is so narrow the sides of the door have been cut down so much, that there is only about 50mm to play with to fit the handles and latches. I'd already bought a set of handles with a tubular latch with a 60mm backset which I then realised was too long. I can't...

Hello, I've just hung a pair of internal french doors in my new stud wall with a bit of tweaking and swearing, and they are almost perfect. I am using three small 76x76mm projection hinges on each door so that they can swing 180 degrees and clear the architrave and skirting. Only problem...

Do you know what - after mulling over it all afternoon, I think I've decided to take up a few floorboards upstairs and add some noggins between the two ceiling joists where I want the wall to be. Then I can sit the wall directly over the floor joist downstairs in my preferred position. I want...

Hello, I have got quite far down the road of planning my new stud wall in my 1930s terrace. The joists all run from front to back of the house, and my plan was for the stud wall to sit directly on top of one of the ground floor joists along its length. I just assumed that the ceiling...

There are places other than B&Q or Wickes??!! :mrgreen: I see, I need to expand my horizons. Cheers!

Ha ha! Thanks.

Cheers guys, that is helpful. I just had another thought - my new stud wall will be 3.1m wide, but the longest stud timber you can buy seems to be 2.4m long. Does the head plate need to be one piece? I could make it out of 2.4m and 0.7m lengths, but would this cause any problems with the...

Hello, I'm going to be building a stud wall over a 3.1m span in my living room. From what I can see, it seems that all the studwork timber that you can buy comes in 2.4m lengths, so does it matter if I build the head plate out of two pieces of studwork wood? (2.4m + 0.7m) Or should it...