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Thanks, good to know. Wickes have got three builders sand products by a company called Tarmac. Yellow builders sand, grey builders sand and just builders sand. The photos all look the same colour. Any particular one I should buy? Edit: B&Q reviews on Tarmac builders sand are bad, many...

Hi guys. I've got a question about pointing as I've never done it. I've watched a couple of videos and out of recessed pointing and bucket handle pointing, I think bucket handle looks a bit easier and looks very nice. I won't bother with weatherstruck as it looks more difficult. Would you...

Thanks oldbutnotdead. Alright then I'll get some builders sand because I prefer paler and less gritty.

Hi guys. I've never done any work with cement and sand until today. Yesterday I bought coarse sharp sand and general cement from builders depot. That was to refix a patio slab which I've done now. Builders depot recommended coarse sharp sand. I thought they might suggest fine sharp sand or...

All done. Took a few minutes of relifting the slab a few times to remove excess sand and cement and smooth it down because the slab was sitting a bit high, but now it's pretty flush with the rest. And then pointed the surrounding gaps with the leftover sand and cement. No water added to...

Thanks guys. I just bought 40kg bag of coarse sharp sand, that was their smallest bag, 25kg general purpose cement, gloves, gauging trowel and gorilla tub for under £20 from builders depot. I need to go weight training, these bags are ******* heavy! I've moved them to my shed before opening...

Thanks. How do I water after the slab is laid, and shall I make up a 3 to 1 for the pointing and add water to that I presume?

Thanks ktuludays, much appreciated. Actually, I can't find a 20kg bag of sand, only this and I've no idea how many kg is in the bag. Think it'll be enough? https://www.homebase.co.uk/sharp-sand_p921213 As I'll be mixing 3 parts sand to 1 part cement with water, what do you mean by 'drybed' of...

Hi guys. I've lifted a patio slab that was rocking when stepped on and also had some broken pointing. There's loose sand underneath which I've piled to one side and it was covering a bit of a cavity or dip in the area under the slab. I'm wondering whether to pat the sand back down and just put...

Well guys, the electrician came and sorted it for me. He said the cable should have been wired into a box. The guy that installed it in 2012 when I had a new kitchen fitted is a builder not an electrician, so that's why it wasn't done properly. So he's wired the grey flex cable from the wall...

Heh, well, even if they had, surely the black connecting box should be the other way around to allow the wires to be fed through.

It's a very bad design. My old hob has the terminal block at the back of the hob, but this one is at the front. The new hob sitting in the hole And from underneath, the the terminal block with lid hanging down at the front. You can see it'll reach from underneath but once the hob is leaned...

Just one other thing. When it's wired in, the thick grey flex cable will be running along the back to the front of the underside of the hob and I think it's going to be sagging a bit. What's the best way to sort of pin the cable flush to the hob so that my top cutlery drawer doesn't graze...

Plank, yeah, that's me. I'll give that a go. :D

Yes, sorry Andy, I misunderstood 'Links go at the bottom', I thought you meant they're both to go into lower terminals, but you meant underneath the wires. I don't have a square outlet, and unfortunately that's all beyond my diy ability. EFLImpudence, I still can't get it to reach and the hob...

Thanks Andy. Problem I'm having now is that the flex power cable doesn't quite reach the hob terminals from the normal way of doing it on the worktop and across the hole, but they do reach from underneath once the hob is sitting in the hole. But it's too difficult for me to wire it up and put...

Hello chaps. I'm useless with electrics but am having a go at installing my new ceramic (non induction) hob. Having disabled the mains for the hob at the fuse box, I've removed the wires from the old hob. According to the instructions, I've screwed in a couple of jumpers bridging two neutral...

Hi guys. Last night I got alternating codes 'F.54 Fault Appliance Start' and 'F.28 Failure in startup Ignition Unsuccessful'. I pressed the black ignite button and the screen lit up saying 'loading..' Then I heard some whirring noises as it presumably tried a few times to ignite because a burner...

Thanks guys. That's all getting a bit difficult for me. And I can't move the hinge up 100mm as there's only about 60mm extra space to the top edge of the door. Surely if there's a 40mm repair plate like that one on ebay there has to be a 35mm one? Unless the ebay seller got it wrong and his...

I got a reply from the seller and he says the hole on his repair plate is 40mm. I make mine to be 35mm. So that won't work I guess?