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A regular corded drill will be fine - hammer action will help with drilling into masonry, but often not needed for drilling into mortar as it's softer. Depending on the thickness of your post, you'll either need some heavy duty raw plugs and long (size 12) screws, or heavy duty wall anchor...

Don't put plywood onto the concrete base under the shed - it'll rot and isn't going to help with or solve the problem. It'll probably just make things worse. I'm not sure that stone chippings will work either, as they'll move about on a concrete surface. If you did go down this route, they'd...

I use this stuff - http://www.ronseal.co.uk/products/total-wood-preserver It's organic-based, so pretty smelly and not as environmentally friendly, but I like the way it soaks in and makes water bead on the top surface. I painted a new fence with it last summer and it still looks good, so...

I wouldn't leave such a large gap, personally. Bridging the DPC in this way shouldn't cause any problems and, like you say, it'll just look odd if the gate is 6" longer than the post. A gap of an inch or two at the bottom should be fine - use good quality, pressure-treated timber designed for...

Those logs are not substantial enough to hold back that amount of soil IMO - my daughter's school has logs holding back a similar amount of earth and they are about 2-3 times the diameter. The problem is that it's not if logs in contact with the ground like will rot, but when. The smaller the...

Making a frame up would keep them off the floor to prevent them rotting and give you a better chance of getting them all flat and level, so worth doing IMO. There are a number of ways you could do this, but using the rear wall as a mounting point for your frame would be a good place to start...

I had a similar problem to you when I replaced my rotting fence panels with new feather-edge panels and decided that, where possible, I would trim the tree branches so that panels could be slotted in from above. For the one tree where this wasn't possible, I made the feather-edge panel...

Totally agree - I've had to drill lots of holes in thick, dense ceramic tiles recently and each hole took a fraction of the time to drill when water was used. I found it easier with two people - one does the drilling and the other sprays the hole and drillbit (carefully) with water, whilst...

How heavy-duty does your tripod have to be ? A quick check on Amazon (.com) shows that you can get reasonable-looking tripods for $10 upwards that would certainly hold a standard camcorder without problems, or are you wanting to use larger, heavier kit ? I can't help feeling you could end...

I'm guessing that you mean you connect the RCA audio out (red/white, L&R) jacks on your TV to identical RCA audio input jacks on your surround sound system ? First thing to check is that you've used the correct sockets. Your TV may also have RCA audio INPUT jacks in combination with...

or if it's a single feed, then it's likely to need connecting to the mains cold supply only - the washing machine will heat the water.

Not sure about the Salus but I have a DT20 with my 37 CDi and, as Dan says, you need to think about dividing your days into zones. With the DT20, there are essentially 4 timed zones which most people would split into morning, daytime, evening and overnight. If you wanted to effectively...

If the two transmitters broadcast their muxes on different frequencies then you might be able to pick up both, but only if you re-scan your TV or Freeview box. The transmitter your aerial points to is likely to be the strongest signal. If your aerial is not aligned for the new transmitter...

I bought a load of featheredge fence panels recently and each board is nailed to each baton/rail only once, presumably to allow for expansion/contraction, as big-all mentioned.

4ft is pretty wide for a gate (3ft is common) so your hinges would have to be suitably sized and the gate properly constructed to take it's own weight. A 3ft/1ft split gate might be a sensible compromise, but you would probably want to mount the shorter side to the concrete fence post. Is...

Hi folks, I'm thinking of replacing my 10.8kW (mains-fed) electric shower with a Aqualisa digital shower (fed from my WB 37CDi combi + mains) so I've measured the following flow rates : The flow rate from the electric shower (at a comfortable showering temperature) is currently 6l/min...

I let my camera software import photos from the camera and put them in folders automatically, named according to when they were taken. I'll often add a label for easier identification, eg. '2011_10_20 Alton Towers' Rather than worrying too much about file names, the best option is to tag the...

I'm not an expert on Sky boxes, but I don't think this problem has anything to do with copy protection - all he's doing is recording from the Sky box, not from a copyrighted disk which would give the problems you describe... unless Sky broadcasts are somehow copyright protected ? DVD...

I gave up using CD-RWs and DVD-RWs on my PC years ago, as I found them far too unreliable... and that was recording and playing back on the same drive !

Ah sorry - I was presuming you meant wooden posts, as I've never heard or seen anyone having to cap a concrete post as you suggested. Have you already done this work ? When concrete posts are cut, it's usual to put the cut end of the post in the ground and leave a finished end at the top - is...