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Hi I live in a mock Tudor style house and the paint on the render does not seem to last very long, ie after painting it lasts 2 years if I am lucky sometimes it flakes in less than a year. A few years ago not having much ready cash I had someone paint it for me who I new was not the most...

Hi ladylola, thank you, thank you, thank you, that is very helpful, you are a diamond, I thought my replies might be getting too long and things too complicated to sort this out on here but you have done a wonderful job, of explaining this. I not sure if I need to mortice the upright posts...

Hi ladylola, thanks for that, yes the posts do go all the way to the ground and I can see what you are saying if excavated the floor a little but for various reasons I prefer not to damage the floor so I prefer your second method to use slip tenons, this sounds good but i am struggling to...

Hi foxhole thanks for your reply, it is just decorative and just about goes into the 2 end walls (3.5cm) each end so that’s why I am using the uprights to give a lot of support as I realise 3.5cm is not enough on its own. It was the longest Oak beam I could get at the time, otherwise I would...

Hi I am making an Oak gallows construction and would like some advice how to join the diagonal part for the best strength. I want to mount a beam on the ceiling with an upright each end and a gallow construction both ends. There is not much room for movement and the beams that I am...

Cheers tim00, need to ask a bit more, around my shed the base is about 500mm bigger than the shed so that there are bricks to walk on covering the 500mm bit and then facing bricks 4 or 5 stacks high at the edge. I have seen people use a dry mix before with no water involved and brush the mixture...

Hi I need to repair some pointing on my house mainly at the damp proof layer and on a base for a shed that is bricked in the back garden, is now an ok time to do this? I live in Surrey and looking at the weather forecast its about 8 deg C at night and 15 deg C during the day, although it...

Sorry was not sure of exact name but these are them http://www.screwfix.com/p/coach-screws-bzp-m6-x-90mm-pack-of-100/11079 maybe should have called them coach screws. Not sure what size they are the link above is just to show type not exact size but holes drilled were 12mm x 85mm...

Hi my mother in law had her son in law fix her a wall mounted shower seat when he came for a visit (from France so he wont be back for a while), he often does stuff for his daughter too in the UK when he visits so he has loads of tools/drills that he leaves over here. When I went there...

Hi, yes it plays all normal DVD's. Not sure what you mean by initialise? If you mean use blank disks then yes it works fine with the Panasonic blanks I have. I just looked the DVD machine up online and it seems like it make not support DVD-RW, if that is the case would DVD-RAM be any...

Hi I want to record stuff for my mother to watch but I am having problems. Can anybody help me please? I have a Panasonic DVD recorder with harddrive built in, under my TV which is probably over 5 years old but was one of the best at the time and has not seen a lot of use so it still looks...

Hi Richard, after a delay I am now tiling finally but I need your advice, hopefully you see this quite quickly. Its the tile trim round the window, I have looked at many videos online to try and confirm the correct method, they all say it is very simple but all they have done is put doubts...

Hi I am replacing a close couple toilet with a new close couple one for my mother in law, and she would like to move it to the left of its original location. at the moment it goes straight out of the wall behind. Is it possible to get a connector to do this? If so is it ok, ie not going...

Hi I am fitting an electric shower and I have the electrics sorted with a electrician mate but with the plumbing I have some questions. We are fitting a 9.5kW Mira shower and as with most showers it has a 15mm plastic spigot to connect to the incoming water supply. They don't specify but...

I have checked the waste and it looks like I will just be ok by a few mm. It is not going to be a wet room but I am going to use a tanking kit in the shower area as seems common good practice to do this. Thank you for the link but I don't think it will help my case much as they go on about...

I am doing my mother-in-laws bathroom for her, she is over 80, not very well off, and needs to get rid of the bath in favour of a shower. I am looking at the tray she bought from B&Q (hope that does not make you go “oh no”). It is a quadrant 1200 x 800 resin composite and quite slim line. I...