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I have to do the same thing. I presume I should use OSB3, but what thickness? With overhang it's 750mm x 1800mm and has a support half way along the 1800mm width. Thanks!

Mr Chibs, John D - thank you so much. Great advice.

Wow - brilliant tips. Thank you so much guys:) Just so I'm clear . . . . a few more questions. JohnD 1. I'm sinking a pole holder into the concrete. Although the seller says "Sleeve is heavy duty 5mm galvanised steel - it will last a lifetime" I will paint its outside. Will Thompson's...

I've bought a 4m x 3m garden sail with 2 galvanised steel posts (the other two corners will be attached to the house). The instructions say the poles should be set in holes 400mm x 400m x 800mm deep. The bottom 100mm should filled with gravel. I'm trying to work out how much ready mixed mortar...

Thanks Lucid - am saving those points for next time/pwer cut/firmware upgrade! Helpful to know optical cable can fail yet still show red light at both ends.

Genius RandomGrinch - thank you. Sound bar working fine. Scrolling through the Input settings to get blue tooth working, realised sound bar had come off TV as source :oops: I'd have RTFM if I could have found it. Many thanks

I thought Tesco was TEssa COhen, Jack's wife!

Hi folks I have a Majority Snowdon II sound bar, connected to a Hisense LHD32E130TUK TV (not a smart tv) with an optical cable. It's been working fine for seven months, but now even though the sound bar is on, no sound is coming out. Without another telly or sound bar, are there any diagnostics...

Anyone got any experience of this stuff? https://www.amazon.co.uk/HQC-Condensation-Insulating-5L-Magnolia/dp/B00NMNRVMM/ref=sr_1_19?crid=3KT8PK789JCFD&dchild=1&keywords=insulating+paint+additive&qid=1603098488&sprefix=insulating+%2Caps%2C188&sr=8-19

Wowsers - water-based, non-toxic, non-caustic, no fumes . . . "Trade Strip" removes all sorts, including oil-based and lead-based from any substrate inc plaster. Game on! Apart from hating the dust of sanding, I was concerned that it would be lead-based oil paint, so this looks like a viable...

Gardz looks like the alkali-resistant paint I've used previously in other rooms - underneath the wall paper was 1950s distemper

Thanks Nige F - Bulls Eye 123 looks good. Can't see I need the Plus. Thanks OchAye. I have washed the wall four times to get all the paste off. Yes, the sanding and filling it a worry. Thought I'd sand to create key, paint a first coat then sand again. One of the posts mentioned using steam to...

Help, what do I do? I've stripped off the old wall paper in the loo and have bare plaster with patches of gloss paint. I want a painted finish. I'll rub down the gloss paint to create a key. What's a good primer? Some of the posts here recommend Dulux Super Grip Primer. Would you use that? Or...

Hi big-all - yes, it's made of staves. Seems obvious now you point it out, that these will 'go' first Hi wgt52 - it's scrubbed bare. So tung oil, or linseed? (I know about the spontaneous combustion risk of rags used to apply!) Thanks so much guys . . . think I'm going to have to have a chat...

so ambient moisture and outright rain somehow get through the varnish? That's what I feared

Even if you fix it, what will stop your wife putting hot damp things on the repaired joint?

Hey folks I've got an old pine table which I want to use outdoors. Another (very old) post says 8 coats of yacht varnish. Would I have to keep revarnishing, if so roughly how often? Is there any new product that would do the job with little maintenance. And what about the bottom of the legs...

My aunt had a shower put into a downstairs bathroom in her old stone cottage. Very smart, her pride and joy . . . till one day a tiny (accidental) tap from my knee made the tiled wall cave in. Turns out the builder had used plasterboard to square off the wall, and tiled over it.

That was standard practice in the early 1960's. Can remember my mum going loopy at my dad for doing that with a lamp!

Hi folks Have struggled all day with this. Please save me from myself - don't be too harsh! I've stripped the top vinyl layer off the wallpaper in my loo. The wallpaper is at least 20 years old and I'm left with the robust 'backing' paper which is very well stuck to the wall and I am sooooo...