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Thanks for the tip. The room is a square - 10.5ft on both sides. It's a standalone outbuilding with one set of french doors. I was going to lay them left to right as you enter the room as opposed to bottom to top (if that makes sense). Would you say that's the best approach? (P.S. the laminate...

Magic, thanks for this. Delighted I don't need to do the curving up the edges.

Some info: I've got 10mm laminate, going onto 5mm foam gold foil backed underlay with a chipboard subfloor. Questions: 1. Do you need to run the underlay up the wall a few inches instead of just flush to the wall edges, then cut it away at the end? Why is this? Seems a faff with the spacers...

Mystery solved. Feel like a bit of a plum now! Was looking at photos of the concrete pour I had done for a shed base, and the bits I hit while digging are just overspill from the frame when it was being poured.

Brilliant, thanks for this.

This is a good option. I've wound up with probably half a tonne of gravel in the process of just tidying up the edges, so that's a good start. The reason i wanted to avoid this was because I need to drag bins over part of it, but I might be able to mix slabs and gravel.

I'm liking the sound of this. After a bit of excavating, the ground is rock solid and extremely clay heavy (I could set up a pottery business). It's also filled with large stones and random slabs (no idea why - it's very odd). A layer of sand would probably give a decent base for some slabs...

A bit of Googling has turned up Fiber Reinforced Concrete - could be that?

I was digging in the garden and hit this. Stopped as soon as I saw it was blue and hairy. I know absolutely nothing about asbestos, so not sure if it should be ringing alarm bells, or I'm being overly cautious. I've already called the pros about coming to look at it, but as they can't come...

It'll be 4.8m at least along the front of a shed, but if it goes well I might run more of it round two other sides of the shed, so up to 12m.

That's where it gets interesting (sigh). I do agree, but I can't get any bulk bag deliveries or anything that comes on a big lorry due to work being done on our shared access road. I also have some spare decking boards, joists, slabs etc that I could do with getting rid of. It's never...

This is true, I'm considering decking with anti slip boards. I'm not too fussed about the top layer, and more focused on getting a nice easy sub-frame that I can get in before Christmas so I can just relax for a bit!

Interesting idea Daz. Thanks, I'll consider this.

I've drawn up plans for a 700mm wide decking path using timber joists, decking blocks etc etc, but I feel like I'm massively over complicating it. I also want it to be flush with the grass level, so I'll need to excavate a whole lot of soil. In these photos, I can see the guy has used some kind...

Probably a good idea, but it was a smallish job and I'm a big guy, so swinging the sledge off-and-on for under an hour didn't feel too bad. Let's see if I'm saying the same thing tomorrow morning o_O

Absolutely top advice, thank you. I attacked it today and it went very smoothly. Using a crow bar with an old slab for leverage, I lifted it just enough to get a small wedge under one corner (that was the hardest part!). Then as I went on breaking it, I managed to get larger wedges further...

It could be the obvious answer, but I'm just looking at the thickness of it and wondering if it'll work. It's probably 20cm of slab and concrete sandwich, so wondering if I can weaken it a bit before I go swinging. Angle grinder or some unusual drill bit i haven't thought of? Probably...

Disclaimer: I'm useless I've managed to get the area that needs lifted loose as a big solid block (About 7 different sized slabs that are all still attached at the joints). The spade is able to lift the whole thing up so it's definitely loose from the ground. Problem is two fold: - it seems to...

My partner bought a sideboard she wanted me to upcycle. I painted it with furniture paint and given it a few coats of chalky finish spray lacquer but she's since decided she'd like to convert it to an undersink unit with countertop basin. Is there a finish I can apply directly on top of the...

We've purchased a hot tub and are getting a socket installed outdoors to power it from. I'm not DIYing the socket, but I'd like to be armed with the best solution when I get an electrician in because I know it can be a tricky job with lots of pitfalls and risky shortcuts. I'm a bit paranoid...