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hi, I'm laying some new patio concrete slabs, a walk way and a square, the square will be about 2m x 2m. Around this square I plan to build a French drain, the reason I'm a avid cyclist and this square will be my bike cleaning area and because I commute in London to work the amount of...

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Hi all, I have stripped all external paint from my wooden windows for my kitchen extension, treated, filled and sanded. Checking around my garage I have only a white Interior wood Farrow & Ball Primer rather than exterior wood primer, though I do have Farrow & Ball white exterior Wood paint...

Hi all, yesterday I laid a patio 1.8m x 2.4m (600mm x 600mm concrete slabs) 8cm of MOT type 1 3.5cm of sharp sand and cement slabs were 3.5cm thick All seems to be ok, I'm happy with the job! after laying them it's been almost 24 hours now laid on Easter Friday and today hot! I can't perform...

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I'm trying to tighten my toilet seat, removed seat, after removing one alu cap that's loose on the rubber bung is stuck and I cannot cap from bung for some reason, so I access the screw head to tighten, I tried using WD40 no luck. Is there any trick to this? It's a Saneux toilet. See photo image.

Didn't bother in the end, guarantee would be void on microwave, electrician who is hear today said "no". Not worth the hassle, will put a little microwave on worktop space...thanks all for replying.

hi all, how much does it cost for 7m by 3 m room to tile (excluding tiles paid for these already) new plywood in one area tile grout lay ditramat pva all subs loor and pre tiling does this sound right to anyone? just don't want to be ripped off.

My Ikea kitchen will be installed shortly and I was thinking of adding a compact inbuilt Microwave to one of the wall cabinets above left of the induction hob. Problem I see is: Depth of the Ikea cabinet is 390mm the Microwave depth is 331mm but looking at the documentation you need an extra...

Hi! I measured my stringer angle as 44 degrees with a clinometer app on my andriod phone, I then removed the stair newel post, balusters, stringers to sand and paint the bases, before this I ordered a new replacement online with measurements for all replacement parts, however strangely enough...

Eircmark - thanks for the useful information. I cannot take the Bayonet bulb out it's stuck for some reason. But I've noticed something which makes me think it's the LED dimmer module (there's 2 in, dual switch). When I turn on the working light, I can turn the dimmer slightly and the light...

10 years without changing another bulb apparently.

I'll do that tomorrow and let you know, cheers

My Electrician installed some pendant LED bulbs ( 1 x bayonet in each pendant) with some LED switch modules for a double dimmer. Everything worked fine for a week, now I have a problem with one of the pendant lights where the dimmer on max doesn't produce much light at all. I haven't swapped...

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Can't remove the air brick without causing damage to the window. That's my concern and the electricians view.

It's a bit late now to see if I have a soffit but thanks for the info, I've called a roofer to assess things.

Had an Electrician around and unfortunately he couldn't fit a bathroom extractor through the wall facing outside (terraced house) as one part was part of the brick chimney and he couldn't install in between bathroom windows as there is an old air brick and the width is not big enough, too risky...

what type of disaster do you mean for example, just so I think about these, a gas leak?

I've had 3 new boiler quotes, 1 quote has suggested to place the combi in the Attic, reason for this is the current old combi is in the kitchen and the flue pipe extends way too far (against regulations) and their is really no place to bang a hole in for new shortened flue, British gas suggested...