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I have an integral garage which I'd eventually like to convert, but for the time-being I just want to knock-through a new external door, and split the garage into two. The rear of the garage will be used as a utility room (with only external access) and the front with the garage door will remain...

I want to put up some lightweight venetian blinds on the inside of a window frame. I drilled through the top to insert a plasterboard fitting but found out that it's dot-and-dab onto the metal lintel. I have tried a few different plasterboard fittings but they're all too long. It seems like...

Regarding the TV signal, we're not in the city, we're on the outskirts surrounded by hills. No mobile signal in the house, no DAB radio, and poor TV signal (unless mounting high up on a pole) - but there's a nice view and the broadband speed is decent so I'm not complaining :mrgreen: Mounting...

We have an integral garage with a block wall separating the garage from the house. How much should we expect to pay for cutting a doorway and fitting a door? I've had a range of quotes (over the phone) from £200 to £2,000. We're going to get people over to give a more accurate quote, but what...

Don't have one. We only ever watch things through netflix/chromecast and other online services. We live in a really bad area for TV signal (although good internet speed) - I'm sure an aerial high up on the roof would be fine but we've lived happily without it for 2 years so there's no point.

Not sure what they are, unfortunately. I thought they had to be cut out? Is it possible to pull them up and re-glue?

We have been lucky with our new build, only really minor snags and the builder has been mostly helpful... But this is an issue we can't resolve. Our upstairs hall (and to a lesser extent the bedrooms) are excessively noisy. The house is around 2 years old, but it has been like this since 6...

We have been lucky with our new build, only really minor snags and the builder has been mostly helpful... But this is an issue we can't resolve. Our upstairs hall (and to a lesser extent the bedrooms) are excessively noisy. The house is around 2 years old, but it has been like this since 6...

Thanks for the replies :) Yes it's an internal stud wall. We considered mounting it on an external block wall, but the dot & dab adhesive is all over the place and we couldn't get a straight line down to run the cables. I don't fancy tearing the wall apart as it'll turn this into a much bigger...

I've thought about mounting our TV on an external dot-and-dab wall using rigifix fixings. It's a new-build house (2 years old) - I've heard there may be a waterproof plastic membrane on external walls, which I shouldn't puncture? How would I find out about something like that, and if there is...

I'm going to mount a TV on a stud wall in a new-build house. My plan was to run the cables from a hole in the plasterboard behind the TV, to a hole near the floor behind the TV unit, both covered with brushed faceplates. But I saw a couple of places online say I shouldn't run cables through...

I'm looking for epoxy grout to use with glossy floor tiles. Tutorial videos all show people mixing epoxy & colour powder together to create the grout... But I can't find anything like that at any of the big shops and everything online is white. Am I looking for the wrong thing?

All the ones I've found as labeled as "interior" doors. But I think for security/insurance we need an external one, don't we? And I haven't found any "external" 4-panel normal looking FD30 doors

We have an integral garage which we are never going to put a car in. Eventually we're going to convert it, but not yet. We want to knock through and install a door. We don't really want a fire door because there is never going to be any fuel/oil/etc. in the garage. So how do we make it "not a...

We're thinking of knocking through the wall and installing a door to our integral garage. I know we need an FD30 door for regulations, and we need a secure door for insurance/security... But we also want it to look like a standard 4-panel door. Does that exist? I can't find one anywhere.

Thanks for that. How would I know if they were thermal blocks? When I drilled into them (on the other side of the garage) I used a masonry drill bit and it still took quite a lot of effort to get in. I've heard thermal blocks are easy to drill into so they're probably not. I'll try to get a...

We live in a new-build detached house, construction completed one year ago. I noticed the other day that the external wall of our integral garage (it's a block wall) has a vertical hairline crack from ceiling to floor, through the mortar AND the blocks. Is this something to be worried about? I...

Just moved into a new-build. The builders have put strips of wood behind the plaster, above all of the window frames for curtain poles... But I tried fitting a roller blind yesterday (inside the recess) and made an absolute mess of it! There's a bit of plasterboard about 10mm thick, and then...