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Thanks for that. The twin wall was being offered in 10 packs which worked out cheaper than solid sheet!

I've bought some twin walled poycarbonate to glaze a greenhouse we've been given. How important is it to seal the ends? I've also bought some aluminium tape and what's called "vent" tape as recommended but I'm not sure if it's really necessary or how to use it.

Thank you both.

Our house came with this tiled box within a shower. The box was made of plaster board and eventually water got in and it swelled and let more water through etc... So I rebuilt the box in exterior ply and re-tiled it. Two years later and the same thing has happened again. I guess...

Pics of general building work inside the house

Thank you all very much. It sounds as if we had better rethink this. Thanks again.

I have to lay some slabs for a garden seating area - about 3.5 x 4m - and I would appreciate some advice on how to go about it. So far I have at least 50mm of scalpings whacked down over a weed suppressing fabric. There will be very little traffic so the plan is to lay the slabs on screeding...

Thanks very much.

I am constructing a pond and some surrounding landscaping. A path runs right along one side of the pond and I have brought SWA cable up a metre away from the pond on the side of the path away from the pond. (It's positioned like that so that we can hide any connection box etc with planting.) I...

We are about to put up 36 trellis panels (6ft x 6ft) and 9 lap panels all pressure treated. We want to colour this black or ebony. We just need a stain, no protection, and we don't plan to do it again even though it will fade! Any suggestions for something that we can spray and won't cost as...

OK Thanks woody.

We are having a short section of wall built in solid concrete blocks to act as a sound screen around a garden seating area. It is L shaped in plan with lengths of 3.5m and 5m and a height of 2m (9 courses). If we have pillars half way along each section can the wall be a single thickness of...

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In answer to ban-all-sheds, yes that was the idea - recommended by the chap helping me who says he's seen it done this way on other sites. The conduit I've bought is 63mm diameter flexible stuff with a drawstring included (shown as RIGICORD on the invoice). Breezer, thanks for your...

In a previous post I was advised that I'd need to get an electrician involved with our landscaping project. Well I've tried, but they all seem to lose interest when they find out that it's a small job and in the garden. So now it's getting desperate. The "man-with-a-digger" arrives tomorrow and...

Thanks for those thoughts. Looks as if it's not as simple as I'd hoped but my wife is set on having lighting so I'll get an electrician to take a look. Thanks again.

We are embarking on a large garden project which will include about 60m of paths and a couple of ponds. We want to provide some lighting throughout but nothing spectacular. I assume this should all be low voltage to make things easier from a regulations point of view - and safer. The longest...

Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.