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Which would be strongest? Blocks or bricks? If blocks, can I lay them flat, and if so would still they need a paving slab on the top to take the jackleg?

I'm soon to take delivery of a 24' X 9' second hand site office, for use as an office in the garden. It's replacing an existing steel and aluminium shed [which was originally the back of an old United Carriers lorry - the kind with a rear roller door and two side roller doors]. This currently...

I'm building what might be best described as a small kennel. It's for animals that need to be kept warm - minimum 20* at night, so I'm proposing insulating the structure and providing heat via a tubular heater. I need it to be as light as possible so I can move it around the garden. I'm...

perhaps you could make a vertical "drawer" and just put castors or wheels on the base. Fit a stop so it doesn't pull out of the cavity completely, so it stays upright when opened.

I agree...although it's the only one of three on the front elevation of the cottage which is the original cast iron. The other two, one on each side, are plastic. As are nearly all those on the main house, sadly. But I'll have a look around the local reclamation yard. I know that new cast...

As a post script, I have excavated the clay gully trap, and discovered it does seem connected to a clay system, going off purposefully to somewhere under the tarmac...I guess there's a junction somewhere to another clay pipe which does feed into the i.c. But no rodding point, of course, so...

Old property - 1837 vicarage with attached cottage, which used to be a stable, but is now a two-bedroom cottage. Damp patch on the landing suggested water ingress through stone exterior...discovered that a cast iron down pipe was overflowing about half way up, where there is a bracket attaching...

sorry ban-all-sheds: So you did! I mised that particualr line (although I had read your other comments in that posting.

Because a) I didn't think that was permitted and b) the wall has been decorated, and I'm trying to keep the destruction and need for re-decoration to a minimum

I'm reckoning on the flex fitting into the groove between wall and picture rail. so it won't be visible, and of course no pictures will be hung on that bit as it runs above the overmantle mirror. But would it be OK to take the new flex from the choc block behind the first light and up to and...

Could you not attach a rigid vertical fitting to the side of the shed, some kind of steel pipe, or eg angle iron, to allow for a horizontal run of overhead cable at the permitted height, then just run the cable down this "mast" and into the shed? I don't know if that would be acceptable - I...

I have an exiistng brass picture light, attached to the cable in the wall by choc block. Can I add another picture light (to be placed on the other side of the overmantle mirror) simply by wiring a long flex to this choc block? The flex to the new picture light would be surface mounted (along...

Last point first: you're absolutley right! The job has developed organically.....But what I didn't say before is that I'm also installing a picture rail (having only redecorated up to that part of the wall) so I'm hoping that I can indeed drill some exploratory holes to find the cable and hook...

I need to move a picture light about a metre from its present location on an old lath and plaster wall. Unfortunately the room has just been decorated. The existing wiring seems to be running loose in the wall, but I can't guarantee it will reach the new location. Would it be OK to extend the...