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I agree its not the standard platform cat tree style. It was an attempt to incorporate some functional room furniture along with a raised place for her. The scale is deceiving, the arched openings are only 20cm wide, I could go smaller but I worked on a 30x30cm cube idea and it went from there....

I use Google Sketch up for my designs, its free for the basic version. Cost wise I am looking at around £70 in raw wood, I'll need a new circular saw blade at £15 ish and then the Wax/oil on top which will be another £20 at least. I did see the edge banding stuff but didnt look into it too...

I am planning to build a cat tree/shelving unit for the corner of our kitchen. Its going to be 1.5m tall, 90cm wide and 30 cm deep. The idea being is that the cat can enter by a ‘mouse hole’ on the bottom right hand end of the unit, she then has a series steps to jump up that go diagonally...

Spot on, cheers for the advice!

There is no fixed batons behind that small sections no, I did temporarily use thin slats of wood on the inner edge (screwed to the current plasterboard) to align the new front piece but these then drop down when I remove the screws.

No I didn't tape for such a small repair. It also cracked slightly around the screw holes and old plaster board plugs are which you wouldn't bother taping anyway. Have had no issues from other previous minor repairs so didn't think to do any different with this one.

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Our previous owners mounted an old iPod dock on the wall in the kitchen that we never used, recently I filled the hole with a small section (approx 20x10cm) of plasterboard and used screwfix instant plaster to squeeze in and fill the gaps, then the same to smooth over the top with a plastering...

Thanks for the advise everyone. I ended up using Weber PR360 for the primer on most of the walls, the tanking kit came with its own primer so used that around the shower area.

I'm refurbing the ensuite, I am not a professional but based on other work that the previous owner took on I knew it wasnt going to be pretty.... The tiles were not stuck to the plaster at all, once one was off the others could be pulled off by hand with minimal effort leaving no adhesive apart...

I am refurbing my ensuite, upon removing the boxing I've found a triple stacked tree arrangement with a single waste entering each level... WC on top, sink waste in the middle and shower waste at the bottom. The issue being is that the previous DIY'er routed the sink waste around to the front...

Yes, but they both fit a 75mm or 110mm pipe so I was confused

Refurbing my ensuite and replacing the 20 year old AAV. What air flow capacity do I need? Its for a toilet, sink and shower. Nothing else is on that stack on that side of the house. McApline VP100 (42.7 l/sec) or VP50 (15.5 l/sec)?

We have a mixer bath tap with shower attachment, when running the hot tap on full it make a loud honnnnnnnnnnnnk noise locally to the tap. When the shower button is pulled it stops. if we turn down the hot tap a lot it stops, if we deduce the cold water mains pressure via the stop cock it stops...

I have my red expansion vessel of my unvented heating system replaced by a gas engineer. He showed his GasSafe card and I assumed all was well, only afterwards upon finding him on the GasSafe register I see that he is qualified for 'vented cylinders' but not 'unvented cylinders' Is the...

Thanks for the replies, I'll grab a photo later and post it up for clarity.

This is most likely a silly question so please forgive me in advance.... In an unvented system, does the radiator loop just go via the boiler or is it routed via the hot water cylinder too? For example, if the water in the cylinder is cold, will this affect how quickly the radiators get hot? I...

I will be re-wallpapering two feature walls in my house. The walls are plasterboard and the old wall paper came off really well (thankfully!) The first room paper mostly peeled off in one and the parts left came of easily enough with a damp sponge and gentle scraping. The second room paper...

Do you mean the feed to the hot vessel to re-pressurise it to 1 bar? I have have had the braided pipes off as I thought it was one of the stop valve leaking but no sign of leaks.

A couple of issues that I found with my heating system recently, water coming from the overflow outside led me to investigate the system and found the following.... The potable vessel on the cold water feed was full of water, bladder had gone so that was replaced with an inflation of 3.0 bar...