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Hi all, I’ve got a number of Hue lights dotted around the garden. At the moment, the cables are running across the flowerbeds and the grass in one place, and so I’d like to bury these if at all possible. I’ve been toying with the idea of running the cable through 25mm either galvanised or PVC...

Good evening all. Per some other threads, I am currently knee deep in trying to restore a 1950s parquet floor that has been hidden and unloved. Mostly sanded now, but there are a few blocks that are loose (to the point they could be teased out gently with the hoover). My question is whether...

Happy New Year all (think it's just about acceptable to still say this almost a week in?) I'm looking at replacing a number of our white plastic sockets with some stainless steel Schneider Lisse models. Most of these will be on a 32A ring mains. From the research I've done, I believe (but...

I’ve just had a couple of 62.5mm Kingspan K118 delivered. C. £100 ea so not cheap certainly. There is damage to the faces, edges and corners of both boards, but I’m unclear as to what level may be considered acceptable (if at all). I’ve posted a couple of pictures - and would be extremely...

Looking to scribe some acoustic wall panels and PIR boards to get as flush a finish as possible to some not so straight walls over the coming weeks. What scribe tools would you recommend? I have the Tracer pencils (which I get on with), but their scribe tool seems *very* plasticky. The Trend...

Good evening all, We have a small north-facing downstairs room which we have turned into an office. On one of the external walls, we’ve been considering putting up a few of the wooden acoustic panels for both aesthetic and acoustic reasons (the room turns into a bit of an echo chamber if on a...

Good evening everyone. I’m currently having to use my SDS Drill (Dewalt DCH273) to slightly widen the hole of a very old 4” extractor fan duct. I’m currently using an angled chisel to just gradually remove bits along the side of the hole, and generally have been seeing progress… HOWEVER, I’m...

We’ve recently moved into a property with no aerial sockets at all. However, we are less than 1/2 mile away from the Crystal Palace transmitter, and so I’m after any recommendations for aerials that may be extremely small that can just plug into the TV. Something like this if these actually...

Good afternoon all. We have recently moved in to a 1950s house in SE London and have two upcoming jobs. 1. Boiler has just packed up so replacing this which will also mean replacing the flue 2. There is already a reasonable sized hole in the same wall which I would love to make good For this...

Hi all - and firstly apologies if this is in the wrong place but hopefully addresses my question! We've recently had a loft conversion done, and as part of this, have put aside a section of the eaves for storage. The builders have plasterboarded out most of the eaves area, but have left the...

Good evening all, We are currently in the process of having a loft extension. First the good news - the plastering in the actual loft space and new stairway seems to have been done quite well - I have no complaints, and am genuinely quite looking forward to giving it a mist coat and...

Good evening all! I'm shortly looking to put up a new fence *above an existing wall* in our front garden. -BACKGROUND INFO- The (single brick) wall is not in a great state and the intermediary pillars are on the neighbour's side, but she has asked us to put a fence up in order to hide our...

Due to an unfortunate mishap where I managed to burn a hole 3 decking boards wide in my decking, I'm having to replace a small section (inconveniently right in the middle of the deck!). I'm OK with replacing the joist that has also been burnt through, but my question is how best to cut the...

Evening all, I'm after a bit of hopefully advise or thoughts as to how best to finish the roof of my shed. Thanks to comments, I'm pretty much at the stage of getting the sheet ply on, but have a question as to how to cut. I'm hoping the below image might make it easier to explain: 1. Now on...

Hi all, I now have 4 walls in the shed (picture update attached!) and have made up a door for the opening. I was originally looking to put T-hinges on, but the ones I bought had a *lot* of play in the hinges, to the point where I was very dubious, and I've now acquired some stainless steel...

Hi all, firstly apologies for the lengthy post, and if I’m not explaining the situation well – this is my first build and although I’ve read a lot on both this forum and others, a lot of this is still fairly new to me! I'm currently in the middle of building a shed, that essentially will be a...

Hi all, I've just bought a few (new) scaffold boards for a shed floor as they were massively reduced from their new price (and worked out less than buying T&G that would be half the thickness) However, I'm not sure whether they will fit together entirely flush (especially if they are going to...

We are due to have the carpets replaced in our living room in a week or so. I'm taking the opportunity to sort out a small area by the fireplace which had always had a noticeable dip in the carpet. Turns out on lifting the existing carpet that the original fitters had ignored the difference in...

Good evening all, Having installed a new kitchen splash back - we are now repainting the kitchen walls to exactly match the colour. The top coat will be Dulux Trade Diamond Matt (accept that this isn't as wipeable as Eggshell etc, but the low-sheen was preferred by my better half!). I'm just...

Good afternoon all, (The Introduction bit - not necessarily important!!) I have a Vaillant ecoTec Pro 24 boiler that had been recently installed when we bought our current home almost 2 years ago. The wiring had also been done fairly recently, but as we have found out, the quality of some of...