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I'm putting up a fence which will have 3 galvanised steel H posts. Posts are 1850mm long. Supplier site says to install posts 600mm deep. Post dimensions are 125mm x 105mm. I'm wondering how many bags of postcrete I'll need. Would it be 1 bag per post? Bags are 20kg. Instructions only say to...

Electrician moved a light switch for me. He had to cut out the slabs in a few places to fish the cable around to the new location. The cutouts on the wall are fine but there's one on the ceiling that I'm struggling to fill in. There's empty space above it so when I apply the filler it pushes...

I had an electrician move a light switch for me. That meant cutting out holes in the plasterboard to fish the cable around to the new location. I had expected him to fill the holes with something like Polyfilla. Whatever he used had a whiter finish than Polyfilla (which is more light grey). So...

I plan to lay some concrete. Once set I'll be putting up a fence on either side. The fence will run along the red line in the attached pic and also along where the timber is. For the fence posts I'll be using bolt down shoes. Looking for advice on the yellow line in the pic. I had planned to...

Maybe every 5-10 mins the cistern in the bathroom downstairs makes a filling sound for about 2-3 seconds. I'm thinking maybe something is leaking internally which is lowering the water level and the tank needs to top it back up. TBH I don't really know a whole lot about plumbing. No external...

Kids watching too much YouTube with these YouTubers building secret rooms/bases in their houses. Mine have been annoying me a lot lately to build them something under the stairs. There's a small area underneath the bottom of the stairs that is sealed off where they want it built. There's...

I bought a newly built house nearly 3 years ago, part of a 5 house development. Mine is the first house in a row of the 5 houses and has a back boundary wall and 1 side boundary wall. - The back boundary was a new wall which runs behind all 5 houses, is capped and is not painted. - The side...

I have a 3m x 3m Steeltech shed in the garden which has a concrete floor. Due to bad advice from the builder I sealed the floor with PVA. On dry days it does the job fine and keeps the dust down. However as PVA (I used Evo-Stik) is not waterproof, when it's raining the PVA sticks to my wet shoes...

I got a steel shed in the garden last year. It has a concrete floor. I heard that these concrete floors can get crumbly and dusty, so when the floor was being laid I asked the builder if he had any recommendations on how seal the floor to help keep the dust down. He said to wait 2 months and...

I've a hanging chair that I want to install in the house. The only really suitable place is off a flat arch between the dining room and sun room. I've attached a photo of the arch where I plan to hang it from. I asked the builder what the structure of the arch is and he said there are 2 RSJ...