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I'm getting a leak from our kitchen sink which seems to be coming from the edges where the basket meets the basin I tool everything apart and cleared it all of gunk and put it back together but the seal where the basket meets the basin is on the large side and very thick and hard, there...

Our daughters room is always cold and draughty - its the 2nd smallest bedroom in the house, pretty much a box room which was previously a bathroom but when we re-done the house we had it changed to a bedroom. Despite insisting on keeping the radiator in that room under the window, I lost in the...

Hi, getting a lot of draughts coming from under the kickboards of our kitchen cabinets - was hoping to stop this and was looking at different options- Rockwool - to stuff the void with, I've read it can be used by mice to nest in or allow moisture to collect and cause damp, mould and rot issues...

Hello all... sorry if this is the wrong place for this but my fibre broadband contract is up and I was considering switching provider for a cheaper per month contract. Currently I'm with EE with a 500mbps plan who are quite expensive and I'm paying an extra £10 per month to add their WIFI-7...

What's the best insulation to put in voids around cabin doors like shown in the picture attached? Feel drafts coming in the winter I'm sure is coming from gaps like these... normally there's a trim that covers this gap, it must do some job keeping the wind out as there were some nice big false...

Hello, doing some repairs and painting garden cabin - one side of the cabin gets weathered a lot as takes the brunt of the sun so I've re painted with an oil based paint Had to take the fascia boards off the eaves as they were cracked and getting a lot of moisture in, have patched and...

I have a garden cabin and I've been long meaning to do some maintenance on it - particularly after the last week we had a huge load of rain Finally booked a day off work to sort it today as the sun was out and I've found there are 2 or 3 logs near the base which have patches of rot I used a...

Hello, I've never done any guttering before myself, but was thinking I might be able to tackle the problem I am having with my garden cabin - when the guttering was previously installed either it wasn't done properly or the flex of the cabin caused it to warp... I'm thinking probably just that...

Hello, we have an apple tree in our garden that should have been pruned and cut back but wasn't done properly and has led to an over abundance of apples that fall from the tree in our garden I tried to pick up as many as I can and my misses is too lazy to help, so therefore we are besieged by...

I've sanded down, filled the cracks with wood filler and sprayed Bartoline teak oil and rubbed it in on some very weathered garden furniture on the advice from my local DIY store - but think I have made a mistake... You can see the original wood in the picture below, does anyone know what type...

This bush has grown alongside the apple tree since before we moved into our house 4 years ago - lately it has grown vertically up the fence but at the back as you can see in the photo it's thinned out whereas before there used to be a lot of leaves I trimmed the top of it earlier today to try...

Hello, I have a garden log cabin with interlocking timbers - the floor and roof were supplied with insulation I was told but still losing a lot of heat from cold air rising from the flooring. Currently inside the cabin, the flooring appears to be hard wood and we have put a load of foam...

Hi I did my shed roof yesterday but got a bit carried away with bitumen glue over the nails used to fix the felt to the roof as you can see... My thinking was to smother the overlap with glue and the bit on the top to make it all weatherproof as possible but regret doing this as the glue looks...

Hello all, we have just had a resin driveway done and just a few weeks after being completed a delivery guy has dropped a pallet of stones off for us and one of the stones has been dragged across the driveway and left a white mark which just doesn't go away - Its been rained on numerous times...

Hi, I want to draught proof and insulate my hinged loft hatch - i've bought some foil insulation to stick on the inside of the hatch on the door that swings down... The foil is quite thin, my plan was to staple it to the wood to fix in place along with some aluminium tape which I was going to...

Hello, we have a log cabin with wooden decking outside at the front The decking is currently un-stained and the type with the grooves that run the lengths of the decking panels. With the weather constantly raining, the decking has been getting soaked - Is it bad to leave it un-stained and...

Hello, We are currently having a garden awning installed to external wall of our house and to do so, the installers will need to drill holes and insert long joists into the wall to hold the awning It's currently tipping it down, is it a bad idea to do this in the rain in terms of water ingress...

Does anyone have any recommendations for a plastic paint scraper? Looking for something that will remove some paint from glass where I've painted a door and some has spilled over the edges- also need to remove some paint from the letter box and key hole surround but don't want to scratch any of...

Hello, we had damp in our first floor bedroom of 1930s house - it was single brick with paonted pebble dash render and looks like rain and moisture got in through cracks on the outside We've since had whole house decked with external insulation and silicone render What is the procedure to...

Can anyone recommend the correct size and power for a roof mounted solar panel for our log cabin please and Where's best to buy from? We have a southwest facing garden and get a lot of the sun in the afternoon, we'd be running a 2.5kw electric radiator in the winter, lights, laptops for office...