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Hi, I wasn't sure where to post this, I'm after a replacement ladder, Currently I have an Old Beldray Gazelle 5 Step + Platform, missing feet, it wobbles. I have a bungalow and use it a lot for cleaning gutters, I would guess they are 10ft from the floor, I have a gutter cleaning tool for the...

Thats for that, sounds a bit complicated for me, I'm a basic DIYer, I'll get a builder that I trust to take a look. Well done for noticing the Canopy :)

Thanks for that. I've felt the skirting board and it feels fine. I've attached some pics of the outside wall, it's not rendered but I have noticed some white near where the damp is the othe rside, there is a step and there is a slight gap (3mm) between the step and the brick, Yes I have cavity...

Thanks for that. It looks like they only do it in a 5 Litre tin, even if I look http://www.zinsseruk.com/product/watertite/, it's a relatively small area I need to cover, 5 Litre on Amazon is £51.24, not a fortune if it does the job for a good few years. I've just seen some DPM Paint, quite a...

Thanks for the suggestion JohnD, Nope, no water pipe buried or on the surface, no waste pipes, no drains, No Down pipe from gutter and gutter is clear. Any idea which 'Zinserr' I should use, they all look fairly simular

Thanks for that. I've not heard of 'Zinserr ' before, a quyick look on Amazon shows a few different ones, do you mean '123 Bulls Eye Primer / Sealer Paint? The guy that said about the Unibond PVA Adhesive & sealant also said to give it a good wipe over with some bleach, should I do that? I don't...

Hi, I have what I think is damp, it's in the Utility room in the extension, that was built in 2000, before we owned the property, we've been her 3 1/2 years. It's near a tumble dryer that is vented outside, that is what makes me think it's damp, although it isn't wet, the property is a bungalow...

I'm putting a pull cord switch in my wetroom, the problem is 2 fold, 1, It's a flat ceiling, so I can't get above 2, The hole that Ive made and put a fixing into is crumbling away. How to I get around this? If I could get above I'd put a plank of wood, but that isn't an option, I could try and...

When I was working on the XP Laptop earlier, I decided to run the XP Drive repair tool, that tells you that you have to reboot and it runs CHKDSK/f, when it did that it found loads of errors, now rebooting again, stuck on CHKDSK is verifying file data (Stage 4 of 5) about 65%, so the drive is...

Yes, I can boot the XP Laptop in XP. I actually went in Safe Mode this time and then Administrator, there are a few accounts on there, this allowed me to view some of the pictures, there is @ 4Gb of pictures on there, so I wasn't going to look at them all, I thought whilst it's going I'll back...

Yes, That's basically what I have. So I should be able to see the XP IDE Drive in File explorer? What can I do if I don't? Many Thanks to all, Steve

Soory should have stated USB Memory stick. If I plug a USB memory stick into the XP machine, and copy the files via XP, it's very slow and some of the files won't copy, I wasn't sure if this was just because the 256Mb RAM or the IDE HDD being a bit iffy, That'w why I wondered if I could boot the...

Thanks for that. In Drive Manager you should be able Right Click on the partition and select Explore, I just tried it on my Win 10 PC and can see my Drive, I don't have the IDE drive connected at the moment, but that is what I tried, maybe I'll try again tomorrow and see what happens. I just...

Hi, I used to be a computer engineer but have forgotten the best ways to do things. My friend gave me a very old XP Laptop and asked if I could backup the photo's, smash the drive and dispose of the laptop, so I took it away. My first thought was to remove the drive (IDE, fairly simple) and...

Hi Guys, We bought a new sink and surround about 18 months ago along with a bathroom suite and had it fitted, the sink has one of those Chrome effect plugs that you push down with your finger to close it and then push it again to open it, so there are no leavers, the top of the plug has lost...

Hi, We moved into our bungalow about 2 years ago, when we bought it there was a 'Potting Shed', I've already had to repair some rotten window frames, now I notice that the roof is leaking because my tool box has some water in it. The roof is a 'Pent roof' approx. 5ft wide by 6ft deep, currently...

Yes, the fascia I have bought does have the 'return' in it near the bottom, but I intend to cut that off along with the slot that I presume is for socia, I don't need the 150mm so should be OK. I'll screw into the end of the joists as you say

I'm back again! The old wooden fascia is off, bit of a job in places, it turns out the supporting beams \ joists for the asbestos roof do go though the wall and end flush with the outside wall, so the old wooden fascia had those large 'Floor Board nails' going into the supporting beams and they...

Did you screw through the ply into the 2 x 1 and then into the joists or screw the 2 x 1 down first and then screw the ply to the 2 x 1?

Hi, I have some loft panels to fit, I've done this before but I have a question. The loft insulation in by Bungalow is above the joists, I think that the joists are 4", so the last time I fitted some loft panels I put some 2" x 2" down to give room for the lost insulation, that works out quite...