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I built this with my wife in our back garden from Jan 2024 to its completion mid 2024. It was an expensive distraction. December 2023 I nearly lost my fight with depression or as I later learnt it was complex grief. Its a distressing story I won't share, other than I knew my only option to move...

Merry Crimbo for when it arrives! Occasionslly i make built in wardrobes, ive always formed the drawer boxes using 18mm MR MDF sides back and front with a 12mm ply base rebated into the sides and front. The method works until bigger drawers are required then i feel they become heavy and harder...

Good evening, Im trying to find in Building regs a document relating to toughened glass. Im converting a staircase from softwood to Oak. I'll be using a handrail and baserail that is pre-rebated for either 8mm or 10mm toughened glass. The largest single piece of glass will be 1000mm long x...

This isnt the first time ive discussed my isa on here. My isa term expired with Natwest in August/September and its now sitting in a variable ISA natwest at an interest rate of 1.14% As ive said before im new to online banks not online the high street, so Ive avoided the issue until today. Im...

I had a visit to A&E via an Ambulance on Wednesday. I was shocked at the amount of people in the corridors on beds, A&E was jam packed. I nearly didn't go to hospital, I couldn't believe with my fitness level that I could be having a heart attack and id just pulled a muscle, beside the pain was...

We've nipped of to the West Country for a bit of R&R & Cycling. I looked at buying bike Mounts for the bikes to secure them in the van. Then thought, I can make bike Mounts, being a Carpenter Joiner come kitchen fitter with a box in my garage filled with plumbing stuff, I made my own, much to...

I've always banked with High Street banks, it's what I'm used to. My current ISA term has expired with Natwest, I have a savings account with HSBC which has an appalling interest rate, what i want to do is transfer that to the ISA and a sum out of my business account to the ISA then transfer...

Please see attached pictures, after 3 years of ignoring it I tackled the garage. Rather than try and fudge a bad job, I decided to build a new roof over the existing. The garage was built with parapet walls front and back, the front parapet wall was built directly on to the timber head of the...

This issue is affecting our Garden. Running adjacent to our garden for about 60 metres is an unmade road, there are properties on this road. Between out fence there is a bank of soil with trees and shrubbery and what not that inclines about 2 metres to the unmade road, this road is collapsing...

I have been asked to instal scaffold boards as shelves, but with one twist. They want two boards joined to make shelves of variants up to 440mm. The customer/mate will have the brackets fabricated for each run of shelves. I've never done this before and I am concerned that the boards will cup...

Online price have better terms than my account price, banging...

I have a credit account with this company all of my transactions relate to the Benchmarx side of the account. I have spoken to the manager of Benchmarx who directed me to Travis Perkins Accounts Team as he couldn't fathom what has gone wrong. I have received invoices for purchases made which I...

Good morning, I'm building a summer house, I've been advised I need a reinforced concrete slab for the base comprising of 150mm thick up to 225mm around the perimeter, ontop there will be two course of facing brickwork incorporating airbricks then the timber frame will built off of the bricks...

Anybody use them, I have for quite some time but tomorrow I'm going into branch to moan like a drain... Last month a full flow isolator valve 15mm cost £5.70 + VAT each. Yesterday I was charged £8.49 + VAT each. Likewise 15mm compression elbow, April last year they were £1.62 each + VAT...

Around 2010 my sister bought a house which had previously had a loft conversion. The sellers didn't have a Completion Certificate for the loft conversion that was carried out in the year 2000, apparently the reason being is that the council don't always issue them, so instead my sister took...

We have a Fire Angel CO2 detector that went off when we're cooking dinner this evening "Gas Hob" - The boiler is in the loft that was serviced 9 months ago. Anyway took the CO2 detector outside, let it reset and put it back in the kitchen 10 minutes, shortly after it went off again. Not one...

I've been asked to replace the decking in my neighbours property, there was a softwood decking in situ but I ripped that out as it was dangerous, I didn't want my 91 year old neighbour having an accident. I hoping to discuss the design for the sub base as its elevated. The length is 10.5mtrs...

Renewable Energy. I understand the concept of it but that's about it. Does all the energy produced go directly to the grid? I can only presume that the UK doesn't have the facilities to store electricity generated from renewable energy given during the last storm it was exported to France...

As some will know FFX went into administration late last year which was quite a blow to the trades people in and around the folkestone area and left a gap. FFX was originally Folkestone Fixings and was founded by a chap called John Drinkwater who built the business and then sold it hence the...

I had my stitches removed this morning at my local GP Practise. Took approximately 30 seconds. Nurse used a pair of Tweezers & Scissors. Both items are single use. Tweezers are £2.00 each, scissors were already in the bin. What the hell is going on, what happened to sanitising stuff, is...