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Hello all Slightly odd situation of our house having a garden which is about 25m from the back door. We have to walk down a 15m pathway (covered in centuries old york stone slabs, cross our driveway and then down another 5m pathway next to our garage before we get to the start of the garden...

Hello all you clever people. DIY'er here needing help. A couple of years ago I spent a long time making a stairgate to match with our banister. It's hinged on one side obviously, and hence when it's open I guess there's a lot of torque running through it with the weight of the gate. I...

Hello all My aging father has a nice cherry wood coffee table 4' x 2' and about 18" high. He eats all of his meals on his lap sat on the sofa in front of it, and regularly spills the plate all over himself despite having a lap tray. He has asked me to make him a new table that's higher so he...

Hello all I hope it's ok to ask this here... I made a table for our patio last year, with the top made of reclaimed scaffold boards, sanded cleaned up, then joined carefully with biscuit joints and glued up, then treated all over. I really enjoyed creating something for myself and more to the...

Hello all We have been given an old vanity unit but the varnish is in a pretty poor state. I want to try and give it a new lease of life... I have previously sanded and applied danish oil to really good effect on a solid wood piece of furniture but tried the same with a veneered item and the...

Hi all Posting here as I can't see another appropriate one and this is marked as the "catch all" if it doesn't fit anywhere else... I live in an old (400+years) property in Kent and we have an old cobbled driveway. Not sure if it dates back the full way but it's certainly more than twice as...

Hi all I have an old router that has served me well for a few years with the odd job here and there, but it only came with a single straight “bit”. I’ve now got a set of various other bits but they are all of a much smaller fitting - I’m guessing 1/4” v the original 1/2”. There seem to be a...

Hello all I've just completed the mammoth (to me) summer DIY task of brick patio, pergola and brick BBQ area and to finish it off as this wasn't enough work, I decided to also build the table for the patio. I've made it from reclaimed scaffold boards and general 4x2 and 4x3 for the legs...

I’ve put up my pergola posts and down one side they are in what will be the lawn, set in concrete (postcrete specifically). I’ve bought some post protector wraps to go round the part of the post that will be in soil to protect from rot, but some of the posts have split since I set them, one...

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. So I’m building a brick bbq at the end of a brick patio and wooden pergola that I’ve finished and have been “novice DIY’ing” all the way and researching heavily every step of the way. Except for the bricklaying for the BBQ. Didn’t think there could be much to it...

Hi all I'm building a BBQ with an adjacent granite worksurface supported on brick with a pair of cupboards below, one for general storage and once for a fridge. I'd like it all to be as dry as possible inside, both for the stuff in the cupboard and also for the fridge. The whole lot is being...

So we have the same problem as many no doubt with slugs eating all the stuff we’ve bought and just planted. So frustrating. So frustrating in fact that my partner read up on the subject and decided to go with “beer traps”. Which basically means feeding them pots of my best lager and hoping they...

Hello all I’m about to turf an area that used to be an old overgrown vegetable patch which was taken over by bindweed. I’ve dug out as much as I can but the stuff is relentless as I’m sure you all know. Do I need to kill it all off before laying the turf or will it die back because of the...

Hello all Looking to build a brick BBQ, and have a few questions about products to use along the way. Firstly, it's going to be in an area where I have fastidiously chiselled, cleaned and laid about 1,000 old reclaimed bricks of various different sizes (so frankly it was a pain, but looks...

Hello all Looking to build a brick BBQ, and have a few questions about products to use along the way. Firstly, it's going to be in an area where I have fastidiously chiselled, cleaned and laid about 1,000 old reclaimed bricks of various different sizes (so frankly it was a pain, but looks...

Hello all I’m laying a patio in an old traditional walled garden and have a lot of very old reclaimed type bricks I would like to use for it. I have levelled the area and have bulk bags of MOT sub base and sharp sand for the bed to lay the bricks onto much as you would for block paving...

Hi all you clever people I am planning on building a wooden gazebo on a flat area in the garden. I'm looking to put down a brick built patio on the floor using some nice old reclaimed bricks to keep a traditional look. My question is over the holes I dig for the verticals and the compacting...

Hello I placed an order for one of these with "BathroomSpareParts.co.uk" earlier in the summer, but they've finally told me that the part has been discontinued with their supplier sadly. So I need to get one from elsewhere, but I don't know where to start. It's a part from inside a shower /...

Hello all I moved into a new (old) home last April and now the winter is very much upon us, we're finding the house pretty chilly to say the least. It's a very old terraced house and listed, so we have the usual problem of poor windows (not double glazed of course). However, for this thread...

Hi all I've changed the rubber plate for a genuine new one but they're still just flying off. Should there be another layer between the rubber plate and the sanding discs? Looked all over online but can't find anything... Cheers