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At present ive had a load of bushes, shrubs and small conifers cut down to the front and side of the house. Now im slowly digging the roots out. The soil in places is one big matted mess with small roots binding in the soil. These are all close the the external wall of the house. My plan is...

Forgot about this.. Thanks guys

Not really a diy question but looking a buying a new rug and the place offers the option of putting Staingard onto the rug at no extra cost. Its a wool rug so not sure if its best having this or not. Any ideas?

Thanks guys. 30 sm in diamater roughly for the connifers. Some of the smaller bush roots i can probably dig out. The connifer stumps are pretty close to the front room window, (Whoever planted them needs their head reading) so im a bit reluctant to start digging out in case it affects the...

Just had all the bushes and connifer trees cut right down to the base. Next door were getting some work done so i asked them to cut it all down. Now im left with a couple of tree stumps i want to remove before landscaping the garden. I believe i can drill some holes and apply stump remover...

Thanks. Will give it a go. Need to get my ladders out for a proper look as its in the bathroom.

A few of our double glazed windows are struggling to open or close. The problem being is the bottom roller cam seems to have worked loose from the handle and drops. So when the window is open it drops and the metal lock mechanism hit the window frame and the window will not close. If i press...

At the moment we have a couple of conifer trees blocking light into our front room. Im wanting to get rid of these and to a border of decorative stone around the front elevation of the house under the front room window. The idea is to put some sort of edging stone in seperating the grass and...

Rang up and went through the usual routine. Picked days for engineer but working fine as of yesterday. Wasn't informed of an update etc but least it's working. Potential fault on their part somewhere.

My fibre optic has gone so slow with a download speed off 1.5mbps during the day and 0.7mbps at night. I have been using a wireless device (chromebook) to test the speed. Just dug my old laptop out and connectec the ethernet to my router. On the small little wireless icon bottom right hand...

Hmm only one from one cable. 3 cables run into it. One from ceiling light fitting, one from another switch (2 way). That is one switch. The right hand switch is for an outside light. I think the earth is from the ceiling hallway light fitting. EDIT: All good. Just checked again...

Cheers fellas

Thanks.. Just moved house. There is an earth cable connected to the metal back box..I am aware of this needs sorting for metal switch. Is it just a case of looping a small piece of cable from the back box connection to the earth point at the switch. Thanks

Wanting to change a 2 gang light switch over. I have the original one on the wall and a new one. The one already installed has wiring connections labelled L1,L2 and L3 However the new one has only L1,L2 and L Am i right in thinking the L3 and L are one of the same and L3 wiring just be...

It's a concrete floor and laminate needs to come up to lay a screed to level the floor. I think I will not need to do anything. The skirting will be lowered onto existing concrete. This may still give a 10 mm gap in one place but then a new screed and the new floor will go in reducing the gap...

Currently have laminate flooring with the skirting installed on top. We are getting a luxury vinyl fitted so the laminate and skirting is coming up. My problem is re attaching the skirting. On one side of the room there is a about a 10/12mm gap between laminate and bottom of skirting. This...

Moved into new house and have plaster cracks everywhere. Mainly joint of a walk to ceiling, above internal doors and the odd one running down at a corner, walk to wall.. Wanting to do this properly so for above the doors Is it better raking out the crack and using some easy fill? For...

yes we moved into this house a few month ago. Some bulbs were missing so i just bought new ones like for like. Put them in then problems started. I just took a mix of old and new out again and all seemed ok.