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We recently moved to a new house which has a few issues with CH and hot water. The boiler was the original 1991 model which was installed when the house was build. The previous owner hadn't maintained it well, so we replaced it immediately and had the pipes flushed. All now works okay. We...

We have a garage which is detached from our 1950s house. The side door into the garden has seen better days and is in need of replacement. I'm quite comfortable with hanging the door, but the frame needs replacing and I'm a little worried about how to do this? The walls of the garage are a...

Not quite DIY, but great example of shoddy workmanship. Couple of years ago we moved house and one of the first things we did was have SKY installed. I took the afternoon off work and the SKY man arrived (late obviously) to put up the dish and connect it all. I left him to it and went...

I recently bought a rotary washing line and need to install it in our garden. It comes with a ~20cm plastic socket which needs to be embeded in concrete. I'm assuming from the length of the socket that the base needs to be about 20cm deep, but I'm not sure what other dimensions to give it...

Not done this myself but have recently had a new lawn laid by some professional landscappers. They flattened the area in question - which had been a veg garden many years before with raised beds and paths - using a mini-digger, then laid topsoil over that to give a nice flat surface and then...

Not too worried about keeping foxes out. The chickens sleep in a palatial bunker that even Fantastic Mr Fox would struggle with. I only really need to keep them off the lawn and flower beds in the rest of the garden.

Hi, I need to put up a basic fence to keep our six chickens off the lawn and out of the flowerbeds, and contain them in one corner of the garden. Total length of the fence require is about 6-10 metres and I was planing to use the green arched plastic covered wire you can get in garden...

cheers lad - thats fab, thanks Rich

cheers for the replys lads. so whats an induction circuit? Cheers Rich

I have juts been to buy a dimmer switch to replace the normal light switch in our littlens nursery. I have come back empty handed. The options were 1 way of two way - i think i need one way as its not part of a two switch circuit. The other option was for use with or with out an induction...

Thats excellent - thanks for the speedy reply. Ill have a look in the nursery section. cheers Rich

Hi With my wife expecting our first in August - I have been tasked with turning our spare room into a nursery. We have bought a second hand cot that has a few chips and scrapes on it and I want to sand it down and re-varnish it before I assemble it. Does anyone know if I need to use a...

We recently had a combi-boiler and all new rads put in our house. The CH engineer who did the install did not remove the cold water tanks from the loft. There are two tanks. One is small and made of plastic and the other large and made of....something else. Neither have been used since the...

The master bedroom of our house is very cold. My wife would like to turn it into a nursery but we need to make it a warmer before we can. The house is 1950s and has chimneys in the bedrooms which I intend to have blocked up shortly. In addition we have a window bay window which I think is...

Hi, Live in an old 50s detached house with fireplaces in both of the main bedrooms. House is badly insulated and basically cold. We think the chimmneys are making things worse by sucking all the warm air out of hte rooms. The previous occupant of the house had sellotaped cardboard over...

I'm trying to figure out if the soil pipe running into our house is made from asbestos. The stack is definitely metal. When I hit it with a stick it clearly rings, but from the Y joint about eight feet up to where it disappears into the house the sound is hollow and non-metalic. The house...

I recently had the bathroom floor tiled and I'm trying to secure the new toilet to it. Last night I managed to blunt four masonary drils - including a brand new Bosch one which was supposed to be specifically for tiles - trying to make screw holes. Can anyone recommend a good way to drill...

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ok will take some now and post back in about 20 minutes. cheers

We're recently changed our bathroom and had it tiled. The bath is in and works, and I've pulled out all the other stuff. The tiler came on Friday and did the floor, and plans to return next week to do two of the walls. Today we tried putting the toilet in the room to see how it fits and ran...