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I've got a fence running along the top of a stone wall. The posts are secured using metal supports that are screwed into the concrete capping. Two of these supports have become loose because the screws have been loosened by the action of the wind & there's no bite anymore when I try to tighten...

I'm building a covered store for my motorcycle. Not so much a shed, more of a car port type construction with a couple of heavy duty posts, some cross members and a roof covering the whole lot which I intend to tile with slates. Basically, what I want is a pent style roof with a slope of...

Well, cut out a few more sections & found that there's pipework running across the room under the floor panels. There's concrete down there too, i.e. flagstones don't cover whole area of room. Way, way too much work & a complete Pandora's box so it's been back to plan A (which is now complete)...

Not sure if I'll be able to lay that on top of what's a fairly uneven floor. Yep, will do. I'll cut a couple of exploratory holes at the weekend.

It would be good just to lower the floor so I can get a bit more headroom. I'm 6 foot and I've got about 20mm clearance between my head and the beams. I could maybe lay some wooden flooring on batons, lose the polystyrene insulation and still gain an extra 30mm headroom. And it would look nicer.

Yes, good point. It could be that I've just uncovered the original hearth.

Just cut out a section of floor panel to install a hearth in front of my fireplace - what I found was that the chipboard floor panels have been laid on batons with polystyrene insulation resulting in a thickness of approx 70mm (see pic). This is an old thatched cottage & the headroom is...

Thanks for the advice. Multitool from local hire shop was what I did in the end. Hard work - not maintaining a straight line but just cutting right through the board all the way round - probably had too fine a blade. Just as well it came with 2 batteries ;-)

It's on a solid concrete base though and it also butts up to the edge of the fireplace - don't think the blade of a circular saw will reach far enough forward to allow me to cut up to the brickwork.

What's the tool in the pic?

I need to cut out a section of floorboard (approx 1300 × 500 mm) to install a hearthstone in front of my fireplace. Floorboards look like the interlocking chipboard variety & are lying on a solid stone / concrete base - what would be the best tool to use to get this done?

I need the door to be an extra 12" wide so I can fit a motorcycle in. Putting the new frame in first seems to be the way to go. Thanks for the answers.

I need to fit a wider door on a big standard 8x6 shiplap shed. Aside from everything else, what's the best tool to use to make the vertical cuts to enlarge the door opening? I want to do this with the shed in situe.

It does indeed intrude into the main house. There is no secondary door between the kitchen and the porch (I guess one could be fitted). It was there when I bought the place 13 years ago. It's a very old property but the porch looks a relatively recent addition. Maybe it was added before...

I have planning permission for removal of existing porch & construction of a new 2 storey extension (on front of house). For a number of reasons - I've decided to stick with what I've got and extend the existing stone, pitched roof porch out sideways to accomodate a small cloakroom. This will...

Cheers - so long as it's ok with building control that looks good to me. I suppose the other question is where to put the new join? The nearer to the IC, the less new pipe I have to lay but the greater the angle of the bend.

I think the thing that confuses me is how I'm going to come off the existing pipe that runs across next door's garden. This is a straight run at the moment but I'll have to cut it and lay a new run that comes off at an angle so that the pipe drops down a couple of metres below where it does at...

I'm extending my porch out to one side by a couple of metres so I can install a downstairs cloakroom. The existing manhole/inspection chamber is right where the new wall is going to be so it needs moving. At the moment, the pipework runs from the soil pipe along the end wall of the house to...