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My garage was built in the 1930 and has a roof cover off sheets of corrugated asbestos. Regrettably, the pitch is very low and as a result when it rains hard the water ingresses and leeks into the garage. I don't want to go to the expense of removing the asbestos and creating a greater pitch so...

I have a string of 8 garden lights with 10 watt bulbs without a transformer I also have a transformer with the following details on it which are Chinese to me. Could anyone tell me what wattage it will take? PRI. 230-240V-50Hz 70 VA SEC 36 V- Max 60 VA

How right you are. Where we lived a few years ago we came home one evening and my wife noticed that the sensor was pointing towards the sky. I sat up until daylight but Father Christmas did not call.

I would preffer to see them sent to prison.

I want to set up some covert cameras in my house for when I go away for the weekend. I know it wont stop thieves but at least I will be able to identify them. Any ideas?

I recently bought a security light but when I got it home and read the instructions it advised that the light should not be placed where it could be activated by trees of bushes. The problem is that I want to set up security lighting at the end of my back garden and there are trees and bushes...

Your a genius. It's all in the "Name" and when I keyed "Space Saving Staircase" the answer was on the screen so many thanks. A sprial staircase would be nice but I only have 800mm to play withbut many thanks.

Most sets of stairs that I have seen are the sort one sees in a normal house are covered up with plasterboard etc. once installed. On the other hand I have seen sets of stairs which are built with just the two main sides and stair treads built into them. My apologies for not knowing the...

Brilliant, many thanks all.

I'm fed up with having to pull a loft ladder down whenever I want to access the loft and have decided that a free standing staircase would be more civilised but cannot find one. Has anyone any ideas?

I have some 12 V garden lighting and pond pumps all of which are run through 12v transformers with wiring that shows it had been extended. The wiring was put in place some years ago and the person who did it used what I will describe as "Block connectors" to connect the wire extensions wrapping...

Many thanks for the advice. I served an apprenticeship as a Bricklayer in the early 1950s when Lime Mortar had stopped being used being replaced by bagged lime mixed with cement and sand. However, I was lucky enough to see the construction of Nuffield College Oxford as a boy and I watched them...

My son has a cottage in Scotland about 150 years old which he is bringing back to life. The structure is a solid wall built about 24 inches thick built with what I would refer to as, random stone and lime mortar. Many of the joints have fallen out over the years and it is allowing water to...

By flat I mean not with a gable and a ridge but flat with a drop of about 12 inches from one end to the other. I have to say I am suprised at roof timbers of 7". Its only going to carry roofing felt.

I'm helping next door to build a garage with concrete blocks because I was a bricklayer. The garage is going to have a flat roof with a pich and its 12 feet wide. Next door reckons on using 2" X 6" but I think thats a trifle over the top. Could someone please sugest what timber size he should...

My next door neighbour is a bit tight and wants to use gravel as dug rather than a sand and gravel mix for a concrete garage floor. Does anyone have any expereience of using this?

What is the correct size?

Many thanks for the information which simple as it may appear to a skilled person tells me I should get one to fit it for me.

I have bought a set of four garden lights with 8 watt bulbs for the garden and they run through a transformer. I would like to extend the wire to place them at the bottom of the garden. I never touch mains electricity powered connections but I think that as these are low wattage items it would...

I want to put proximity light at the end of my garden to see if I can catch a fox in it. I could run it from the garage and I wonder if I need to buy expensive armoured cable or just attack ordinary lighting cable to the garden fence.