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Thanks for the votes. I liked the idea of cement board. Possibly why it was top of my list.

I couldn't do that. I mean I could... but I couldn't!

I'm laying a tiled hearth around my wood burning stove. I want it flush with (or a few mm above) the finished floor surface. We're putting down engineered wood over underlay, which will raise the finished floor by 17mm from the concrete slab. Say I use 6mm tiles in the hearth, which with 3mm...

Just to provide closure, I used self drilling screws with pilot holes and it worked a treat. The key seemed to be using expensive and fresh drill bits, with diameter at the upper end of recommendation for screws. The self drilling screws would never self drill into my 20mm thick steel, but the...

Thanks gents (or ladies)

I've just been advised by the engineer doing my boiler service that the utility extractor vent (that LABC insisted be added for sign-off) is in breach of building regs because it's less than 300mm from the boiler flue. That all seems to match other advise I see on the forum. The part I found...

Thanks So a strip of celotex along the edge of the door, a 1200 DPM in the trench and fill with a standard 6:1 mix? Any more clues how to find noseall's images. He's quite a prolific poster in the forums, or is it a blog or something like that?

They are, however I sent a piece off for testing and it came back negative for asbestos.

Finally gotten around to doing the living room in the new gaff. It looks like the French doors were made by widening a single door. I pulled away damp and crumbling concrete from the floor with my hand until I got to brick. There's no sign of the slate DPC which is present in the centre (and is...

This is the video I followed last time. It really didn't work. Maybe I should try Tek screws this time

I figured I could mount brackets over the hollow sounding bits. Haven't actually tested that though, since I'll have to get lucky 9 times

I want to top-fit 3 x roller blinds in the recess of a 3-pane sliding door. Each blind will be 1.8m wide, 2.1m drop. Naturally we have a massive great steel spanning the gap above the doors with dot-and-dab plasterboard stuck to it. I've been put off drilling up into steel lintels by a...

Most likely it's not square to the frame either because the gap is only on one side so I guess a sideways adjustment will be needed to square it up first.

There's daylight showing at the top

I need to raise the door a bit. I can't find a how-to on the internet that matches this particular hinge. Any ideas!?

Days gone by I'd have stuck a job like this on MyHammer and given it to the lowest bidder. No idea where to find a casual labourer these days.

I have a load of concrete in my garden - a former shed base 3m x 2m and a path of sorts 1m x 5m - that I want rid of. Who do I call? As in what trade would achieve this in the most efficient way? I have a quote for £1,300 from the guy who laid my patio, but it feels steep and he clearly didn't...

Yeah sorry, should have mentioned, it's for the 3rd runway at Heathrow. Apparently they need to land the planes in the dark too.

Really? What are suitable cables? I guess I could terminate the ones poking out the wall in a terminal box, then continue with the suitable cable?