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In the process of fixing something else what looks like the threshold beneath my patio doors caved in. On the front side of this is an air brick, which i think was badly damaged and so has been patched up with a temporary cover. So i suppose there are no bricks directly supporting the bit...

I've had the electricians in recently doing a full house rewire. I have been filling the other chases around the house gradually, but this one running into the main board has got me a bit stumped. It's a brick party wall, depth of about 40mm and 170mm wide. There isn't much play in any of the...

This is going to sound dafter than my usual questions. I bought these years ago, no instructions as far as I recall, and now i'm in a spot of automotive bother and need to use them in anger pronto. Pretty bog standard pair of ratcheting crimp tool. Let's call them side A,...showing the profile...

I haven't done any kind of plumbing before and sadly I couldn't prompt AI to give me something I believed, so this is going to sound stupid: I have a Pegler PB300T isolation valve fitted to supply, and have a flexihose with a 15mm compression fitting on the supply end (this one i think or...

Hi, apologies if there is another area to post this I feel like i'm probably not using the right terminology so would appreciate any help. I've had a rewire of the house recently, and we were planning on converting one of the bedrooms to a bathroom in the future, so along with other things we...

I think i'm going mad. Got an external letterbox in the porch. Previous tennants left the camlock in the locked position and didn't hand over the key (they lived down the street for about a year before i got here, so I expect they wanted to continue getting their post like this). Now switching...

Hi all, hope this isn't too wrong a place to put this. At the outset of renovating my kitchen, but can't make a decision on whether to bother with an extractor as the hob will be over a metre from where we would put the hood. I can see the regs have a minimum height from the hob, but not sure...

Area by the corner of the house by the doorstep has gone, what should I use to fill it in? I'll clear the vegetation out beforehand obviously! If it makes any difference, it's a solid wall and this bit will be in front of a suspended timber floor. Any help much appreciated, the more detail...