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I have made a treated timber 8'x6' shed. Pent roof. Plan is to clad walls and roof with corrugated steel. Eaves bays (gaps between rafters, resting on wall plate) front and rear are going to be left open. So that's front and back wall, 5 x 70mm x 200mm openings hidden (from lashing rain) behind...

How crazy? What better alternatives? Currently have 6"x1.5" inch wooden raised beds which after 10 years have rotten out. This in our current 6 beds 5@ approx 9'x 3' 1@ 18'x 3' Plan to replace using 9' concrete posts and 6' gravel boards, 12 inches high. The 9' posts are cut into 3' lengths...

Question is: Shall I drain the system, heat the spurring t and try to remove it? I have soldered pipe before... I can refill the system, add inhibitor and bleed the Not sure what I am getting into with the fiddly business of getting the T out. Perhaps cut out a section and put two couplers...

Apologies for rubbish drawings.... TLDR- Single skin brick wall 2.15m wide x 1.05m tall, under some load, and on dubious slab/footings. Will cutting a catflap through it, say 1 brick above slab, weaken the wall significantly? I am thinking chain drill and gingerly knock out. Long form...

Roof replaced maybe 10 years ago. As in tiles, battens, and this membrane. The membrane seems to be cracking. Anyone seen such before? Why does it do this?

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New water pipe. Proper approved company... I have done a spot of concreting with a screed plank where you work the fat up and make the typical pattern... This just looks dry, and weird. Will it hold up? Any thoughts appreciated

Company fitting new blue water supply have come in under boilers cold feed to join supply there. They have fitted a stop cock but no drain off. Is this ok, as their quote says they will do so. Don't want to pick fault if perhaps they didn't need to for some reason.... I.e. like the central...

about the worst drawing ever maybe... I want the gutter to project as far forward as poss to protect the door from rain. The eaves is just above head height. These wooden wedges in blue were on the rafters of the roof I am re building. They allow for fixing the facia to the wedge and also reduce...

eBay and Amazon are full of the same pics of these 1/4 inch bit holders. I bought a set and for a recent project and they have been really convenient. I got about 15 and have had all the bits I need on my tool belt. Very handy. Though about 5 days in it turns out they are poor quality and are...

I am putting a new roof on a lean to comprising of larder, WC and storage space. The slab is likely without DPC. The bricks are single skin. It will need plenty of air flowing about to stay dry. It got overly warm in summer as a result of being half glazed, but this won't matter as will soon...

I have a 910mm wide opening (excluding door frame) in a lean-to porch that needs re roofing in tiles across the whole. LHS is brick, RHS is (skinny) timber frame and glazed built on a half height wall. My plan is to use a lintel/wall plate combo made from x3 4"x2" treated timbers as show on...

Hi and thanks for taking the time to look and hopefully advise... :p Short form; see pics and Q: Will this 'beam'/wall plate/header/design for over the doorway aptly support the rafters, or is there a better way? Longer version; We have a single skin brick lean-to with half pan tiles and half...

Quickie: Looking at the before and after pics; does this look like the interceptor has been removed leaving a straight run through? ....If it was straight run through, would there be constant standing water? On flushing and observing, you see a 'replacement' cycle happening where only some gets...

A brief search of offerings online at likes of Amazon or Screwfix make me think my desired spec is missing something obvious as I can't find an obvious purchase. I would like: -Outdoor cameras, mains powered- I can route power cables to them easily. -Sending data over wi-fi - To a central...

We have a utility area. Concrete slab poured in 4 sections. Two small rooms (larder and WC) with boundary at threshold onto the hallway section which itself is 2 strips about 2 m X 0.6 m. Given shonky build of the whole thing I strongly suspect there's no dpc nor bar in the slabs. Was about to...

Sparky fitted one above bathroom doorway. Wife couldn't reach so replaced it with pull cord version. Now wanting to reuse the old switch for same job on another WC fan. But noticed it has no markings at all on the outer face. Not a red patch, or on/ off. Why is that?

I have a small WC and larder as part of a shonky lean-to inherited extension. In larder is washing machine. Not ideal I know...larder is a bit moist! Both doors are ledge and brace with big gaps at bottom. With kitchen door and back door shut you can think of the WC and larder as sealed off, but...

We have a little toilet built into a rough lean to on the rear of our house. The render is really old and bubbled/cracked in places. It needs walls that are fairly uniform and able to take some paint. I would rather attempt cement render than skimming plaster but wonder if there are some...

I have finished a basic lean to shelter. One of the rafters bent as it dried before putting polycarbonate sheets on so I had to remove the fixings and set it off it's original position. I tried to bend (fight) it before bracing it. But it still wants to be twisting. The fascia is the only...