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    Boxing in a boiler.

    Struggling with this. I imagined I could buy a standard kitchen tower and cut and chop it a bit so it would hide this boiler and give me a nice door. Maybe even a bit of storage underneath. But I just can’t see how I could get a tower here and have any rigidity. There seem to be pipes in just...
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    Need advice - Boxing in Pipes

    Never done this before so hoping to get some advice on how to approach boxing in these pipes, and maybe putting the boiler behind a cupboard. While I’m somewhat familiar with how to do boxing in, from videos, I really don’t know how to approach what happens when I get to the boiler? It’s...
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    Concrete Fence Post Replacement

    I need to reinstate my rear garden fence. The original appears to have been done with concrete posts, six feet apart, and then a couple of courses of bricks between them, acting like a gravel board. It was probably a nice job back in the day but the concrete posts have blown and mostly...
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    Raking out old Mortar (Brickwork pointing)

    I’ve got a 1930s external garden wall which is very badly neglected. As it’s never gonna look pretty It seems like a perfect way to learn how to repoint a wall. One thing I’m concerned about though, in all the videos I’ve seen, people rake out about 20mm of the existing mortar, which usually...
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    P-Trap problems

    Hi all. So my dear old Mum told me she’s always had a leak under her kitchen sink, while I was there to replace the taps. I could see it was damp but cracked on with the taps, dreading that it might be a leak from the compression fittings that I was securing my new tap tails to. Well, long...
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