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Hi Thinking of adding drainage to garden. Don’t need or want a 4 inch soil pipe for this, it will only be run off from a small patio. Looking at aco hex drains which appear to have small pipe outlets - I need to confirm this but they appear like internal water waste piping like from kitchen...

Hi all Looking to lay a patio next to a 3x3m approx brick single skin extension, mid 70s vintage. I'm being careful as I'm suspicious of the foundation quality and depth, and current working theory is that it is a raft foundation. I pull up old patio on one side next to it and find this...

Hi all I’m laying some patio and a right of access path soon. I want the patio to be solid but the right of access path, jsut good enough. I bought ready made priming slurry(pavetuff) but I do have SBR and cement. I was going to use the ready made slurry everywhere but ofc it will cost a lot...

Hi Planning on putting a summer house into a small garden. It will be approx 4m away from the house. Thinking of drainage for rainfall. I could let it drip onto the ground but don’t really fancy puddles during heavy rainfall. Was thinking of adding guttering and a water butt, water stored to...

Hi all I have an old extension, 60s house, 70s suspected extension. I think it is on a 'raft' foundation. You can easily dig under this 'footing' all around the extension and it isn't very deep. It's about a brick thick, and it starts one brick below the house DPC. I aim to do a patio around...

Hello yet again. Almost at the point of putting in hardwood sleepers to serve as a ‘retaining wall’ against dirt. More cost effective and easier than masonary. I’d like to treat them still with something to prolong life, especially where they are in ground contact. However I’d like to be...

Hi all. Hopefully my last questions for a while. -concrete fence posts. They’re expensive, but I’m seeing cheap ones on Facebook but some look rough. I assume there is differences in quality and longevity. What are the signs of good posts? Lock timber yard sells ‘dry cast’. Is dry cast...

Hello yet again. sorry to post so much, I’m WFH full time due to illness and I keep spying more jobs and thinking of more questions. I intend to lay two 3x3 approx patios either side of an extension. this extension’s footings are very shallow - presumably raft foundation. Ahead of the patio is...

Hi all. Tale as old as time. 1967 house, concrete floor downstairs has horrible thermoplastic tiles secured with bitumen adhesive or similar. Kitchen has already had these all lifted and covered with limo. Hallways had them removed and it has been tiled which is holding up fine. Living room...

Hi all I’m putting up a fence using concrete posts and wooden panels. One corner will receive a straight post into a corner post. And then the other post off this post will be at an angle more extreme than 90 degrees as the other end of the fencing terminates about 20cm or so away from the...

Hi all. I would like to lay a new patio next to my garage and extension. I understand the finished level should be about 6 inches (two brick courses) below DPM but the ‘footings’ for my extension (3x3m masonary single skin monstrosity) seems to be only 1 course below DPM, and then itself is...

Hi everyone I only have a hopper/square drain cover with grille at the front of my house where a gutter discharges. This means when I need to pour out water at the back of the house I have to walk to the front to discharge it down the drain. I’d like to add a hopper to the back garden so I...

Hi We’ve ordered a summerhouse, about 2.2x2.2m square. It will need a concrete pad to sit on and wre considering doing this ourselves. I’m seeing conflicting advice online and from tradesmen too. I read that it needs 100mm sub base (mot type 1, compacted) and then 100mm concrete pad, with...

Hi all I’d like to add concrete gravel boards between my existing concrete posts which currently have wooden fence panels between them. Now whoever put them up must have been drunk as one is slightly tilted, and another is slightly ‘twisted’ relative to its partner. This means that, a...

Hi everyone Looking for some advice about reducing noise through windows, specifically low-pitched noise. Three bed end terrace house, had the double glazing and all frames replaced about seven years ago with UPVC double glazing. I’m close - but not next to - a busy 30mph road. One side of the...

I'm having continuous issues with my central heating. I've tried all sorts and there is no improvement so I'm reaching out online to see if anyone has an ideas or if anyone has experienced something similar. To put it simply, there is always air in the system that I can never fully clear...

Hi all For various reasons not worth going over in too much detail I need to install new fence panels along the edge of my garden. There is a step/sharp change in elevation along the way - think two normal bricks tall. My instinct was to install a fence panel that ends at the step, post at the...

Hi all I have a 1.5 x 1m approx ‘window’ in the wall beyween my living room and kitchen. I would like this blocked up and plastered so both sides are just a finished wall. Priority to me is soundproofing between the two rooms. I’m not sure whether the best approach is bricking it up or...

Hi. My house is mid 60s. It’s had a lean to extension installed at some point in the past. It’s single storey, flat roof, roughly 3x3m. My neighbours tell me it has been around since at least the mid 80s, so it has been standing for a long time. It’s all square and true outside, but weirdly...

Hi all Looking to add some soffit vents to my soffits to try and alleviate some condensation in my loft. At the rear of the house this fine, but st the front they will be above a bathroom window (first floor), boiler vent (ground floor) and in the future, vent for kitchen extractor fan...