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Hi, I have booked for an EV charger install through Hive and it asked me to do a survey, one of the questions was to take a picture of the earthing on the incoming water pipe. My pipework seems to run either under the floor or between the walls (1995 build) the water meter and only accessible...

Hi all, We have a conservatory (Wife calls it an orangery....), it gets cold in there as it has a glass roof and there is no point putting the heating on to warm it, we only really use the room during spring, summer and Autumn, during winter we don't use it at all. Separating the two rooms is...

Hi, I currently have raised beds in an area of my garden that will soon be out of view behind my garden pergola bar, the raised bed is the exact width of my small plastic shed and I have been thinking of utilising this space and putting my shed up on it. The height is about a foot off the...

Hiya, making a bar out of our Pergola and looking at roofing options. Do I go with flat clear panels or the corrugated ones, what is the benfit of each please? Are these easy to fit? Size needed is 2.5m squared. Where is a good place that sells them please. Ty

Hiya, Attached is a picture of my current deck which was treated a few years ago with the Screwfix no nonsense deck stain, the other pic is how I want it to look (edited photo) what steps, processes, chemicals or machinery do you kind folks recommend to get the deck floor looking like that please.

Hello, finally got my decking down (first half anyway) I now have a gap between my decking and the existing flags, the height also differs as I needed runoff for water. Any ideas on how to make this neater please?

Nearly finished my timber frame for composite decking, none of the wood Will be touching the floor as I am using plastic legs etc, the timber is C16 treated and I have used some cut edge treatment for any cuts, is there any benefit to treating it all over with some product before I finally fit...

Hi, doing some decking and I need to fit my wooden subframe to the wall (beneath the DPC) I have spacers for the back of it so it sits off the wall, what is the best practice here please? Do I offer it up level then drill through the wood and the wall at the same time or pre drill holes in the...

Hi, building a wooden frame for a raised composite deck, the deck will be fixed to the house on one edge (2.5m L x 2.5m W), clay soil, thinking of using post mix in a 100mm hole and plastic decking height adjustable legs. Will this be solid enough and how many will I need please?

Hi, I want to deck 2 areas of my garden with composite decking, just looking for advice please. Area one is 2.5m x 2.5m and area 2 is 2.9m x 2.7m, area one leads to area 2 which is higher. Area 1 is already decked but with wooden deck boards so I am hoping my original frame is still sound I will...

Hi all, I had a stone circle here and we have just got rid of it, any ideas on what to do with this space please? I want to flag it or those cobbles that are joined up together however whilst quite good at DIY I have never done flagging before, what’s an easy job for this space please? Could I...

Hi, we have an outdoor drain grid type jobbie that has got blocked a couple of times now, I stupidly decked over the top of it but still have access if required. Little stones and some soil end up in there because the ground level is higher than the grid. I scooped everything out and it’s clear...

Hi, we had a leak and replaced our laminate floor with LVT (a lot thinner), now I get draughts from under the kitchen units, no visible gap from standing height but there is a lot of gap there. I am going to use expanding foam to seal between the wall and floor behind the units but should there...

Hi all, I have those Hive thermostats on the rads (apart from the front room and 2 bathrooms) I work from home and was wondering if it’s cheaper to heat the one room with a 1kw fan heater or via the CH Gas cost 5.87p per KWH 11 rads in total, when isolating 1 rad 4 will be on Electricity...

Hello, I am a Tesla w@nker and currently get by with just using a granny charger, we don’t have a dedicated wall charger and use a 3 pin socket to charge as this gives us enough overnight for our daily usage, think it only charges at about 8amps but it works. However we have recently moved to an...

Hi, I have one of those 3D wooden world maps on my wall, the couch is directly underneath it offering a place to potentially hid things, what I want is some kind of LED colour changing strip that will some how highlight the map but remain unseen from just behind the couch. Does such a product...

Hi all, I can’t get my bins down the side of my house meaning we have to store them at the front of the house so I want to make them as inoffensive as possible and protected from winds etc. I have seen these advertised online but they are very expensive and you still have to buy the rocks to...

Hi, we have a single socket in outer bedroom which I want to covert to a double and relocate to another wall close by, both old and new locations are accessible from a now unused Airing cupboard which used to have the old boiler storage tank in it. I want to use this cupboard to store my tools...

Hello, We have 3 large recycling bins plus a smaller general waste bin, everyone else on our street stores them in their back garden but our ginnle to the back is not really wide enough and next doors fire flue blocks the way a little. I want to store them at the front but in one of those bin...

Hiya, My bathroom lights are LED GU10’s, worked fine for ages but one by one stopped working and now the odd one is slightly lit intermittently, is this how LEDs die or do I need special ones for the bathroom please? I know the circuit is fine as the fan works. We are using the light on the...