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I have a Texecom Premier Elite 24 which I DIY installed about 8 years ago. A few years back I upgraded from the old ethernet module and fitted a SmartCom and signed up for a Texecom Cloud account etc as I wanted to use the app to check on the alarm , make sure it was armed, etc. I'm just a...

Hi All, I've gotta make good an area at the back of my garage. It's only going to have storage type units on it, no cars or anything. And if I ever get around to knocking down the thing, it'll have to come up anyway. But it's about 1/3 of a cube, so a good few mixer loads and a good few bags of...

Since renovating our house, we've been very slowly working round the garden. We did a small extension a few years back (documented somewhere on here), then a deck and garden wall project and now we finally came to the side of the house. This was always a bit "no mans" land - it wasn't really...

Building up a solid concrete floor for a fancy brick-base greenhouse project - the finished floor is going to be reclaimed tile. When I built my extension I did the typical concrete and then 75mm of sand/cement screed and then ended up self levelling anyway because I'm not very good at...

Joyous. I've got an otherwise perfectly fine cast iron stack on my 1930's house, but while excavating for my new patio project I've discovered it's leaking (badly) around the clay connections. To add further complexity, most of this is under a garage / concrete slab (I'll get a photo and you'll...

Got a reasonable size patio (about 27m2) and I'd like it to be "done once"! When doing other projects I've never bothered with geotextiles but being on sand, there was definitely a fair bit of migration of Type 1 MOT into the sand before everything firmed up, so I'm gonna use it this time. For...

Hi all, This feels like it should be a simple question! I'm re doing a patio (Well, the old one was some slabs on top of dirt but y'know...) and I want to put in an ACO drain. I only have a combined sewer, so foulwater drainage. Unless I'm totally missing something, only the HexDrain Pro line...

I've got a 1930's, solid wall, build. I've had to excavate a section for some drainage work and the pointing is pretty poor - well, in fact, you can barely see any mortar in parts so I'd like to joint it up before backfilling. Just wondering if normal sand/cement mortar will be okay - can't see...

Morning all, I'm building a dwarf wall for a 3rd party wooden greenhouse, so it has to be single skin (as that's what they spec). The foundations are having to be way lower than I'd like, as I'm making up a lot of ground as part of a patio. As such, the wall is going to be ~300mm underground...

The drains at my house are really high (For whatever reason, 1930s build, doubt they gave a crap) as such I've always been constrained. I only juuust about got the fall I needed when I extended them for my extension. Problem is, I want to insert an access chamber as I'm rejigging a few things...

Hey all, I've got about 30sqm that is going to be taking something like 200 - 300mm of hardcore all in all to bring up levels. Somebody local to me is selling a serviced PCX 13/40 for £650 - I'm thinking for that price, I could buy it and sell it later. I don't really want to hire because it's...

Hey all, I'm building a dwarf wall greenhouse which is going to be surrounded by a new patio. I've settled on traditional strip footings because I don't really want a concrete slab on show, and think I'll get a much cleaner finish by building it with footings and then a separate solid floor...

Hey all - I've started my new project this weekend, which is going to be essentially a 30sq meter patio. One key thing, while not a driveway I do want to be able to bring a car or motorbike onto this. I've dug out enough for a good solid 150mm (lower in places cos I'm no digger operator!) Type...

I've just come to replace the valves in our kitchen tap. It's a £180 CDA tap that went in just over 5 years ago (Because of course it did!) Anyway, it's not gone well - the valves, and spline and handles are horrendously corroded to the point I actually broke the splines off each of the old...

This is mostly a catchup thread - I'm also very aware I've not gone back and updated my DIY Extension Build thread, but I promise I'll get there at some point! (And no, it's not finished...!) Anyway - the summary is simple. When we purchased the house there were some horrid and somewhat random...

Hi all, just a quick one hopefully! Ideally I want my decking to be no-step from the patio doors, which means the boards will be above the suspended floors airbricks. There'll be a void of ~100-200mm between the underside of the decking and the subbase. The decking itself will be surrounded...

Hi all, did my first bit of work with facing bricks yesterday and have some bad results. I noticed when laying that they didn't feel right on the mortar, there seemed to be very little adhesion much after laying but I'd only used engineering bricks with holes before so put it down to that and...

Seems like a really daft question, but my DIY utility kitchen install has gone well so far and I don't want to make it look crap at the last hurdle So, what's the best way to fit laminate upstands? Because of the design, I've got three internal corners. Assuming the walls aren't square (blame...

Hi all, I need to fit a door lining to a stud wall, so that I can then fit a bi-fold door. Normally I like to buy everything at once so I can get my head round it, but don't really want the door hanging around while we plaster and finish the room (it's a toilet, so still plenty to do in there)...

Afternoon all! We want to build a decorative garden well which will enclose our decking (which will be put in after) It's gonna be one brick (i.e., two leaves ) and somewhat rusticy so I'm tempted with flemish or garden wall bond. My query is pillar locations, really. I've made a very very...