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Have a very small kitchen in an old cottage renovation diy project we're doing and need some guidance on what to put where and what sizes will we get away with. In Pic 1&2 is an image of one side and measurements. On the right hand side of the facing wall were hoping to get a small...

See diagram. Garage raft foundation been installed recently and I've the first row of soapbars around the first layer of the raft onto of the dpc. I built up one corner 6 block high and finished for the day. Plumb and levels as can be but then remembered I forgot to put another layer of dpc...

The recent storm made mince of my shed but with Funds tight at the moment and building an 85sq mte garage soon, I've decided to put the shed back together stronger. New felt on top but now I need a few new barrel board timber and can't source anywhere local or anyone who sells it won't post it...

I've to install a new floating basin unit in a new bathroom for my sister in the coming week. Just wanting to refresh my memory on the measurements of the waste pipe from it. I'll be tracking the 1&1/4 pipe into the wall but at what height should I be coming out at at the center of the pipe...

Anytime I stay over at my parents house (which is regular) I'm hearing a small ringing sound in the early hours of the morning before I get up or late at night when I'm going to bed. Both times it's very quiet about the house and I then notice this ringing. I was thinking it was the...

Have two planter walls that's going to be filled inside them with stone and soil and decorative stones and plants. I'm wanting a few recessed led lights bedded into a 4inch block wall. What I'm wanting to know, once these lights are installed and because they are in a planter wall, is there...

Bought a kitchen hinge holes jig, put it against my kitchen cupboard doors and there a few mm difference. See pic. Now I don't know if the job is wrong or not. The doors close and look perfect on my kitchen. Anyone know why this jig is out. Surely this jig isn't wrong. Bought of Amazon...

Making and installing a few extra kitchen doors for my place. The misses ordered the hinges of amazon. Wanting to know will they still do. The left one is the newly bought hinge which is 24mm wide between the green lines. The original hinges that's on the other kitchen doors is 36mm between...

I extended my kitchen a few years ago and only getting around to putting the kitchen cupboard doors on after the misses busting my clinkers for so long. Now that I've made the doors, I've this small jig for the hinge holes. Looking any tips for it. Fair idea on what to do however thinking best...

See pic. Just bout a new trend router yesterday and was using it on a router table. Removed it and this part has came apart. Whenever I put it on and go to use it, it's still coming off and spring showing .. Is there something I'm doing wrong for this to happen or is it a faulty item. Ive...

I have a trend router table and a erbauer router which won't fit. Anyone know if I can adjust it anyway to make it fit. It's saying online that the table is TREND ROUTER TABLE COMPATIBILITY Trend: T5 / T5 MK2 / T9 / T10 (240v Only) / T11 (240v Only) Bosch: GOF 1600 A / 1700 ACE CMT: CMT 1E /...

Looking for recommendations for strip lighting for some planter walls, a stone round seating area and around a paved step. I'm wanting the strip lights to be able to change colors.

I don't know if this is in the correct section of the forum but thought I'd ask anyway Incase it is. I've had a rotary laser level for a few years and two years ago it got wet and the bleeper stopped working but the arrows that find the level still worked. I hadn't used it in over a year and...

Just looking some guidance for some strip led lights for outside. I'll be tiling this area 14x6m with a white planter wall on one side and stone radius seating area. The wall and seating area is 6m away from the house. I also meant the strip lights at the step of the house. I can take a 1.5...

Is it possible to use MDF for stile and rail doors with thin ply in the centre. I've been finding it very difficult to source joinry grade oak or pine where I live. I tried using pine from the local builders yard but the timber isn't that good. Lots of knots and small twists. I have all...

New 14x6m extension going into a 2400sq ft house. The house is heated by a wood burning stove and oil with plastic pipes branch system. In this new extension I'm thinking of a manifold for the rads instead of fittings under the floor. Is it just a case of tee off the heating flow and...

I have a gas stove for cooking in my kitchen with 6 rings. Lately anytime I cook on it my angel carbon monoxide alarms go off. One in the living room and one in the kitchen. Where would the fault be. There is no gas leaking. It's just when I use the stove. Once I open the windows and...

Just a random post. I'm left with these screws and bits and don't know what they are fir. It doesn't show in the booklet every screw and bit location. On the booklet, the stop and start buttons are located on the front but when I go to use screw location underneath, they don't aline with the...

I have 16 rads in my house. Got work done a few years ago and moved the rad with some plastic pipe. The plastic pipe was connected where the rad was, and instead of drilling holes through the joist. The pipes where brought over the joist in the void area then back into the same room on the...

I'm looking to attach a hose to a rad valve to drain down the system since there isn't a drain valve. Which fitting should I get to attach to the rad which will connect to a hose.