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Hi all, so after spending a week or so constructing a timber base, ready for the delivery of a prefab summer house, the summer house has turned up a different size than was advertised and the company have given me the “our terms state you should wait for the plans to arrive before constructing a...

Hello, due to unforseen circumstances, I have 3 months to renovate our garden in order to be able to facilitate a garden room workspace. I have no landscaping experience, but am an avid diyer and will try anything. I'm intending to hire a digger & dumper, scrape everything off of the top & then...

Hi, we have a 800 sink unit (575 depth including a 65mm service void), which is double door, so requires a centre post. So I intend to leave a 25mm gap from the front of the sink, to allow room for a slightly altered centre post to screw into. However, it means the sink is almost flush with the...

I want a 3 gang switch by my back door to control 3 zones of my garden, patio, middle, rear. Right now we don’t know where any of these lights are going and I’m struggling to think of how to do this. Do I take a supply to switch, run 3 twin and earth to a junction box and then run flex/armoured...

Hello, just looking for some opinions on these downlight positions... I've spent days playing around with these positions... The 2 rows of 3, they are 700 centres from the walls and then 900 centres from each other, except the middle one is 805~ centres from the 2 rows. I've spent countless...

Hi, I'm looking to put a new loft hatch in so that it makes getting things in and out of the loft easier, when we eventually use it as storage (Christmas decs, suitcases, etc...) My only worry is, where the loft hatch currently is (and needs to stay due to other limitations around the house)...

Hi, I just wanted to come on and see if anyone knew if these would be an old school way of ventilating your kitchen or if this is a cavity vent. My house is a semi, it has no cavity insulation, just an empty cavity. All the houses in the street have one of these airbricks on the outside in...

Hi all, just wanted a second opinion on this before I go buy an asbestos testing kit. My property has the remnants of an old gas air vent heating system. All that’s left are the metal ducting around the house. I’ve taken most out already except this section which is right next to where the...

Hi. On our survey we were told we had insufficient airbricks and that we should investigate for rot and damp. We have found no signs of damp or rot other than one area in the kitchen which is more likely caused by bridge cavity and a slow leak. While I’ve got floors up, I want to make sure I...

Hi, so I wanted to just get the opinion of some of you on here on my plans to alter the electrics in my kitchen. Some background on myself, I am an avid DIYer and will try anything once. I've had basic experience with electrical work and would deem myself competent in altering existing circuits...

Hiya, looking for a bit of advice. I was told when I had a plumber round at my property when I first purchased it that we were on a galvanised or lead pipe mains supply. Not really knowing what those looked like, I trusted that the dirty black pipe was what he said it was. I’ve ended up applying...

Hiya, this is my proposed plan. I'll be putting a 100x65mm lintel in across the horizontal line to give me a height of 1025mm (900mm when hearth is layed) and we would like a width of 900mm. My worry is that I won't be able to remove the bricks on the inside of the opening, they seem...