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    Re-fixing slate coping stones to a brick garden wall

    I have Welsh slate coping stones on top of my brick built garden wall. The wall is a double-skin red brick type and the slates on the top are about 30cm x 30cm. The slates have come off and need fixing back on but I have been given conflicting advice about how best to do so - one mate said that...
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    Interior French Doors

    Am thinking of fitting interior (pine) french doors to divide two rooms which are currently open plan. The gap is 1580mm wide. Any ideas of a decent supplier of such doors, plus the frame to fit them to, as there are currently no doors there so no frame already in place (solid wall on either...
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    What time of year to paint house exterior

    I've had a quote for £1600 (plus £300-£400 for scaffold) to paint the exterior (4 walls) of my detached house and have been told it will take roughly 5 days. Is there a good/bad time of year to be painting the exterior of a rendered house - obviously screaming hot sun and driving rain aren't...
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    Flushing my central heating system

    Hi all, I'm hoping to buy a fan convector heater to be fitted in my conservatory (a Myson Hi-Line) and the installation manual I've found online says that I should flush my central heating system before fitting the unit to the existing pipes (there used to be an old Myson unit where I am hoping...
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    3A fused spur

    Hi all, I'm hoping to buy a fan convector heater to be fitted in my conservatory (a Myson Hi-Line) and the installation manual I've found online says that it will need a 3A fused spur for power. The fan will be wall-mounted up high. At ground level, immediately below where the fan will be...
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    Heating & cooling my conservatory

    Hi all, Have bought a house with a conservatory which, mounted high up on the wall, used to have some sort of heating/cooling fan contraption which I'd like to replace. There are two pipes coming out of the wall, which I assume are coming off the central heating and these fed into an...
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    Leaking bath

    My half-witted brother-in-law fitted my bath and taps, but unfortunately cut the holes for the taps way too large (measure twice, cut once....). He added a couple of large, fairly solid plastic "washers" between the tap and the acrylic bath and siliconed them in place, but they have begun to...
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    Garden wall abutting the pavement

    I am looking to have a garden wall built along the front edge of my front garden, which runs long the pavement outside the property. The wall will be around 1m high, 3.5m long, then a gate into the garden path up to my front door, then a further 4m length of wall the other side of the gate. I'll...
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    Turning two regular doors into french doors

    I want to put doors between my dining room and conservatory where there is currently just an opening in the wall. I replaced all the internal doors in my house last year with untreated, knotty pine doors and would like this new doorway to have the exact same doors. Since the french doors they do...
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    How do I make an open archway into a doorway?

    My dining room currently leads straight into my conservatory through an archway (the arched bit at the top is one of those plaster covered mesh ones, so presumably easy to rip out if necessary). The room gets very cold in winter and very hot in summer so I'm hoping to put doors in the archway...
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    New concrete floor?

    I've searched the forum for a similar problem but no joy, so sorry if this is a repeat question - I am a newbie though! I'm taking up tiles from my kitchen floor but some are bringing up chunks of the concrete floor below with them, whilst other tiles seem to be adhered so fast that I can't...
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