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Hi guys, Popped round to a friend's tonight whose showers stopped working at the house they just bought…money is tight for them and they know I’m a DIYer so asked for some assistance. I have suggested the connection might have been loose on the terminal which has caused the melting of the...

Hi team, I’ve fitted my roof for my garage with will have a vaulted ceiling. I’m not sure if there’s a particular hanger that is recommended for rather end? I have some High Wind Ties like the attached Or is there something better you’d recommend? Thanks Andy

I plan to build a double-skinned garden wall that will be around 80cm above ground level - basically high enough to discourage dogs from running onto our garden and to deter kids from walking on it. Below top-soil the ground is really just sand (as we're near the dunes at the beach). Some...

Every time I try and upload a photo from my iPhone I get the following message. I appreciate images are getting bigger in size nowadays, but also hosting memory is cheap. For those of us that try to keep build threads on here, it’s very inconvenient to not be able to upload images easily.

Hey folks, I'm in the process of building my garage with regular cavity walls, but I'm thinking ahead to the steels above the openings. I have a 3.5m span at the back for a bi-fold door and a 4.5m span at the front for the garage door opening. I'm going to have one course of blockwork above...

Anyone started getting these when they come to the site? Random ads for video games etc? I appreciate the site needs to raise income from ads, but these are very intrusive and off putting.

I realised our dining table could be extended a lot further than the one extension piece that came with it. So a bit of DIY on Christmas Eve (in my Christmas jumper) with an offcut of OSB and hey presto…more elbow room for tomorrow! Merry Christmas folks!

When I did my extension a few years back I ordered dense concrete trench blocks. There were massive, something like 215 x 215 x 300 so we’re easy enough to lift. I’m just about to start my garage build so planned to use the same, but all I can seem to find now are the lightweight / aerated kind...

Asking for a friend, any idea how to recreate this render pattern? Thanks

I'm not really into cycling, but for a couple of weeks a year I like having the Tour de France on in the background when I'm working, as they TV channel make it a lovely spectacle of all the French villages, tourist spots, etc (yes, scoundrels the lot of them I know). Fair play to Mark...

Hi folks, I have moved into a new office space for my small company, which is within a larger office building which has been subdivided by the landlord. I planned to put two meeting rooms in one side of the office, which entails building two stud walls and using some glass partitions/doors...

My parents have had a new door fitted by a Certass fitter. The only door was a wooden one with a chunky wooden frame. New door is upvc and is set back a little from the old one. In my view, the bricks above the door should be supported with an angle iron or something. At the moment there’s...

Seem the criteria for naming storms comes from the impact they can cause. Today’s storm has been pretty bad (at least here in liverpool), and seems combined with high tides has caused flooding around the country…but yet the storm remains nameless. BTW I think the idea of naming storms is...

Apparently the new name for GB News. Made me chuckle :D

Hi Folks, Making slow progress with my detached garage build, but I've got to the point of getting quotes for groundworks. I live on former sand dunes, so a special foundation was always going to be needed - raft or piles. My initial thoughts had been a raft foundation, as I am a touch over...

Hi Folks, Looking to replace a couple of reflectors on my trailer and they’ve all been riveted in. I’ve drilled a couple out (see picture) but can’t seem to find any equivalent rivets with a flange on both sides. Can someone point me in the right direction of where to buy these please? Also...

Hey guys, As some of you may know, we've built an extension on the side of our house over the past few years. I now want to put in PP for my detached garage, as I've definitely decided I want it <2m from the boundary (1.3m in fact) and it'll be 4m high, so PP it is! The problem I have is that...

Anyone know if this sort of tool is worth the money (£55) for removing car tyres? I have 9 tyres to do (2 sets and a spare) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204401267931?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=-gfqthrrqbo&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=lrAhcXmlTuO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Any...

My mate’s new place, which is a fixer upper. Unfortunately the stopcock is leaking from the tap thread. Ideally you’d replace the whole pipe but he’s not got the money for that. I’ve done a bit of diy plumbing but never worked on lead before, so looking for some steer here before messing...

Hey all, I want to run a water feed to my planned garage. I plan to t off from the pluming in the house and take the MDPE pipe out of the wall using a hockey stick pipe and insuduct. I thought that would work, but I’m being scuppered by the house foundations which extend out further than the...