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    Metal or plastic shed? And how to line the walls?

    Hi all, I'm looking to get myself a new garden shed, i'm aiming for 8ft x 10ft. I'm not too sure if I should go for a mental one or a plastic one? Has anybody got advice on one over the other? I'm planning on putting a workbench in it, run power out to it, etc. I'll be keeping power tools...
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    Leveling decking over old slabs

    I'm planning on decking over an old slabbed patio and could do with a bit of advice. The slabs are 900x600x50 (about 50 of them), I don't have an easy way to get rid of them and i figured they make a pretty solid base for the deck, so i decided to deck on top. The slabs weren't installed...
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    Odd sized doors

    Hi all, I'm planning on replacing the old doors in my house. After measuring them I see I have a few different sizes. The existing doors are original, they've been panelled with ply at some point and have about 40 years worth of gloss on them. I'm also sure my door frames won't be square (if...
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    Danfoss valve isolation with no TVR

    Hi all, I want to remove an old radiator (replacing with a new one), it has Danfoss valve but I no longer have the TRV, it is in the off position but a bit of water still flows from the system. I cracked the nut to drain the radiator but stopped when i could feel the water was hot. Lockshield...
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    Copper push fit connectors on plastic barrier pipe?

    Hi folks, I'm currently moving a couple of radiators that are on copper pipe. I'm using Speedfit BPEX barrier pipe for the new runs. Due to there being little space where i'm going to join the pipes I was going to use copper push fit connectors,but i just considered that maybe i can't do...
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    Leveling out a bumpy uneven garden

    Hi all, I'm looking for a bit of advice on my back garden, i'm not particularly green fingered... My back garden, at at one point, would have had a nice "S" shaped path going through it, some flower beds, raised bits, etc etc. By the time I moved in to the house, the garden had been over...
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    Bathroom mirror light issue with extractor fan

    Hi guys... Hopefully someone can help me figure this out. I've just refitted my bathroom and as part of it I wired the extractor fan and shaving socket to the lights. No problem. I also fitted a mirror with 2 LED down lights, and for ease of installation i connected them with choc block to...
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    Ply lining over tile mortar?

    Hi all, I'm currently renovating my bathroom and have just removed some heavy duty floor tiles. They've left a load of nasty grey mortar that i'm struggling to take off without removing chunks of floorboard with it!!!! The floorboards aren't in great shape below and are flaking up when i get...
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    What to use before Multi-Finish?

    Hi folks I'm doing bathroom and the lath & plaster walls need tidying up. I've got stuff like crumbling screw holes to fill, a recess to plasterboard over and just a few other generally bad looking bits to fix (it all had pine cladding over it previously). I bought a bag of multi-finish...
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    New slabbed driveway and gravel path

    Hi all, Just looking for some pointers on my driveway. I'm adding two rows of slabs to get my car in on and then was planning for gravel all around. I'm planning to dig out 200mm all over, then fill with the following - - 120mm type 1 sub base. - 30mm sharp sand (under the gravel) or 30mm...
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    Plastic pipe with radiators

    Hi all, I'm relocating a radiator (or actually changing for new). I'm using plastic pipe under the floor to run to the new radiator location, can i run the plastic directly into the radiator, or do i have to connect to copper tails? Cheers, Iain
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    Moving a radiator

    Hi all, I'm planning on moving a radiator in my ground floor dining room from the current wall to the opposite wall (about 3 meters diagonally away from the current location). My plan was to use copper push fit connectors on the underfloor 15mm pipe. Run the pipe to the new location and again...
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    Moving electrical outlets

    Hi All, Hopefully someone can give me some advice here... I have recently moved into a fairly old house (60's build), it's been an older couple that's lived there recently. It seems at some point all the electrical outlets have been moved up to about 1.2m from the height of the floor, I...
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    Pressure Relief Valve Ports???

    Hi, Can someone help me to identify the ports on my pressure relief vale? (pictured). I noticed a pipe coming off my pressure relief value (directly behind the pressure gauge in the photo), that runs through my garage and is capped at the other end. Can anyone tell me what that would be...
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    Help to identify an alarm

    Hi, I just moved into a house that an older gentleman has moved out of. In the house there is an old alarm system marked up as "PAS Technology" and some sort of residential monitoring system, i'm not sure if both of these are linked in some way...neither of them seem to be doing anything...
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    Help me understand the heating system in my new house.

    Hi all, I moved house this week, from a flat with a gas combi boiler to a house with a gas condensing boiler - I understood the combi boiler pretty well, it seemed straight forward but my new place has pumps, actuators, etc coming off the pipes...I'm not too sure what these kind of thing are...
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    Interior paint on an exterior wall?

    Hi, If I slap on interior paint on a small patch of exterior wall, will it just flake off or will it last? Even if just for a few months? I'm patching up a flakey bit for the short term, hopefully without buying a whole tin of masonry paint! Thanks
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    Any DIY secondary glazing kits any good?

    Hi, I'm looking for a bit of advise on secondary glazing, I'm looking to get something for an old sash window in my stairwell, I keep seeing these DIY magnetic kits online. ...are they any good? Thanks!
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    Ferroli Optima 701. Work done but still problems!

    Guys, I've got a Ferroli Optima 701 which i've been having problems with for about a year. First i had the issue of the pressure dropping below the minimum, so i read on here to pump some air into the expansion vessel which solved the problem. Excellent, cheers! Over the past few...
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