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Hi all, I have a brick built single garage with flat roof attached to my house and accessible via a connecting door. I'd like to partition it and convert 2/3 of it into a space where I can store bikes, bike gear and my turbo trainer. I don't want to heat this space, I just want to make it look...

Morning all, I'm looking to use some 25 x 50 batten as part of a fencing project. I was looking a some graded and ungraded batten this morning and the graded stuff looks much better - smoother finish and less knotty. If I use the graded stuff outdoors will the blue colour eventually fade...

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Afternoon all, I need to change the backing pad on my Metabo random orbital sander (SXE450). I've got the new pad, but I can't shift the bolt to get the old one off! The manual says nothing, except "remove the fixing bolt".... I'm assuming it's a conventional right hand thread - would that...

Evening all, I've got a bit of a space problem. I need to run some cooker hood ducting close to a soil stack. There's not much room and there's no other option. The problem is a blanked off waste connector that sticks out a good few inches - see photo. I'm going to need to saw that whole...

Hi, my second post about this, hope someone can advise..... I've just bought some reclaimed Junckers sports flooring - solid beech 'twin plank' boards which are 22mm thick, 130mm wide, random lengths and T+G all four sides. The Junckers website has installation information for this type of...

Hi, I've just bought some reclaimed Junckers beech flooring, cracking stuff, 129mm wide boards x 22mm thick, T+G all four sides. I need to re-cut some of the T+Gs on the ends as the guy I bought the floor off had to cut some of the longer boards for transport. Would appreciate advice on the...

Afternoon all, I'm in the early stages of planning a single storey extension to the rear of my house. For various reasons I'd like a roof with a very shallow pitch (less than 15deg), so I won't be doing this in conventional tiles (might go for zinc if I'm feeling rich enough). The problem...

evening all, I'm planning to rip down a flat-roofed canopy that covers my front door and a nearby window. The plan is to replace it with a pitch-roofed structure. Simple design with timber supports at the two front corners, tiled with mini-stonewolds to match adjacent structures. The...

evening all, anyone out there with experience of using lead free alternatives to normal flashing? I've been searching around and have found something called Lacomet which is aluminium-based I think, and another one going by the name of Ubiflex. Would appreciate any advice from anyone who's...

afternoon all, just finishing a small porch which adjoins my neighbours flat roof garage. BCO said we could do the party wall as a simple stud construction which is all in place. I now need to finish the small triangle which sticks up above his flat roof and follows the line of my sloping...

afternoon all, when a flue disharges above a flat roof I understand it should have a minimum vertical clearance of 300mm but what about if it disharges close to a flat roof but not directly above it? In this particular case the flue is about 600m horizontally from a flat roof. I'm guessing...

evenin, I'm building a porch about 2m x 2.1m and have dug the trenches for the foundations - we're at a depth of more than 2m as the BCO wanted us to go to same depth as the house foundations. Problem is we've uncovered a main foul water drain which has been encased in a large amount of...

morning all, just doing a bit of light digging in preparation for a new porch. I need to reposition a rainwater downpipe - please see attached photo. After that s-trap thingy the drain looks like it goes off deep into the ground. I had anticipated having to dig down to intercept it somewhere...

afternoon all, hope some of you folks can advise me on this (sorry it's a bit long). I have a flat roof currently being constructed - the bottom layer of felt has been torched on to give me some basic waterproofing and the roofers are due back soon to finish the job. I'm installing a wood...

evening all, my sparky is booked for two weeks time but he's currently on holiday so I can't get him to advise on this. Myself and the builder need to get on with boarding and skimming a stud wall tomorrow but I know we're going to need some wiring for an extractor fan in there. It's a utility...

morning all, I'd welcome advice on this little problem...... [/img] I'm constructing a new flat roof that abuts my neighbours property - all above board, planning permission, building regs etc etc. Problem is that my neighbours flue is very close to the new roof surface, see pic...

Evenin all, I'm extending the rear of my garage to add a utility / storage area. All plans approved and work progressing nicely. Thing is, now it's taking shape it's looking like a more useful space than I originally imagined and I'd like to upgrade it from non-habitable (as per the...

evening all, just got the floorboards up and am starting to route some TV coax cable from a distribution amp to various outlets. I've got a 28mm gas pipe in one area and I've been running my coax next to this to make use of the chunky notches the plumber put in the joists. All fine, then it...

evening all, under my hall carpet I've found what I think is called 'finger parquet'. It's 1970s dark wood laid in a small square pattern. The carpet has to go but the parquet is just too dark for my taste. I think I've got three options; lay a new wood floor over the parquet rip up...