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New driveway and parking area to the front of my house, about 130 sq metres worth. Sandy soil, v. good draining therefore want driveway to be permeable. It's wholly a private driveway, so only light use, maybe the occasional delivery van. We have a digger and dumper hired next week for the...

We are having air source heatpump, unvented cylinder, underfloor heating supplied and installed as a complete system by professionals. Separately, the pipework to the appliances and the taps is either going to be done by a plumber or I'm going to have a go at it myself. Im just asking if...

Can I just quickly check a quote we have had for the rendering of our new build, it looks like the right kind of stuff to me - but I admit I dont really know what I'm talking about :) Quote for proposed work in Cheltenham: - Supply & fit all new stainless steel angle & bellcast beads. -...

We'll shortly be battening and counterbattening out our timber frame walls to receive a rendered finish. There are two types of metal lathing, one is just a diamond mesh (what I'd refer to as simply 'Expamet'), the other is ribbed ('Riblath'). In galvanised form anyway, the riblath is twice the...

I have never done anything to do with electrics before, and had not previously considered doing any of the wiring myself, but speaking to someone recently it seems they think I could do most of the first fix wiring on our new timber frame house myself, with some advice. Earlier in the build...

The stuff we bought from Screwfix which is apparently the right stuff for the job (for taping joints in polythene dpms) is absolutely beyond useless! It's barely even tacky, never mind sticky, and it just doesnt work. We bought some Duck Tape to make a temporary seal, but it strikes me that...

Hi everyone :) Only stumbled upon this forum from Google while doing some research at work to find out about Caltite's waterproof concrete guarantee. Ignore the stupid sounding username - my name is Jeff Pike and I usually use the nickname '*****' wherever I register on one of these...