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Thanks for the reply - I guess the only way to identify it would be to spend a night camped out with night goggles on? If, for example, it was a badger or a fox, how would I deter it from re-visiting? Are they a danger at all - do they attack?

What sort of animals gdig tunnels in the soil of my garden? In the vegetable patch, there is a hole about 10 centimetres in diameter which goes about 20 centimetres down before turning off to somehwere I cant see We have a problem with ants in the garden, but there is no way in the world...

This has got me stumped. Six months ago, I had a new bathroom done with new white ceramic floor tiles laid on to plyboard which was laid directly on to the joists Everything was fine until yesterday when I noticed two patches with a very light stain. Thought it might have just been wet...

I'm in Northamptonshire They really are everywhere and it is snails - definitley not slugs. Snails arents as bad as at least you dont get slimy fingers moving them, but it is really annoying.

Snails Millions of the buggers all over my garden Move a few and blink and then more have taken their place Why are they attracted and what is the solution? I don't fancy eating them, by the way

I am looking to lay new floorboards directly on to joists in one of my rooms. The feel of the tongue and groove stuff doesnt feel too sturdy, although I am sure they do the job, but also, I am looking for something wider than your standard t&g floorboard I have found Redwood PAR in 3 metre...

Cheers Thermo How much water do I use to water it down?

Do you just use normal emulsion watered down as the base primer coat? What mixture of water:paint? How long should the plaster be left after skimming before priming? What was the mention earlier of PVA about? Thanks

I have a quarry tile kitchen floor with Bitumen coating. I am having this taken up so I can flatten the floor, lay a damp proof membrane and finish with some ceramic floor tiles I had a few quotes from builders, but there are two schools of thought... 1 - dig up what is there and dig...

I had pretty much exactly the same work quoted from BG and the total cost is £3800 It wasn't too much more expensive than some reputable looking companies. It is a Bosch boiler. My only annoyance was that there was NO room for negotiaition on the price - it was take it or leave it. Don't...

We have a large kitchen and needed 4 metres of worktop on one side and about 1.5 on the other. Total cost with templating, cutting, fitting etc is just over £2k

http://www.thegraniteworkshop.co.uk/ http://www.graniteworktops-direct.com/page1.htm http://www.qstoneworks.co.uk/index.html http://www.polishedstone.co.uk/penquiry.htm these are the ones I used. The granite workshop one is who we are going with. We went to visit and it is an old...

We have ordered an MFI kitchen and went and got a granite worktop seperatly. The only downside is that MFI wouldn't sell me a sink, unless I bought the worktop from them (they are a bunch of cowboys) The worktop isn't in yet, so cant tell you exactly. but we were impressed with the samples...

I have an old lath ceiling which is crumling, so I aim to hack it all down - which should be messy, but fairly simple. I want to replace this with plasterboard and I have a few questions - 1, do I need a certain type of plasterboard? 2, any idea what the current average cost for...