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I have to fill some joins in freestone, what's best to use that will stay in there if i open the joint up slightly.

I rent out a garden flat and somebody else rents out the top flat. I've been told the chimney breast has damp on it ( this is ok as i have known it would need doing eventually) We will pay half each towards the cost of the work. The owner of the top flat is getting someone in that they trust...

Looking at a job where the gutter could do with being wider, there is 4" at the moment and its four floors up and they dont want the rest changed. Half way along the side of the house a lead valley goes into the 4" gutter which also restricts the flow a bit, and a union which is to high! I...

Have i got to use Dewalt nails for this battery nail gun. Just went to Trade point to get some and was told its a discontinued line.

I've put hardboard down rough side up, do i still have to use underlay. I do have a pack of that green stuff.

Whats the game when laying it under the units, is it lay it under say 300 then adjust the legs and plinth, In the rest of the room it can go wall to wall.

Got called to a house with water stains and black mould all around the bathroom Velux. Went up through the Velux which is a half tile up from a lead center valley. I took the tiles off around the velux and there are patches of water on the breathable felting. At the top there is doubled up...

In our kitchen we have a carpet that is stuck down to the concrete floor. I have taken one up in this kitchen in the past, what a pain, its not a fluffy one. Could lino be put on top the carpet or laminate flooring ?

Thinking of opening back up a fire place i blocked up a few years back. I think its all cleared out behind the blocks. Just wondering about the flue, is it necessary to have have the whole flue lined. Anybody got one, pro's and con's ? Any advice on makes. Also can i render up the bare...

Thinking of getting a Makita 18v li-on, anybody got one, any good ?

Anyone remember the name of an old felting. It was like paper to look at with string strengthening. Did it Begin with a C or S ? It was very thin. Just been looking at whats left of some on a old ex council house.

Need to replace one gutter joiner, have to put up a scaff just to get to it. I know they do a 150mm one.

[/url] Those wooden toggles with the rope through the middle of them has got me. The big clamp, is this for holding lead pipes while jointing ? Then there's that copper gauge thing with three points and holes.

I have the glass and have read the leaflet that comes with it. Doesn't look to hard but is there anything to watch out for,does the original pane come out easily after the screws have been removed. Its only a C02 so not hard to handle.

I have a few pairs of knee pad trousers,trouble is they don't do the biss. They always seem to be facing inwards and when you kneel down only a bit of the pad is where it should be! Can you buy a twisted knee pair where the pad comes around as the trouser raises and be in the correct...

Just before Christmas we had a power cut,so i look outside and the house each side of us has power.A bloke over the road comes out and asked me whats going on because his was off as well. How come the whole Road didn't go off ? why is it radom like that. I phoned up the local power...

I've tried all over the place to get one of these,even when there is a picture of it in the book or on a web page they never have one. Its the small screw in type about 50mm in Length.Most firms have the 15 and 25w bulbs. I was wondering whether they are not made any more,some kind of...

I've seen a few new garden walls walls around where i live with all this white stuff coming out. It completely ruins the look of the wall,why is this happening? It seems to never stop,is it in the sand or the cement.and what needs to be done to make sure it doesn't happen when i get a wall...

I did replace about six plain tiles,had to brush the snow off first,and i did have a scaffold. Couldn't see it improving so i went for it,rope,batten nailed to scaff planks,ladder resting on tiles. You know the game. Currently sorting scrap out and selling stuff on ebay :D

We have one of the older boxes with the wheel that turns,is it the cold that makes it buzz because it only seems to happen in winter.