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Selling my house in 6-12months time. Doing up the spare room and spot this on the rad (attached pics) Want to avoid taking off and putting a fix in when its on the wall. Options here? Any help appreciated

Yep all 3.6m

The boards are all expanding at different gaps so I'm not sure its the timber

Timber frame and hidden plastic fixings every 300mm:

Hi all I installed a 9m x 6m composite decking in my garden. When I installed 18 months ago the expansion gaps were 3mm and perfect. Now they are all uneven (see pic). What should i do to fix this to ensure it doesn't happen again? Any help would be appreciated! :)

Laid a composite deck in my back garden 9m x 4m. However now the gaps are all uneven! They were even to start with and will expansion they are all uneven now. what did i do wrong? How do i fix to ensure they will always stay even??

Structural engineer has confirmed verbally its a shear wall

Looking to get an internal wall removed in my kitchen. This wall runs parallel to my joists. When i took off the frame I noticed that there is OSB under the plasterboard. Why is this? Kitchen cabinets on the other side of the wall so is this likely why? wall is definitely parallel to the...

So i had to cut a few hatches in my tongue and groove chipboard flooring, for my new kitchen for plumbers and electricians to get access. However when avoiding the nails there are some that dont rest on the joist. Is it ok to "daughter" the joist to support the new hatches? TIA

Hi all, A bit of help here please! Just installed my composite decking but i am just about to fit the siders and the trim. Fitted the board with the plastic hidden clips. 1. How would you attach the trim? Glue or screws? Screw into the frame or the actual composite board? 2. For the side...

I mean the butt joints

For anyone that has installed composite decking... What expansion gaps do you leave and does it depend on what temperature you are installing them in on that day?

well i thought because it was solid and i cant put posts into the ground as its massive rocks underneath rather than soil. I am unable to dig down to install the posts...

I need to attached my ground level timber frame for decking to a sloped wall. How would i do this without making contact and the timber rotting from the rain? any help would be appreciated

yes i will be fixing to the wall with spacers

Going to be installing ground level decking but its directly inline to block my air bricks of my house. What would i do in this case?

Looking to tile onto my wall which is a plaster finish and has silk paint on it. How should i go about this? Score the paint back to plaster? Try and remove all paint? Any special prep to use? Any special adhesive to use?

Great thanks for the advice. Well spotted about the back box! I took it out for testing the wires and the back box cable hole wasn't cut big enough, so it was stressing the cables

Back of old dimmer switch: IMG_1297 by robbieee posted 17 Aug 2017 at 12:18 PM Light fitting: IMG_1112 by robbieee posted 17 Aug 2017 at 12:18 PM

Hi, I just moved into a new built house (built 2002). I wanted to upgrade my two lights in my lounge. It current has two lights and a dimmer switch. I wanted to change the lights and put a two way switch to control each side of the livingroom independently. Two lights (i was mid install in...