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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

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??

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...

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?

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

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?

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...

Hi, I have a small porch area 1.4m2 in area that already has old tiles down. They are securely in but are discourled badly. So my idea is to tile directly onto. However what adhesive and primer would you use? Ideally something from mapei as i can get that locally from screwfix. Any...

Hi, My house has real wood flooring over the usual wood floor boards. However its started to squeaky at the door. How can i sort this? I cant get access to underneath and i don't want to lift the real wood flooring... Thanks Robbieee

At the back of my garden there are a lot of overgrown shrubs and tree. I trim these back but they just come back stronger. They poke through my fence and at the bottom too. Any suggestions how to stop this? I have to have gaps in my fence as that's what it's like all round my garden.

So... I employed a builder to knock a wall through, plaster and then install 4 door folding system. The builder knocked the wall down and installed the RSJ himself. He got trades to do the rest. The problem is the joiner has made a mess of the doors and frame. I had to sack them it was that bad...

Got a set of 3m folding doors. The frame "needs to be attached to substantial timber or lintel". Above it is a double layer of PB and an RSJ. Should I attach the frame to the RSJ? If so, how would I do this? Self tapper screw? If so, can you post a link from screwfix? I wouldn't even know what...

Right... I have a Bosch electric Rotak 32 at the moment and it cant handle my lawn at all. It sometimes stops with short grass if its damp (which isnt good for me in scotland!). So do you think I would get better results with a petrol lawnmower? If so which one?

Hi everyone, I have done a very bad thing :( I recently got 2 walls plastered as my builder is putting in bi-fold doors. I waited 5 days after the plastering to apply a 50/50 matt paint water mix. Not all the areas had turned the light clay colour (bad me!). Now i can see that the paint is...

Builder has put up RSJ and said he will do the red oxide primer when its up. I am sure he would have needed to have done this BEFORE the RSJ goes up. What happens if its not primed at all (I am sure he wont prime it)

Can someone confirm what the overlap should be on the padstone for the RSJ. The length of the padstone is 425mm and the length of the Opening is 2522mm. However my builder is just fitting a RSJ length of 2815mm. Is his enough for the overlap. Don't trust the builder (long story!)