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Hi all. i'm looking for some advice and you experience of gravity wall blocks. I'm looking to build a retaining wall at around 1.2m in height in my garden. We've had a dig and still have black Earth to a depth of 1.5m from the lowest level. It looks like it might go a lot deeper. Our builder...

Hi, My mums neighbours are planning a two storey extension at the rear of their property. It's a semi detached with my mums house. The height of the extension will be overbearing and windows will now look into my mums garden. There may also be shading to her bedroom window but I'll have to...

Hi, I'm replacing an asbestos roof on an outbuilding with corrugated sheet metal. It's used as an occupied space with plasterboard to the ceiling. My main concern is condensation on the underneath of the sheets causing problems. Should I fit a membrane over the joists or would insulated sheets...

Hi all, Was looking for some sort of edging for my slate roof. It's to go at the gable end of the house where the slates meet the wall. At the moment dirt seems to come off the roof and is making the painted wall dirty. So to save having to paint it regularly was looking for something to stop...

Hi all, Hit something in the road today while driving through the snow. Might have been a lump of ice. It's caused some damage underneath the van, citroe n berlingo mk3. There's a dent in what looks like a small radiator and broke the plastic cover over w hat I think is the eolys tank...

Hoping some oil guys can help me with this one or if they have come across this before, the boiler keeps locking out every two to three weeks, reset and goes no problem for another couple of weeks. It's a sterling 133 burner. Totally random lockout, when its going all seems to be working...

I'm hoping someone could give me some advice, Our neighbour some time ago has converted part of their house ( the garage) into bedrooms. Our houses are semi detached cottages. I know they had planning permission and a building warrant but there is no record of a completion certificate. The...

hi all, new to this forum and was looking for some advice please. I recently fitted an MX element tray, 1200 x 800 quad with the riser kit and my customer has noticed a crack appearing going from the waste hole towards the back corner. The tray and riser kit are both supplied by mx. The...

Hi all, New to this forum so firstly hello to all. Came across a wolf boiler today with a massively fouled heat exchanger (outside) so tried to get the appropriate chems to clean it with no success up here. Request at merchants usually met with 'never heard of that stuff' What i need is a...