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Morning/afternoon. as you may kow my front door lock broke, and I have had no luck getting a locksmith out to fix it. (If you are locksmith based in Manchester please check your voicemails :evil:) Anyway, my wife has now told me that she would like a new front door anyway. I have had a very...

Evening....or Morning. My wife and I are currently stuck in the house..............OK, slight exaggeration as we can still use the back door. We tried to unlock the front door this evening to go to Asda when something "snapped" in the front door (It sounded like a spring). Since then we can...

Afternoon / Evening all. I took this afternoon off to complete what I thought was going to be a 10 minute job...................Nothing is ever that easy :oops: :oops: After removing the old carpet from my staircase I was wanting to stop the stairs in my 1970s house from squeeking. I...

Afternoon board. Well 2 years after getting some fantastic advice on here regarding my Potterton Suprima boiler locking out. (I got the PCB changed and all has been smashing) I have now got a new fault with it. All of a sudden the boiler does not fire up at all but instead makes a...

Afternoon Board. I have been instructed by my wife that I need a new project :shock: We live in a 1970s house with a 1970s staircase. To start the ball rolling, and as we had nothing else to do, we had a stroll around B&Q The was basically 3 different materials to choose from...

Just a quickie, I am in Manchester (North England) and I am wondering is it too late to lay a new lawn? Currently I have no lawn whatsoever having dug it all up. I would like to let the ground "settle" over the winter However the dog is walking mud into the house and apparently it is my...

Hi. I have a 10 year old potterton Suprima 40l (connected to a mains pressure system (barratts house)) It was working fine for years, but over the passed few months it is doing my head in. (needing constant resets) It started off by becoming very noisy so I drained the central heating...

Evening all. I recently had a 6x4m conservatory constructed, with a double hipped 35mm polycarbonate roof. However i think the room seems quite noisy. I live about 1/2 mile from a busy motorway. Was I expecting too much as we can't hear the motorway from inside the house, but when we are in...

Hello, We moved into our lates 70's house 3 years ago, and it is now time to start work on the kitchen. We currently have a kitchen and dining room, at the back of the house, that we want to knock through and make one big room. The house was originally built with the lounge occupying the full...

As I am still mulling over the type of roof I want in my 6m x 4m double hipped conservatory, I wish to ask the board about the following scenario. I was going to Install a 35mm polycarb roof. One for the cheapness, but also as I did not want my neighbours to look in. I have now just spent the...

Morning. I originally posted this question in "building", but I sadly had no replies. I have now posted it in this section hoping that this is where the installers might hang out................. I am just going throught the process of getting quotes for a 4m x 6m double hipped...

Morning. I am just going throught the process of getting quotes for a 4m x 6m double hipped conservatory. The quotes are coming in @ around £10,500-11,000. (minus plastering/electrics/plumbing) My question is one company uses a K2 roof, the second company advised me that they were...

I am nearing the end of building my decking project :D I have spent the day constructing my raised flower beds, and this is where I hope I have not a made a boo-boo :oops: I will try and keep my question simple:- Down one side of the deck I will be placing a raised flower bed, which has an...

Well my frame is now built, i know have to order the 40+ m2 of deck boards. My research has pointed to 2 main players. Q-Deck and Arbourdeck. They are both costing in at roughly the same price £900-1000. My question is, is there any difference in quality of the 2, or are they just as good as...

Nearly there now. What is the prefereed method of securing 6x2" beams to the 4" posts. An M12x180 coach bolt or 6x100MM screw of some sort from screwfix/toolstation. Either way can you tell me how may you would use. I also read a thread where the post is notched out so that the beam...

There are many topics on how best to protect a wooden pressure treated post, that is going into concrete 1) Coat the bit in the ground in bitumen 2) Coat the bit in the ground in preservative (i.e. cuprinol) 3) wrap it in blue builders plastic 4) do nothing as the pressure treated stuff is...

Evening all, I hope we all had a nice Bank holiday. This question is aimed @ Thermo, as it was he who put the idea in my head. If I am going to support my decking on approx 25 posts, each posts being encased in a 12"x12"x12" concreete block, with an additional 1-2" exposed on the top so...

Good evening all ( I assume you are reading this whilst the wives are watching corrie/eastenders :lol: ) I have been told that this summer I will be constructing a 11m * 5m deck at the bottom of the garden. I have read numerous websites/forums, but I want to clarify my main construction...