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Hope this is the right forum :wink: Getting quite a downdraft (but only on occasion) into my wood-burning stove. It's not all the time because the flue has been cleaned and only happens when the wind picks up. So to the question, what is the best sort of cowl to stop these downdrafts, as...

Not sure if this fits in on this forum but maybe somebody here will know. For our cooker, for the last couple of years we have been using a 47kg propane gas cylinders to supply it with gas. Our current one which was connected about 2 months ago still seems pretty full going by the weight...

We have a free standing wood burner behind which had been papered. Now of course it is starting to peel off having dried out so much. So what now? I was quoted £70 for a slab of 1m2 8mm steel plate that I could fix to the wall, and tiles of course are the other option but how and what...

Our kitchen has a floor made up of quite large natural slate slabs one of which has been damaged in the past and repaired with cement... and it looks a mess. Any ideas out there on what I can use to repair it? I'm thinking maybe I can chisel out the old cement and fill the hole with some sort...

I have an existing outbuilding/shed of a good size and which has a conventional slate roof. It's not really used and as it gets plenty of sun the Mrs has suggested we replace the slate roof with either glass a perspex sheeting on one side turning it into a sort of potting shed/greenhouse sort of...

I'm doing a renovation (aint we all!) and am rather puzzled by my lighting circuit. I have three red cables coming from the fuse (box) which feed the downstairs lights. I expected to see just the one red cable but three? Whichever one I disconnect, all downstairs lights cease to function. Any...