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In the not too distant future, I intend to buy a field behind my house. Fencing it off is going to require about 55 metres of fencing. The current fencing in the area is a wooden vertical support, three horizontal supports connecting the verticals and then an alternating inside/outside...

I've got an old cartridge type consumer unit and the built in RCD trips, fairly randomly. I think its something to do with moisture in the air, tends to happen during wet periods, but it happened during the dry cold period as well last winter. Anyway. Since I cant really afford to have the...

My lawnmower is (I think) broken, after several years of abuse. It caught a piece of sofa cushion stuffing, made a burning smell, and seems to have changed pitch. Since my garden is filled with such wonders, replacing just to burnout again seems a bit of a waste, so I started looking at...

My Garden has a fairly pronounced down hill slope, that I'm just ignoring at the moment, it would need something like 20 cubic metres to fill, but it also looks like several colonies of mice used it re-enact The Somme. I was kind of hoping all the various mounds would be trodden down and the...

I need to build a chicken run, around about 2metres square, and say, 1 metre high. My DIY skills are, ok, although not really in woodwork, so I could a bit of help. Will this wood be ok? http://www.wickes.co.uk/sawn-treated-softwood/invt/107136/ I'm thinking 1mx1m panels, with the...

I've had about 6 tiles ripped off the roof in the recent bad weather, in three groups, all are right at the front of the house, so low down. I've had someone out to look (wednesday), and they're writing up a quote which I should get today. I'm just wondering about how much should be I be...

I have the older type opf consumer unit, it still has an RCD, but the mini circuit breakers are the pull out cartridge types, with a button disconnect as well. Thats the worst explanation ever. Anyway, I was reattaching a security light the wind had had its way with, so, I pulled the...

The Security Light in the back garden was ripped out of the wall by the recent storms (undersized wall plugs) and I'm trying to set it up again. The lights back on the wall and the wires are all secure inside it, but the light, and a kitchen light nearby both no longer work. A bit of...