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I have a section of my garage as an office. Works very well, except it gets unbearably hot when the sun hits the roof of the garage. So I've bought a small "portable" air con unit. The office has no windows so I'll need to vent through the wall. Shouldn't be too hard as the wall to the garage...

I'm wanting to build a gravel path next to our block-paved driveway as the drive is too narrow to park in such a way that everyone can get out of the car easily. The path will not be driven on, it will just enable the driver to get out of that side without having to tread on the muddy garden...

Morning all, I've done a search on here and so far the only real solutions I can find are Häfele products which I'm struggling to find on a none-trade basis. I am looking to use an off-cut of worktop as a desk. It's standard 600mm depth, and about 1400mm wide. I want to fix it to a solid...

Really random question I guess, but I realised last night that my sons have been posting toys and other stuff up the flue of our gas fire. The fire is disconnected from the gas supply as we don't use it. I can't work out how to get the fire out so I can retrieve all the stuff behind it. Any...

I'm planning to put in a 2.5m x 2.5m corner shed as a garden office - http://dunsterhouse.co.uk/corner-log-cabins/2-5m-x-2-5m-coronet-250 The plot I will be putting it on is currently a veg plot (I haven't been giving it the tlc necessary so it's not produced much), and as such will need...

Last year we had our kitchen extended. The work was all done in accordance with Building Regs (we had Building Control out to inspect at various junctures. So far I've only had a certificate from the Electrician to show his work is up to standards. So my question is, which certificates...

I went to switch off the dining room light at the brass dimmer switch last night and noticed a slight tingling in my fingers. I went and got my electrician's screwdriver and found that when the light is on the switch is live. The wiring look ok inside (i'm no expert but I'd assume it was as it's...

Hi everyone - once again I ply this forum with my never-ending questions!! 8) It seems that the floor tiles in our bathroom have been laid directly onto the floorboards which are very slightly spongy around the middle of the room. This was done before we bought the place. Lately the grout...

The other day I noticed that all our lights were pulsing, like they do when you switch on the kettle or some such device. It was quite annoying actually so I did some research to find out what was causing it. Eventually I worked out that the pulses were in time with the pump of next door's...

If I were to erect a brick built outbuilding in my garden (within the bounds of planning permission exemption) for the purpose of using as a garden office/guest sleeping area, what would the consequences be of not submitting to building control? I'm not planning on doing this, but a couple of...

When we moved into our house there was an outdoor light at the back of the property that was operated by a switch in the bedroom upstairs (very strange arrangement if you ask me!). When we had the house re-dashed, the dashers removed the light fitting as we were having a more sensible one...

I've been given a Power Devil Angle Grinder and was wondering if anyone knew of a place I can get a manual for it? Or are these sorts of tools fairly standard across the board? I've never used one before you see :)

Morning all - hope this is the right place. If it's not please someone move it :) My block paving drive slopes slightly down to my garage and as a result when it rains some of the water always ends up flowing into my garage. It's not been a massive problem as I just don't store anything on...

I want to put a hook into the door of our understairs cupboard so that we can hang a bag on it to hold all our empty plastic bags for re-use. The door is one of those doors that looks solid, but is actually a veneer over a cardboard "waffle" (no idea what it's really called just sounds good to...

Couldn't think where to put this, so mods please move if it's in the wrong place. We've recently had a new kitchen put in (Howdens) and I ended up having to screw on most of the handles as we were supplied the wrong ones. The screws supplied were those ones that have little notches along...

I seem to be finding various contradicting opinions on this, but do I need planning permission/building regs for an 8x6 concrete sectional shed with a 7'6" roof that's less than a meter away from from the property boundary?

When I've finally got my garden office sorted (see other posts) I'll want to have access to my home network. Obviously wireless is an option, but the wireless signal in the garden is poor. My electrician will be laying armoured cable to the shed, so I'm wondering if there's some sort of...

Some of you may have seen my plans to board out our loft to use as an office. I've had a joiner in to look at the job and he thinks that this is not a good plan due to the way the place has been built. His main concerns is that the walls we'd be using to create an independent floor are not load...

So over the weekend I was prepping our hall for decorating. We had all sorts of boxes on walls from old phone systems and door bells that no longer work so I thought I might as well remove these prior to sanding and painting the skirting board. That was ll fine. There was also an ancient...

We've just had the pebble dashing on our house replaced. It looks great, but yesterday I noticed that some of the airbricks were full up with the pebbles from the dashing. Is this something I could reasonably expect the dashers to rectify? Or should I just carefully get the bits out myself and...