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Old concrete pad aprox 4" thick. Heavy clay below. Aprox 40m2. About a year ago, it was selaed with a Silka product (though I forget which) and then screeded with self leveling compound. It was then coated with damp tolerant epoxy primer, folllowed by two coats of high build epoxy garage foor...

I have a wooden (exterior) stable door, the top half of which is twisted. Any thoughts on how to straighten it?

Am using joint compound on taped joints. (Managed to get two coats on then had to leave it for a week due to other commitments.) With the second coat, having filled the joint, when I went along the joint with a knife, the compound pulled on itself, leaving a very rough finish. I suspect the mix...

Garden room - 2.8m x 3.2m Walls and ceiling lined with tapered edge plasterboard, sealed with PVA, and joints taped with scrim. The walls only have tapered edges meeting tapered edges. The ceiling has a couple of joins with square edges. I've had a look at loads of videos on how to finish the...

My sister has taken on a propety that has some unfinished work in an outbuilding. The electrics are incomplete and we will be getting a spark to finish the installtion and issue a Part P certificate. In the meantime, most of the first fix has been completed. If we leave all the junction boxes...

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I'm installing a raised floor (aprox 5m^2) over a concrete slab. There's enough heat loss through the slab, to make it worth insulating between the joists. Some websites I've seen mention adding a breather membrane under the insulation. Some say it's not necessary if using someting like foil...

Do any intermediate switches have built in terminals for the common wire, or do you always have to use a chocolate block?

Recommendations for a space heater please? 40m^2 wrkshop. Well insulated but needs something to take the chill off at the moment. I had one of these form Screwfix, and it was good for a few weeks, but died and they're now out of stock. It was 2.5kW and cost £40, so something in the same...

Inline, instant, elevtric water heaters to take a cold water feed and give decent hot water for a sink. Minimum power? Pros and cons? Good/bad manufacturers? Opinions?

I am looking for info on runing LED lighting for a small workshop from a combination of batteries and solar with mains charging power as a backup when the battery voltage is low and/or sunlight is limitted. Ideally I'd like to run the lighting on a low voltage (12v ???) circuit. Obviously it's...

I have a garage with wall and footings constructed as in the picture. (Not sure the embedded image is displaying so I've included a link to the jpg.) https://1drv.ms/i/s!AiSdxKZH7MXJgSeRBs-p7tS77CTH There is a significant amount of thermal bridging through the single course of concrete...

I've got an uneven concrete floor about 40m^2 that needs to be smoothed and coated with either eppoxy/resin screed/paint. A lot (but not all) of the floor has bumps and ridges of up to about 5mm resulting from a coarse aggregate and tamping. About half of the floor has some sort of paint on...

Does anyone know a company in within reach of Herts that hires handheld trenching tools like these?

Need to raise a sloping section of concrete floor (area = 3m x 5m with 50mm drop over 5m) so it's level with another section of floor. Is screed the best way to do this and if so, what are the considerations with screed adhering to an existing concrete floor?

Are insulated screeds suitable for a garage floor if they are used over an existing concrete slab?

We have a large garage that is going to be demolished and rebuilt. In the mean time the roof is leaking and this needs to be dealt with to protect the contents. The roof is part felted (flat) and part corrugated (with a shallow pitch). I've masticed cracks in the flashing with the adjacent...

We've recently moved house. The survey highlighted a couple of cracks running down from window frames, but said that there was no concern over ongoing movement. We just need to repair them. Interior is fine, I can cope with that. Exterior, there there's a crack through the mortar for 6 or 8...

I'm planning on digging a pond with one or two "courses" of railway sleepers around the edge, and there may be some soil back filled against them. The sleepers are probably going to be new (not reclaimed). I'm not decided on hardwood or softwood. I don't mind them weathering significantly over...

Exterior door damaged by rain getting into the wood. The wood is now dry, but there's a small area that remains persistently slimy, even though it is hard. I certainly can't push a thumbnail into it.) Any ideas what can be done about this slimyness as I obviously can't paint the door till...