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Hi all, I am shortly due to re tile my roof and will be using the marley ludlow plus tiles that i used a few years ago to redo a mono pitch at the rear of the house. My question is; has anyone used or had experience of using the “modern” ridge tiles with a profiled tile the same or similar to...

Hi all, I have recently completed a block built summerhouse/workshop in the garden. My intention is to have a flat roof with a slight overhang at the front edge. The building size is approx 6.5m wide by 4.5m front to back. My question revolves around the correct joist size for the roof. As far...

Hi Guys, Haven't needed to call on your services for a long time but would like some advice please... I'm currently replacing a lean to roof on the back of my house. The roof size is approx 6m wide by 2m long. Pitch is 35 degrees. My issue started when I began cutting the rafters in and...

Hi grateful for a bit of advice before I get the BCO officer involved with this and possibly get told off! I am currently in the process of building a couple of garden walls that will house a brick light in each pier. My plan, to make future maintenance easier was to run SWA from the power...

Hi everyone, New year, new problem! I have a strange lighting issue that i've never come across before and am not sure how to solve. The upstairs of my house contains the following lighting components: Bedroom 1: 5 x Mains downlights, 4 x small LV downlights (over wardrobes), 1 x 2...

Hi, some help with this one would be greatly appreciated. I am in the process of re decking the living room with a coloured dulux Matt emulsion. My problem started when I decided to try and cover up some dark tester patches that had been painted on the wall with polycell stain stop (won't...

Hi, finally getting round to sorting this out after months of ignoring it...! The issue seems to be with the power switch; basically, when it worked, the large square on/off switch in the doore would illuminate the program buttons, the relevant program was then selected using the 'cancel'...

Hi all, I am currently in the latter stages of completing a major garden overhaul part of which includes a new outbuilding at the end of the garden. The main feed to the outbuilding is 6.0mm 3 core swa which I am planning to run into a consumer unit to power 1 x ring main, 1 x lighting...

Hi, first post so please go easy on me...! I have recently had the back wall of my house, a single facing wall of a kitchen extension and facing wall of a newly built outbuilding rendered. Very happy with the render but... My dad helpfully offered to paint the Walls and even went as far as...