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    Help fitting a heavy oak door to a cabin/fancy shed?

    I recently started converting a shed into a garden office. It's been slow going but one of the first things I did was order a new door as my cats could claw through the one that came with the cabin. I ordered a bespoke ledged and braced oak door (bespoke as its and odd size) which turned up...
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    gloss finish on MDF shelves?

    A local handy man has built some shelves in our alvoces. They are MDF tops with Mdf strip at the front. There were bare wood when he finished. So I set about trying to paint them and get them up to a lovely brilliant white gloss. I went down to wickes and asked one of the guys there for...
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    How do I finish this?

    I got a local handyman in to build some shelves and while he was here he boxed in the pipes in the toilet and bathroom. He used plasterboard and I have no idea how to go about finishing them so I can paint to match the wall: What do I need to finish that?
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    what plasterboard to use and painting direct onto it

    I am looking to plasterboard out my office and then paint direct onto the plasterboard. Just looking for some advice on what to get. This seems very cheap: http://www.wickes.co.uk/baseboard-square-edge-1220x900x95mm/invt/220205/ Would that be a good buy? Also what tape and filler...
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    Another, yes another shed/office/garden hideaway thread

    So I originally intended to build a shed myself and insulate etc mysel. This is where I am putting it: and here is a wider shot: but my plans changed in prep for this I bought a Hawklok (http://www.hawklok.co.uk/) basekit. I cleared the site and put the base down. The shed...
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    Advice on getting eletrics to garden office

    Hope this is the right place. Currently we live in a dormer bungalow and the electric supply comes into the house under the stairs at the front. I want to put power to a garden office I am building at the end of the 110ft garden. We have a garage which has a 6mm SWA fitted into it from...
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    Self build shed - help and advice needed please

    Hey all I posted in the garden section the other day looking for advice on insulating a shed to use as an office in the garden. The more I look round, the more I am leaning towards building my own. I had planned to get something like this...
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    Insulating a Shed - advice needed.

    Hey All, I am buying this: http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Wooden-Sheds/BillyOh-4000L-Kent-Tongue-and-Groove-Garden-Shed Or something very similar to it. At the moment there is a concrete base at the bottom of the garden (previous owner had a shed and green house down...
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    Soakaway advice

    We recently purchased a bungalow in west sussex which needs extensive works doing to make it liveable. This work is well underway and it's costing a lot of money so had planned to do nothing to the outside of the house till next year when funds allow. But having been down there in the rain I was...
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    Repairing spalled concrete walls?

    Hi all, This is my first post and hopefully it's in the right place. I have recently purchased a house which has a separate garage which is made up of sectional concrete walls and corrugated asbestos roof. My orignal plan was to knock the garage down and build an outside off in it's...
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