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I have a few 2.4m 100x200 oak sleepers which I would like to use as gate posts to hang a 6ft x 4ft heavy duty gate using two 600mm hook and band hinges. One side is a brick garden wall and the sleeper will be attached to a pier. The other side is a concrete block wall with 25mm foam...

I moved into my house a year ago could not afford to do the front garden/driveway. I can park my car on the street easily so driveway is not urgent. However I urgently need a path to my front door. Currently I have used rubber mats on weed membrane to have a straight path to the door. Below it...

As part of recent refurbishment, we installed an open riser staircase like in the picture but in a narrow hallway which leads to the rear extension with nice garden views through a bi-fold patio door. The idea was that when we open the front door, the stairs don't block the view and make the...

After our kitchen worktop is installed I expect to have a couple of offcuts of marble style quartz. Rather than waste it, we have asked the fabricators to polish 3 edges and give us the offcuts - each of which are 900mm by 300mm I would like to convert these to hallway tables that sit against a...

Looking for a water softener and Harvey and Kinetico were the obvious choices based on feedback from friends and family. However, I don't need twin tanks (night regeneration is fine) so was looking at other "simpler" models - not necessarily the cheapest and once that can take tablets as well...

I am refurbishing my house and will be installing a water softener (probably from BWT). I however wanted a tap in the kitchen for just drinking water that is direct from mains with no hot water (like outdoor garden taps) Are there good brand slim/compact taps available that take in just mains...

What is the cheapest/easiest way to build a 3m by 10m patio that stands 50cm to 60cm high on uneven clay ground? I plan to lay 600x900 or 600x600 paving slabs on top. I have planning approval for a raised patio. Some options I have considered are a hardcore base with concrete poured on top...

I am in the middle of an extension and full refurb and want to fit Air Conditioning for 3 bedrooms on 1st floor. A couple of quotes recommended a single 9KW outdoor unit to run three indoor units for the three bedrooms. The cost was between £4.5k and £7k The outdoor unit will be fitted on rear...

My rear extension is about 11 meters wide and will have a 4.8m bifold door. The rear extension floor is about 140cm above the lawn. Work on the extension is underway and funds are getting a bit tight so need some advice/ideas on how to build a raised patio and 5.8m wide steps from bifold to the...

Me and my semi-detached neighbour have an odd boundary at the rear - rather than a rectangular garden, we have a triangular one sort of like shown in the picture (red area is council owned land and green is the neighbours - the council land is unused and overgrown and no one has access to the...

The rear bedroom in my semi-detached house has a dormer (same as all other houses in the street). This dormer which has a flat roof is attached to my neighbour's dormer so the flat roof is shared although I am not sure if there is a break at the line of junction (image attached) I am changing...

My semi-detached house is rendered in old grey pebbledash which is in poor condition. As I am extending the house, I was hoping to redo the existing house render and new extension in an offwhite semi-smooth render such as K-render (and grey anthracite upvc windows) I have just been granted...

We are planning a wraparound extension with a side width of 3.3m and a rear depth of 4.5m and an overall width of 11m. Due to various constraints including neighbours, the highest part of the rear extension cannot go above 3.35m from the ground floor level so we planned a part flat and part...

My semi-detached neighbour is planning to add a rear single storey flat roof extension 4m deep. He has asked if I would be fine to share a common extension wall which he will build at his cost astride our common boundary. I plan to extend in future so I am thinking that this will be a good...

My floor level at the rear of the house is about 1.2m above the lawn level. We will have a bifold door and want to step out onto a patio that is level with the internal floor. This means that the patio will be about 9m x 3m and 1.2 meters off the ground. We plan to have some steps leading down...

I plan to do a complete refurb of a 3-bed semi and wondering if can remove all plumbed radiators from upstairs bedrooms and replace them with wall-hung infrared panel heaters. The ground floor will be underfloor heated. So basically no more bulky and sometimes leaky and noisy radiators taking up...

The semi detached house we have just exchanged on is rendered in grey pebbledash as are most houses in the close including the attached neighbour My family hate the pebbledash and we want to replace it with smooth white or off-white render along with some other building works we have to do...

Hi, Need some urgent advise as we are in the process of submitting an offer and this will help us make an informed decision. Details - The house is unextended and is about 23ft wide and 26ft deep - Rear garden is about 80ft and there is 30ft of space to the side - The attached neighbour has a...

Need some urgent help, please! I am having a east facing conservatory built and am a bit confused about flooring. It's a large rectangular conservatory (3m by 9m) and has two manholes that the builder will raise up to floor level and we will need some sort of double sealed manhole cover that...

I am doing an extension and the kitchen will be relocated to one end of the rear extension. The internal dimensions of the kitchen area will be about 9 feet wide by about 11 feet long I want a U shaped kitchen in this area with a breakfast bar on one of the legs of the U as shown in the...