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Wife and I are on the brink of divorce, we're on a weekend away in a lovely log cabin complete with log burner, very romantic. Got me thinking about my potential exit and how cool it would be to buy land somewhere and have one of these built to my precise specs. I'm thinking one floor, one...

Hello this is my sorry looking driveway. The plan is to build a waist height wall where the grass meets the swing and slide, swing & slide area will be artificial grass and the rest will be block paving or slabs of some sort. I had two quotes for Indian sandstone. One builder wants to leave the...

Hello. I just had the back of my house rendered last week. There was flaky old paint on the bricks so to save scraping it all off I had 20mm insulation boards fitted followed by an undercoat and then a white rendered finish (pictured) There's a single story extension with a pitched slate roof...

Hello. I just had the back of my house rendered last week. There was flaky old paint on the bricks so to save scraping it all off I had 20mm insulation boards fitted followed by an undercoat and then a white rendered finish (pictured) There's a single story extension with a pitched slate roof...

I'm having the back of my house insulated and rendered, bell box will have to come off. I don't know the make and model, it was installed by a Nottinghamshire company called 'cables electrical' they have a couple of shops and a few vans operating in the area. It was fitted around 5 years ago...

I have 7 rads and one ladder style towel heater. 3 of the 4 downstairs rads are cold including the pipes leading to the valves, valves are fully open. 1 of the downstairs rads is only 4 metres from the boiler and that one is hot. The towel heater and two other upstairs rads are hot but one rad...

I'm fitting some internal wooden cladding/panelling. Behind it I have chopped out the plaster back to brick and I'm now going to insulate the wall before the panels go on. This particular corner gets mouldy every winter or else I wouldn't be doing the job, it needs insulation and the cladding...

I'm looking to buy something like a transit connect, Renault kangoo or similar and then get it refrigerated. What would the cost of this be? I had a quote of £3,500+ VAT but this is a lot more than I expected.

I have an old house with solid brick walls, walls are cold and damp so I've put up some thermal paper. I used regular solvite extra strong but some parts of it are peeling off. I see now there is thermal adhesive which is probably what I should have used. Should I tear it all down and start...

I noticed this morning my kitchen ceiling was wet with a small damp patch, checked visible pipes in bathroom above and they are dry so cut a section of kitchen ceiling away and found two elbow compression nuts both leaking. There is only around 4-5 inches of space between a joist and a brick...

Id like to have my loft converted but the supports for the two upper purlins would have to be removed to create space. So if the purlin supports come out and the purlins how are the rafters reinforced to stop my roof collapsing?

Hello, the box room of my house has two exterior walls and I am getting condensation and mould growth in the corner of those two walls. It's an old house with solid brick walls, no cavities. My idea is to batten those two walls, insulate inbetween then plasterboard over and skim. Would this...

I'm just starting to think about getting my loft converted, I haven't contacted the council or any builders yet, I'd just like a few questions answered before taking that next step. First I have these brick and wood roof supports which would need to move somehow because they take up too much...

Does anyone have any advice on the best tools and methods of cutting this large hole ? It's to re-locate my bathroom extractor fan.

I've just replaced my 100mm bathroom extractor fan with a more powerful 150mm fan. I'm using two reducers (150mm to 125mm then 125mm to 100mm and then onto the 100mm ducting). I then have a cowled vent cover on the outside which fits to the 100mm ducting. The fan is fitted to the wall of the...

There's a large tree at the front of my house which sits on the border between my house and next door. I want the tree cutting down to a stump because the branches are hitting my wall and windows, this gets much worse in summer. Next door they have the same problem. However, the house next...

Hello. I've had some new oak veneer doors fitted and was wondering what the best products are to finish it with. This is the door http://www.wickes.co.uk/geneva-oak-veneer-door-1981x838mm/invt/180105/ I want a matt finish and a slightly darker tone, or maybe something that will accentuate...

I'm fitting some ceiling downlights in one of my bedrooms, I've located the junction box in the loft that's used for the switching of the upstairs lights. I need to identify which wires are neutral and which are switched live and that means I need a multimeter ? I found this one in...

I have a large damp patch in my bedroom (roughly 2ft x 2ft). I had a builder look at it but he couldn't see anything obvious from outside, only suggested I get the exterior wall rendered. Rendering quotes have averaged around 2k though and I can't afford it. The builder also suggested...

My girlfriends step dad and I fitted a new shower tray and enclosure to my new house a few months back. It was fitted wrongly however, the tray and enclosure were fitted and then the tiling was done inside the enclosure leading to leaks. Using a few tubes of silicone and even a length of...