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Hi all, I've been building a garden room over the summer, using a timber frame on concrete piers. This was because of size of the room (6.5 x 5m) and also access (a long garden) making it difficult to pour a solid concrete base. Anyway, all going pretty well but I want to fit some bifolds...

Hi, I'm in the middle of a sizeable extension / renovation project, and most of our house has standard timber floorboards (30s semi-detached). Builder was going to put wet underfloor heating under the new extension and suggested we do the rest of the ground floor, but he's suggested we put it...

Hi, I've seen numerous opinions on this, but still not sure which way to go. I'm going to build a garden room at the end of my garden - 7m x 5m. I know many recommend a full concrete slab as a base, but it's not practical in terms of either making it or the cost. It's 120 feet from the house...

Hi all, I'm building a bed for my daughter, similar to this: https://www.rhbabyandchild.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=rhbc_prod482278&categoryId=rhbc_cat206019 I was planning to make the sides with plywood panels, but given that it's for my daughter's bed, I'm a bit concerned with...

Sorry, this needs a few sentences of explanation so bear with me... I'm building a shed from scratch, but it's quite tall (around 7 feet) and narrow from front to back (maybe 3 feet) as it's going to be at the side edge of our patio, and will store bikes vertically. We'll be changing the patio...

As above really. I've ripped out skirting in a bedroom in preparation for replacing before having carpet fitted. Turns out the skirting delivery is delayed, and despite their repeated - and repeatedly failed - promises of delivery, I'm assuming it's not going to be there when the carpet gets...

Hi, I need to replace one of our bedroom floors, which is currently chipboard. It's been cut and messed about with a fair bit, and wasn't laid properly by the previous owners in the first place, so I'm going to replace the lot. I know people complain about chipboard, but is it really such a...

Hi everyone, Pretty new here, but I've been doing a fair bit of research on this so plans are taking shape, but I still need some guidance on lots of areas. I've looked at the pre-fab sheds, and been pretty horrified at how flimsy yet expensive they seem to be. Don't seem good value at...

I'm about to pull up some chipboard flooring in a bedroom, which also happens to be in an extended bedroom that extends over our garage. So there are 2 things I could do with some advice on. Firstly, the room is much colder than the rest of the house, probably not only because it's above the...

Hi, I've got two bedrooms in an extension where the flooring is really botched and falling to bits. It's a mish-mash of bits of chipboard with various bits chipped and broken, so I want to replace the whole thing properly. So my first question is, should I replace with subfloor-grade...

I know this kind of question has been asked before, but I've seen lots of conflicting information and am a bit stuck. I want to build a series of fixed shelves in 4 alcoves, all of which are around 1 metre wide, and about 35 inches deep. I started building a torsion box shelf using 8mm MDF on...

I can't find this topic addressed elsewhere, so I assume I'm just the only idiot who's done this.. I did a huge amount of prep on my wooden floorboards to varnish them, and they looked great, but I've sanded and varnished two adjoining rooms and the hallway that joins them. The problem is...