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Guys, I currently have an external light outside my front door with an integrated PIR which works great, but as the path runs along down the side of the house, and now have a lovely new block paving path, i also want to add another light with PIR at the end of the house so that both lights will...

We currently have a raised desking with a pond that goes slightly under the pond by about .5ft, but would like to improve on this and get the pond to run under the decking as far as possible, dependant of desking support structure. Onviously, there's no point in having the pond under the...

Morning guys, currently re-doing the Livingroom and the misses wants to replace the old gas fire with a new surround and fire, whereas I want to install an open coal\log fire. Currently the gas fire has been removed and a chimney sweeper coming today. The fire space is completely clear and ass...

Our hallway ceiling has nasty textured ceilings and therefore as we want a smooth finish I have ripped down the old plasterboard & reboarded the ceiling, and will get a man in to skim. Anyway, stupidly, I reboarded brown side visible, even though on the board is says plaster other side. Will...

We have a outside kitchen waster/run off drian that keeps getting blocked, possibly by neigbours & therefore called a man in to flush drains. Anyway, they were unsuccesssful in clearing the bloackage. I therefore decided to excuvate the area to find out what way the drains flow & see what i...

I currently have a large shed with lots of marine fish tanks in containing corals. Currently, the shed has a felt/chipboard roof & the tanks are lit by powerful lights. I was thinking about replacing the existing roof with say triple walled polycarbonate to allow the corals natural sunlight...

I plan to render a soil retaining wall, but would i need to seal the wall first? if so, what with? and then, what render mix would be best? and then finally, any special type of paint? * Mod's please do not lock this thread on the grounds that its a duplicate thread as if you had left...

I plan to render a soil retaining wall, but would i need to seal the wall first? if so, what with? and then, what render mix would be best? and then finally, any special type of paint?

I plan to render a soil retaining wall, but would i need to seal the wall first? if so, what with? and then, what render mix would be best? and then finally, any special type of paint?

I want to render an retaining wall, but would i need to seal the wall first & then what render mix should i use? once rendered, i want to paint, so what paint would be the best? Thanks,

Really stupid question, but going to put some coving up & plan to put the moulded corner pieces that go over the coving so dont have to miter. Anway i plan to buy the corner mouldings online, but have confused myself with what is an internal & external corner. A normal square room would have 4...

I have a 1.5ft brick retaining wall that i want to render and paint. The wall has several pillars in the middle for steps. Not knows anything about rendering, what is the best way to render this? Tar, Stu

Guys, wiring up some decking lights & have a problem with the switch. I have brought a 1 gang external switch & confused about wiring it up. The earth is easy as they goes on the socket back plate. But what about the live/nutural as the light switch has "com", "1way" & "2way". From the...

I currently have a concrete slab patio (600mm x 600mm x 2" slabs) covering an area of about 20ft x 30ft. I want to replace this patio with a more modern sandstone effect patio and wanted to know the views on over laying the slabs as there are so many slabs to would take ages to lift, then...

I am looking at replacing a standard white light switch to a black nickel light switch, but a little confused. This light switch is a double switch used to turn on/off an external light & an on/off for a ceiling rose. I have been looking at switches, and belive i will need a 2 gang switch, and...

I am looking to insulate a shed as I keep marine fish and have insualated the floor, walls, installed secondary glazing and now moving on to the roof. I plan to insulate between the supports & need advise on whats the better insulator. I was planning on using the dense foam stuff with silver...

I am due to lay a tiled floor in an extension and was considering undertile heating, but having problems figuring out the cost/how much I will need. The room size is 4m x 3.5m = 14square meters. But getting confused with heating mat coverage For floor areas measuring 3.2 - 4.0m2 does...

I am going to be tiling a concrete screed floor soon, but a little nervous about getting the tiles even. fortunately the floor is even, and therefore the only thing that can ruin it is if i bed the tiles to firm, whilst other not so firm. Therefore I was thinking about laying the adhesive and...

I am getting a sparky friend to wire up a shed & will be putting in a 4way RCD consumer unit to manage the sockets (1), Lights (2) and external socket (3), plus leaving 1 spare in the CU. He is taking his time and therefore to hurry things along I am going to buy the CU, but as the price varies...

I am thinking about taking up an old concrete slab patio and replacing with more modern sandstone apperance slabs. Is there a site that offers a tool there if i enter my garden dimensions with will work out how many i need and display the layout with a combination of 600x600mm, 600x300mm &...