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Hi, I want to change the doorway for the bathroom 90deg round the same solid wall. In the loft I have located where this wall is to try and indenting whether it is load bearing. Where the door way is now the joists run perpendicular to the wall and the wall I want to move to has a...

Ok so what the main goal is to get a double socket and a fused spur for some deck lights in the garden. What I currently have is an outhouse/conservatory which has one double socket which comes straight from the db but it is not a circuit. There is a single socket in the house ring in the...

Morning, Bought a dewalt 2kg 3 mode sds drill from screwfix under a year ago and whilst the drill still works the chuck is so worn the bits fall out and wobble. Can I take it back with receipt or is it a painful process?

Started a damp proofing job today. Hack off old render on party wall, drill and inject then render and skim. There's a section of the wall that was covered by wood cladding that's so damp the concrete bricks have actually crumbled away leaving couple of large areas where it goes straight in...

Would using half a bag of cement and 2 bags of sand give a correct 4:1 mix. Or should it be gauged in a bucket etc. Always done it this way but just wanted to check. Also we all know 4:1 or 5:1 for internal but question is why? Some people say should be 3:1, would a stronger mix mean more...

Well what started as an easy job is turning out to be the opposite. Working in a customers house in a bedroom plastering the room etc so taken the rad off and she's mentioned new TRV so thought yep easy enough, done a few now. So I was going to shut the water supply off to the combi boiler...

Going to look at a job tomo where the bottom 3 or 4 courses of bricks have spalled. Been to house before and from the ground the first 3 or 4 bricks are painted then the rest of the bungalow is rendered with a bellcast. It is concrete slab or flags all around the perimeter. I think the...

Hi, Been asked to do a small job, it's the bottom 4 or 5 bricks from the floor level to the bellcast of the render that requires painting, which is simple enough. However on closer inspection the bricks are in bad shape and the face of them has split and cracked so it will look terrible when...

Need some help understanding the 110v site transformers... Want to know whether i should get a 3.3kva or a 5kva transformer. Can get the 5kva second hand for the same price of a 3.3. Would anyone advise against a second hand one? I will be mainly running a 1800w mixing drill and some...

Hi I have a conservatory/outhouse that is actually two halves built separately by previous owners. Half is very good including the tiled floor which is solid and level and the second half is not so good and the floor is 60mm lower. I'm going to screed the lower floor to raise it but what I...