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Been in our house about a year and a half now and I want to try and sort out the tarmac driveway. I did try (poor job) with a jet wash a while back. There is a lot of dirt which has got embedded from where the cars have been driven round the estate which has been a building site the whole time...

I have a Veritas R8 alarm system that was installed as part of our new build house. It’s a Veritas R8 system with 4 PIRs and 1 remote keypad located at the front door. Are there any options to upgrade this system? Whether they be texecom products or otherwise, but ideally I’d rather not need...

I’m about to start decorating the wall to the left of our stairs. It’s a 2 year old house so most of the drying/settling is finished, and as expected there is some cracking between the plasterboard and the stringer. I wouldn’t normally hesitate to fill and sand, however it appear that there is...

So I recently did some wallpapering in one of our spare rooms and it went pretty well, however one think seemed harder than I remember from years ago.... When trimming in the internal corners I couldn’t get it straight and I scored the plaster which is now visible and a few small tears in the...

So our landscaper laid our paving about 18 months ago in our back garden. He replaced the paving installed by the house builder which is level with the driveway where you enter the garden from the side. There are no steps, and with the exception of the fall the garden is 1 level. The paving is...

I have an existing lighting circuit in the garage which has a fused spur which reduces the amps to the lighting circuit. There are a few different lighting circuits but basically I want to add 2 extra up and down lights to the 2 existing up and down lights. I have already prepared the wiring...

So I have 2 LED up and down lights on the front of the garage and I would like to add 2 more onto the side of the garage which borders the garden. The existing lights are powered and linked to a switch in the garage and my plan is to wire from the exiting lights to the new lights. If I wire...

So I have a 240v electric feed going to this box on the rear of my property. I’d like to install a camera so I thought I could hook it up to this... what’s the easiest way? Most CCTV camera seems to be 12v or battery powered.

I had a garden landscaped a couple of years ago and a few of the joints have come away, it was expected as I frequently jet wash it and it is the resin jointing compound. However a few of the slabs sound a little hollow And has a tiny amount of movement (they are 900x450) so I am thinking of...

At the start of Dec 2018 we had our garden landscaped and around 60m2 of vitrified porcelain pacing. Around 10 Paviors on one half of the garden sound hollow with a couple of the show tiny amounts of movement. The landscaper is coming to have a look next week but I wanted to see people’s...

So I am attempting to make a nicer area of the garage with 2 appliances, 2 base units and a worktop. Potentially adding a wall unit too. This is what I have so far... pic below... I have made a bit of a stud wall to space the units out so I have a nice flat rear panel. Question is what to...

Recently has the garden landscapes and today I noticed that the resin jointing has failed and shrunk in one particular area. Is this just a case of settling or a sign of a bigger issue? I didn’t expect this type of jointing to come away so easily. The jointing was installed around the time...

So the air bricks at the rear of the property and the some at the side are damp, and water settling on the adjacent floor. Is this just the normal function of an airbrick removing moisture from below the sub floor?

Just to set the scene... I have a detached double garage which is fed power via a 13A fused spur from the ground floor ring of the house. This limits the future potential use of the garage and any other ideas I have which require power. I would like to add power to the garage directly from...

So as many before me I’m sure, I was attempting to fit a nylon self drilling plasterboard plug and I rounded it off with my driver... it was still quite proud so I had to remove it. I tried to replace it with a metal one but when I went to drive the screw in it failed and pulled out (creating...

No idea whether the builders did it or me... either way there is a small hole in the felt. I know it’s a secondary barrier and with it being a new build it’s not like the tiles should fail, but I want to fix it. Can you get adhesive patches or something for this kind of problem?

So my new build property comes with lighting in the garage which consists of 1 bulb... which for a double garage is not enough. There is one cable running to the bulb so I am planning to add 2 LED battens instead.. can anyone think why I can’t just add the second batten in parallel to the...

So we have a new build property... although we haven’t moved in yet. We have a double garage and I’d like to use one side for an extra fridge and a tumble dryer and I plan to get a couple of kitchen base units and some workshop to make it all look nice. At the moment there is just one double...

There is going to be a bit more room behind our garage than first anticipated so it has got me thinking what we could do with the area... any ideas welcome!!! We already had other areas of the garden for patio/grass etc The area will have a tree covering most of it (Common Ash) so that might...

Our new build house is nearly finished and I have a question about the garden that I wanted some advice on before I get landscapers round. Basically our garden level is generally a bit higher than our neighbours. Our gardens will be divided by a small section of fence and a garage. If our...