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Hi Guys. I have just had a loft conversion built, and hopefully finished by the weekend. As part of the work we had a new unvented cylinder installed in the attic ( same floor as the loft rad) with the boiler still on the ground floor. I have just noticed that the new radiator in the loft is...

Hi All, I have a small area of the garden that has crappy patio slabs that are all a bit wonky. I want to tidy it up with minimal effort (already done decking and other jobs during lockdown). The slabs seems very stable, including the 6 slabs in the photo that are a different colour that have...

Hi All, i have some festoon lights that I have just hung up in the garden. They are the ones that come with a 3 pin socket on one end, and a 3 pin plug on the other, so that you can daisy chain them if needed. It turns out that mine are a bit too long for my garden, and would like to take the...

hi all, i will be laying a floating deck for the first time this weekend, and all the wood has been ordered. i will be making the frame out of 2x4, and the deck is going onto an area of grass that has been levelled to my best ability. The decking area is approx 3mx2.8m. i will not be concreting...

Hi guys. I am putting up my Tuin log cabin next week, and I need help with which wood preserve and paint to use. I want a finish that is less like a stain and more like a paint. I have been told that Sikkens is a good brand, but not much else. We want a colour between grey and blue, but not...

Hi All, This Easter, I am going to try and lay the concrete base for my Log cabin. I am purchasing and building in the summer. So far I have had 1 quote which included some tree clearance and breaking up a previous base and small patio, which came in at over 5k!!!!! So I am going to do as much...

Hi guys. Not too sure which forum this would go in, so I thought I would chuck it into General. Next year we are hoping to install a Log Cabin from Tuin in our garden to replace 2 falling down sheds. It is going to be used as a bit of a dumping ground / storage / workshop etc, as we don't have...

Hi guys. We had some work done on our house a couple of years ago, which included a bigger cold water tank in the loft, moving the hot water tank downstairs into the newly created utility room and the installation of a big shower pump to feed 2 showers also installed with hot water tank. The...

Hi Guys, I am starting to cost up how much I need to get rid of my old sheds and get a nice new Log Cabin in my garden. When we bought the house a couple of years ago, we knew we would need something bigger as we did not have a garage, so this has always been the master plan. I am looking at a...

Hi guys. We are getting our bedroom floor carpeted in the next month in our 30's house, and one of the things I wanted to do was to fix the squeeking and movement before the carpet gets put in. For some reason it is the only room that does not have floorboards but Chipboard. As I was going to...

Hi guys. Before Xmas I had a bunch of work done on our heating system. One of the things we had fixed was a new Honeywell 3 port valve. Since we had it installed, in the mid position (heating and hot water) it ticks / clicked once evey second or so. Heating and hot water is working fine. I...

Hi all, I am looking to get some solar reflective film to put on our glass conservatory roof. I have contacted sun x and the quote so far is coming in at about £670 inc installation and vat for their basic dark silver film. This is a pretty big conservatory (5m x4m ish) Has anyone got...

Hi All, We have just bought a house which has a 3x3m shed that is on a concrete base. I want to knock this down and put on a 5x4m log cabin workshop. I was told that I can expand the pre existing base to cover the new required size. Is this something that is pretty simple to do? I am aware...

Hi Guys, I am looking at putting a TV into our bedroom, and the ideal place to put it is on the wall that used to be the fireplace. Our house is a 30's build and the previous owners decided to put plasterboard over the fireplace and installed a radiator. If you tap the plasterboard, it...

Hi Guys, I am slowly working through the list of things that I can tackle in our newly bought 30's house. One of the things that we wanted to do was for the main bedroom to have exposed floorboards. We thought that this was going to be simple as every other room had floorboards under the...

Hi guys. I have just had a quote of nearly £4k to turn my existing gas fire installation into a wood burning fire. This including everything including a £1000 wood stove. We are going for a standard box with a stove in it and a wood (or concrete wood effect) mantle and matte granite hearth...

Hey Guys, In the midst of buying a 1930 4 bed house. One of the first jobs I want to try and do before we decorate is to fully network each room with Cat6. I am looking to chase the walls (foot from ground), lay the cable, punch down and terminate myself, but get someone in to plaster the...

Hi guys, We are in the midst of buying a 1930s house at the moment, and one of the things we are looking to do is to turn the dining room into a kitchen diner, and split the kitchen into a utility room / shower room. To do this, we will need to move or replace the existing boiler. All other...

Hi Guys, Just had a survey done on a renovated 4 bed semi house we are buying in kent, and it has not come back good... We are awaiting back the written survey by the end of the week, but so far the issues are..... Leak in the roof, which has rotted and snapped a rafter. Lots of damp from...