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    How to tidy this rough patio edging....

    Hello all, We moved in to our house in the winter and have left the garden untouched really so I'm finally turning my attention to the it now that weather is getting better. I'm planning on returfing thel awn but before I do that I want to rectify a pretty untidy job from whoever built the...
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    Slightly loose floor tiles

    Hi all, recently bought a house that has underfloor heating downstairs. It was installed when the house was renovated probably about 12 months ago. Cue us buying the house and moving in, i'm noticing with a couple of the floor tiles there is a very very slight tip/wobble when you walk across a...
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    Splitting UFH from main boiler circuit

    In the house we have just bought we have a Baxi combi boiler which powers UFH downstairs and radiators upstairs. One thing i'm not hugely happy with is how it is all on the same "circuit" (thats probably not the right name for it). It's all controlled from a Nest thermostat in the hall but it's...
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    Really confused about bedroom door sizes....

    Would quite like to change the 4 doors upstairs in my house but having a massive headache figuring out which doors to order and where from. I have an account at Howdens (via a friend) and upon consulting their door brochure theres no sizes that they supply which are near enough the correct size...
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    New internal front door and redecorating

    Hi all. We've got a small porch way at the front of our house which has UPVC French doors leading in then immediately in front of this in the porch is our main front door. Now the main front door is a very big wooden effort with some pimpled window panels around it which looks pretty rubbish...
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    Topping up patio joints/grout...

    Had my patio down for about 8 weeks or so now and got round to giving it a wash down over the weekend as I was using some rust remover on bits. The water (and no doubt some of the rust remover overspill) appears to have taken away some bits of grouting. Some of the current grout felt sandy and...
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    Removing rust marks from Indian sandstone (and general cleaning)...

    Hi all - just wondering if anyone has any experience with or knows what would be good to use to remove some rust marks I've got on one of the paving slabs on my patio. It doesn't look like surface rust so not sure simply power-washing will do anything! (however I am going to try!) If it...
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    Kota Black Limestone patio.... (or should i go Kandla Grey Sandstone?)

    Hi all, will be getting a black limestone patio fitted in the coming weeks and I want to do everything possible to make sure I don't end up with something that looks awful once its laid (as i've seen a few posts online showing washed out, grey patios). Should I be sealing the limestone before...
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    Patio build - anything to be aware of? (with pics!)

    Hi all, figured its that time of year to get out in the garden and get it sorted ready for Summer. Only been in the house about 6 months so I've got rid of some awful decking that was in place and we want to get a patio down. I want to give this a go myself instead of paying for someone (at...
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    Dry verge with spanish slate

    Hi everyone, just wondering can you fit dry verges onto a roof with Spanish slate? The contractor doing my work quoted me including fitting these onto an extension that has been built but he is now saying that he didnt realise they don't fit with Spanish slate as the slates are too thin...
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    Screeding (SLC) - floor prep

    Hi all, need to screed a small 1.7m x 1.7m area in an extension which has a new concrete base in it. Is there anything I need to do to the base to prep it before laying the screed? It'll only be a 5-10mm screed going down. Thanks.,
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    £950 for new Baxi Duotech 28 and new rad....

    Hi all. Bought a house not long ago and in the process of having some work done and our plumber has asked if we have thought about changing our boiler whilst we were having the building work done (the boiler is prob approaching the 10 year mark - its an old British Gas branded Worcester Bosch...
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    Chimney breast air vent...

    Hi all, currently got 2 chimney breasts in my house. One of them I want to block up, board over and fit a radiator too and the other i've opened up more in the hope of fitting a log burner in the near future. I'm just wondering if I need to fit an air vent of some kind into the chimney breast...
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    Can you have one RSJ rest on another?

    Just looking at some building work in my house and wondering about taking out two walls to open up the back of the house. House is a 1930's 3 bed semi. One wall runs nearly the entire length of the back of the house and currently has a smallish extension in it, the other wall is the wall...
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    Raising roof of extension.....

    Hi all, looking at buying a new house and across the back there is an odd sized extension of about 3m x 0.7m and a bit which is a bit wider of about 1.8m x 2m. One part extends the dining room and the slightly wider part is an outbuilding on the back of our kitchen. We're thinking about...
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    Removing chimney breasts...

    Would I need to get building regs approval to knock out our chimney breast from the dining room and also take out the corresponding one from the back bedroom upstairs too? Is there anything I need to be aware of when doing something like this?
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    Is this a massive job?

    Hi all, I am in the process of buying a house. It currently has a narrow galley kitchen which is c. 2.6m x 1.7m, I would like to remove one of the walls to open it up to the dining room. As well as this, there is an a small, single skin outbuilding of c. 1.5m x 1.5m attached onto the end of...
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