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Hi Anyone ever tried engraving ceramic tiles? I have just engraved a pattern on a glazed ceramic tile on a CNC machine with a diamind drag bit, should the surface be sealed and if so, what should be used. The one I have done will be used as a trivet, but I would like to create some more for...

Can anyone suggest the best type of bit to drill 6mm diameter holes in some 10mm hardwood dowel. The dowels are 180mm long and the hole needs to be down the whole length. What type of should I be looking at Twist, Auger or something else and can anyone suggest a good approach to getting a good...

I want to lay a thick concrete slab to act as a base to a telescope. The slab is to be about 700*700*600 deep. I've dug the hole to the correct dimensions and now ,because of all the rain, I have a fish pond! Is there any way I can pour the concrete without waiting for the water level to drop...

Hi. I'm after a bit of advice on building some brick piers. I have a concrete block wall at the rear of my property. It varies between 3 and 4 foot tall and is 1 block (9 inches) wide. I want to increase the height to 6 foot all along. My idea was to build some brick piers on top of the wall...

I want to lay a thick concrete slab(600mm in places) as a shed base and intended to use a maxibag of ballast and cement. Many builders merchants seem to offer only ballast with small stones. More like a very coarse concreting sand, such as this from Travis Perkins...

I need to build a new shed in my garden. Only a small affair, about 4x3 foot. It's going to stand on a concrete slab. Straight forward enough you may think. Now the interesting bit. It's to house a telescope so I need to be slide (roll) the shed out of the way to use the scope. We are in quite...

I need to replace an outside bulk head light as the old unit has failed. The light is to be attached to a upvc ceiling in an outside porch. Needless to say, the mounting holes are in different places on the new fitting. Are there any particular wall plugs for attaching fittings to upvc as the...

I have a bath/shower mixer tap which has started leaking. Unfortunately I am having trouble locating a new cartridge/cassette as the tap is probably about 15 years old. I dont really want to start removing bath panels (I think the previous owner seems to have made them a non removable fixture...

Can anyone advise me on what cable to lay between an existing shed and a new one. The current shed is supplied from a separate circuit on the house consumer unit, the current armoured cable is about 45 meters in length and is marked as 3 X 6.0 and runs to a small consumer unit in the shed. I...

Hello My house has roughcast finished walls which are starting to get a stain which looks red/orange when rubbed with a damp cloth. I gather that this is algae. I understand that this type of finish should be soft washed rather than pressure washed and preferably not with a bleach based...

I have a raised concrete area about 25 square meters with a shed perched on top. The area is comprised of two slabs. One is solid but has a crack running across it, the surface of the other slab is crumbling, but otherwise seem solid. There is a manhole on one slab that sits between the septic...

Hi We have just moved into a new house and in the garden there are a couple of large plastic barrels that would make great water butts, Unfortunately, they have previously used for growing and have holes about 25 to 30 mm in diameter drilled in the bottom of them them for drainage. Can anyone...

Hi I have a 4 foot wall between my property and my neighbours, the ground level on the neighbours side is about 2 feet higher than on my side, so when there has been rain, the wall (made of concrete block) looks quite a mess. I would like to tidy my side of the wall and was wondering if there...