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Hi all I've attached a pic of a male plug connector I require. The male comes off a Halogen Oven bulb (which I need to replace) and it slots into the female on the Oven itself. The company, Andrew James, has closed down so I can't get a replacement bulb off them. Does anyone know what the...

Hey all My shed has been rendered but not painted, so I'm still getting damp patches on the interior walls. What's the best waterproof exterior paint I can buy? Thanks.

My shed is single skin breeze block and measures 6m x 5m (30sqm) with insulation in the roof (doing walls next year). I bought an oil radiator for £60 and had to send it back because the timer wouldn't work. Quite apart from that though, it was pretty poor in heating up the place. Even though...

Does anyone know a good site that explains how to fix OSB over Kingspan over breeze block interior walls? This is the set up I'm considering: But I'm not sure about dimensions for studs, gaps between studs, stud thickness, that kind of thing. Thank you.

Hi all I'm looking to affix shelves, cabinets, tool racks, lumber racks, etc in my shed but I'm not sure which plugs/screws to use. It's a single skin breeze block shed and I'd like to make sure everything is fixed solidly. I'm probably overthinking this, but I am new to this kind of thing...

Hi all I'm looking to glue the plastic vents in the link below to an unpainted fibreglass surface. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JVC5V34/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Is there a particular type of glue I should use? Needs to withstand the weather all year round. Thanks all.

Hey all, Before I paint the exterior of my (rendered) shed, I need to prime it against the weather. I'm getting damp walls on one side and even some water coming in where the base of the wall meets the floor. It's not much, and it's more, a case of wetness than actual pooling water. I've dug a...

I've just about finished cutting timber to size to support a sloping roof to divert rain away from vents. I was almost finished when I realised I probably should have used C16 treated timber. Not wanting to buy more (C16) wood and go through the sizing again, is there a good wood preserver I...

I've dug a trench right up against the footings on one side of my breeze block shed because I was having problems with rainwater pooling outside and getting inside the shed. The trench is roughly 16" deep and about a spade's width wide. A friend of mine said it's dangerous because the wall might...

I am in urgent need for some advice. The way my shed roof has been constructed I have vents above the insulation (warm roof I think it's called). The main issue was working within the council height restrictions where I live, so I had to place the vents in the plastic (fascia? soffit?) that...

Hope this is in the right forum. What's the best way to fill gaps between plyboards (other than saw straight in the first place)? They're on the ceiling and here and there they are about 1mm to 2mm wide. Nothing major but there's aluminium foil above them and it looks a bit unsightly...

I have recently built a block shed (single skin) with a timber roof. The walls were completed in October 2017. Today I found a crack in one of the walls. It starts at the top, and it goes halfway down. It's cracked on the inside as well as the outside. The floor around that area looks solid...

Hi all, I’m really hoping someone can help me prevent potential condensation problems. Here are the details: I have a single skin breeze block shed for woodworking (so plenty of tools that might rust). Shed measures 6m x 5m. The walls outside are rendered. The roof is flat, made of...

Hi I have got a bit of surface water around the sides of my shed. It's nothing too major but long term it will need sorting out. To do this I'm looking to dig a soakaway. I've included a pic of my back garden and the shed to give you a good idea of what's happening. The plan is to dig a...

I had my shed rendered last week and since them, we've had a fair bit of heavy rainfall. I checked a few days ago and there are wet patches on one of the newly rendered walls (see pics below) To be fair I haven't gotten around to applying masonry paint yet so is this normal, is this to be...

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Almost ready to fibreglass the 30 square metre roof of my workshop. It's flat-roofed with a slight gradient for water runoff. Could someone recommend a good fibreglass kit please, perhaps provide a link? Thanks all

Working on my shed I've a height limit of 2.5 metres. Is this measured from the outside of the shed or from the floor inside the shed? I ask because there's a difference of about 3"

This is starting to get frustrating I am building a 6m x 5x block shed in my back garden (rented property from council). It falls within the limitations bar one: it encroaches 5cm into the 2 metre boundary requirement. "Any part of the development within 2 metres of a boundary of the house...

Hi I was hoping someone might be able to clarify something for me. I'm currently building a block shed and it measures 5.79mts x 4.87mts (so 19 foot x 16 foot) This has a floor space of 28.19 metres squared However, now that the footings are in place, for some reason, having measured again...