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I have a wee lad who loves digging up my garden, so have decided to build him a sandpit to stop me from pulling my hair out! The only thing is, the cost of sandpit sand is exorbitant! I was just wondering if I could buy some sand from a builders merchants instead. If so,could someone give me a...

Dear All; We've been having a bit of difficulty opening and locking our front door lately. What seems to have happened is that the 'euro cylinder' has become loose, such that you can move it a few mm every time you put your key in. To open the door we now have to pull on our key to get the door...

Hello all, I am hoping to lay some laminate in lounge, and continuing the flow through into my conservatory, however I am at a loss for what to do at the transition where the lounge flows into the conservatory (please see photo 1). I know I need an expansion gap, the question is how to do it...

Hello all; While backing to get out a of very tight parking lot, I ran into a concrete post (which was in my blind spot, I wasn't not watching where I was going- I could see the one behind it perfectly!) and cracked the plastic part of my bumper (please see photo). We will soon be driving...

dear all Firstly happy new year! this is the first time we are putting in a kitchen, and as such we have no idea how to convert an 800mm Howden's under bench unit into a sink unit. We would like to take the back off so we can hide all the pipe work from the sink, does anyone have any tips how to...

Dear all; We've just had an exactor fan fitted, and are now left with a rather large gap around the pipe where it exits our external wall. Normally I would use decorator's chalk to fill in any gaps, but as you might see from the picture, the gap is rather too wide for it this time! Would it be...

Dear all, my husband and I are currently in the process of renovating our kitchen, and along the way have experienced a number of 'surprises', the pipework under the sink being no exception! We thought the pipework might be fairly easy to remove, as it looks like the pipes are connected with...

Dear all, My husband and I are putting in a new Howden's kitchen, and there is one small problem, which that is we have never put a kitchen in before (so you might ask how we got a Howden's kitchen? Well I have an account, they asked if we were 'in the trade', I am in a trade, just not a...

Dear all; My husband, who is an avid DIYer (and very active on here) is threatening to take down the somewhat flaky paint on our kitchen ceiling (please see photos), and skim over it. It is not that I do not want to fix this problem (of course I do, I spend most of my time IN the kitchen!) it is...