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Hello all. I’m building myself a shed from 2x3’s initially with ply outer walls and flat ply roof covered in epdm but at a later date will add some cladding to the outside walls to make it look nice stood off some smaller battens. We’ve a load of fibreglass insulation left over at work which...

Sorry if this is the wrong forum but seemed most relevant to building. Happily starting to core away for our cooker hood and all the plaster broke off one edge revealing an old hole 140mm of to one side that had been rendered over at each end. Problem is we've already bought, built and fitted...

How much load can a breeze block take with the correct fixings? I want to attach some 3m steel steel box section running parallel, offset around 1m away from the wall, attached at each end (unsupported in the middle). Complete weight of assembly including brackets, bar and the load it's...

Is it normal for just about every socket in a house to be daisy chained from spur to spur and all the sockets to a single point on the RCD? It's a Victorian terrace so the wiring is old as the live is red, neutral black and earth is bare twisted pair, live and neutral look to be 6mm2 cores at a...

Hi. I had a couple of patches of blown plaster in an old wall I needed redoing. I was on the verge of trying to tackle this myself before a guy decided he could do it. When I saw the finished job it was just pure bonding plaster filling the entire hole back to brick, now nicely level with all...