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Hi all We have bamboo worktop and bamboo upstands to match. How would you fix this to the plastered and painted wall? Would you use the same silicon sealant that will be used to seal the corner between worktop / upstand and upstand/wall? Would you use pink grip? What else and why? Thanks!

Thanks Tet. I just never heard or seen about rubber roofs being covered with decorative stones, however seen millions of bitumen roofs being covered with gravel, hence why my surprise. Definitely good to know, will need to figure out if it is worth the hassle though, as it is a roof on the...

sorry who would be recommending stones and what for? I am talking ab out a rubber roof and not a bitumen roof?

(sometimes the easiest solution is the best!) :D

I'd then rather up a couple of old white sheets, with stones placed along the border to keep them in place!

In UK websites I don't find much information about this - or products for it: Can Rubber EPDM be colour painted? Our extension has a dark grey rubber roof and it gets so hot during summer, I was thinking of painting it white to take the edge off. In America apparently it is quite a common thing...

Yes you are right, I can but I dont want to, as that then it would mean changing car and that surely is more expensive that having tnis thing replaced. Thanks.

Why do we live in a world where everything is always doubted and where customer care is not existing unless money is involved ? That thing has been broken like that since the day we moved in 5 years ago. Regardless of the broken bits, to me it looks like this an unsafe installation, which would...

Can't have a narrower buggy alas

Thanks both. I believe my DNO IS Western Power Distribution, which we called two years ago to move the fuse board and we would have been charged for it. My question now is that, seeing as it is a safety hazard, is there anything we can do to have it at least fixed or changed ( not necessarily...

Hi all, a couple of years back we had someone around from Western Power Distribution (or perhaps one of their contractors) to quote for moving as close to the ceiling as possible our meter board which is currently in an awkward place at legs height in the hallway (is meter board a good term to...

That is a very interesting suggestion, I just googled and there is out there some corner bead with very wide mesh, you can literally find anything online nowadays! Do you mean we will regret it as in not fitting an architrave around the opening? or particularly about the solution of using that...

yeah totally understand @big-all, that is why I left this job hanging for ages! Thanks for your suggestions!

Understood @big-all , how do you suggest covering it, with plasterboard? Attached to the timber how, with some (wood?) glue? EDIT: sorry, tired brain. If plasterboard is a good choice for covering the timber, I can obviously use plasterboard screws to fix it!

Thanks @noseall , should have made it is explicit though, requirement is to have plaster up to the corner and round covering the jamb and no architrave to be installed.

Hi all, been humming and harring for months and months on how to finish this simple job at home, but I feel really uncertain on how to go about it, hence am here seeking some advice. In our kitchen doorway we used a timber board as the door jamb; we used timber as opposed to plasterboard as...

Thanks all for your replies; sorry I hadn't replied earlier but was busy down on the deck, all completed now! @JobAndKnock very good tips on how to store timbers for next time, appreciated! Indeed I was able to use the most twisted/warped joists as noggins; the more straight ones have been...

Hi all, been busy building a decking and I received all the materials for the frame four weeks ago. The joists have been stored outside on their sides on some brick footers. Made some progress at the beginning then had to stand still for a while; thus out of the ten 4.8metres 120*47 joists I...

Hello all, DIY-ers here and tomorrow we are embarking in our first deck build project. Two questions that have been going through my head on the deck end finish and also protecting the cut timber ends. I understand that a great (the best?) way to protect a finished decking is to use decking...

Scrap that. The conduit is useless in terms of protection,.as the SWA is protecting the actual cable from vermin. This if I were to lay a nylon cord through 40mm clips, surely that is good enough? We're starting with the deck Wednesday and I would need to get the 50mm twinwall ordered; and on...