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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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi all we are starting to build some decking in our property; at the bottom of the property we could potentially build one day a garden room - but perhaps not. Would you lay some corrugated conduit when building the deck, so cables can be easily slid under the deck when/if the day comes that...

TLDR: Bamboo worktop, which oil is the most indicated? I hear Danish Oil is good enough, is Osmo Top Oil a level head? We are looking to achieve a well sealed, truly impenetrable worktop. After having some make-shift OSB worktops for more than a year, we finally decided on some bamboo worktops...

Embarking on a deck project soon, so need to lay some cables and pipes for a potential garden room to be built later on at the bottom of our garden, which is 40m long If we were to have running water in the garden room, can we run a speedfit / hep2o pipe along the party wall? Our side of the...

Hi all, looking at redoing our front path by using some thick 9 inch quarry tiles, in lieu of the current thinner, smaller quarry tiles. A trench was dug last year for a new pipe, hence why we need to replace them. As you can see from the picture, our door frame sits on a bit of stone which...

Perhaps an odd question, mostly I seem to stumble across two different approaches when looking at tutorials on how to build a timber decking: A. Several posts, joists bolted to posts and decking boards laid on top of joists B. Fewer posts, few beams bolted to posts, several joists laid at 90...

On the topic of garden rooms and Permitted Development. We live in a very standard terraced house but our garden is somewhat peculiar: the end of the garden has a highway on one side, a neighbour which erected (no idea when) a 3m high wall made out of concrete blocks and another neighbour whose...

Hi all, We've got a bathroom upstairs which we have fitted a couple years back. The floor is made out of original floorboards and it usually is fine; however when we have (inconsiderate?) guests over, there's always water pooling on the floor around the bathtub. Sometimes that causes problems...

Hi all, removing some skirtings we found injection holes, in a room which has damp problem. Was wondering if there is a known data when the (absurd) practice of injecting a DPC all started here in England, particularly South West?

Hey all, I am aware that Stelrad is a more renowned radiator brand than the own brand SF ones, Kudox. However, when I look at the spec for the same typology and size of radiator, I see that: Kudox has more BTU Kudox has a 15y guarantee, Stelrad 10y only Kudox has a greater max working...

what is the general consensus on applying a waterproof render on the foundation of a (victorian terraced) house? Background: frontroom is damp (water pooling on the bare ground below floor level, plaster in walls close the the water pool is blown). We are in the process of digging away clay-ish...

Hi all, we have a second hand Britannia cooker hood which comes with an outlet which is 150mm diameter. The external diameter of the duct is 160/162mm and we are struggling to find someone to core it for us, as hire places usually go only up to 6" in size (150mm). Industrial corers can do it...

Our water mains are in 22mm and if I wanted I could easily take a 22mm pipe through the wall to connect it to our garden tap (yet to be installed). I have done some due diligence and cannot find any garden tap which accepts a 22mm pipe, with a 22mm backplate and a 22mm non-return valve. Am I...

Hey all Our house will need to be rendered at the back anytime soon-ish as we have scratch coats here and there ( and besides being unsightly, we think they could lead to rain water ingress!??) We been living in a building site for the last six months and we don't see the external render...

Hi all, as perhaps this is my 100th post about something related to out kitchen renovation, I won't start this post by saying "we are doing a kitchen renovation..." Our Vokera EasiHeat Plus25C, a three or four years old combi boiler, has been temporarily decommissioned (three months)...