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Hi, I've moved into a property and I have French doors at the back of the property with a window handle on one door and a standard door handle on the other.... Is this normal practice ? If not, is it possible to replace the window door handle with a standard door handle to correct the...

HI, I'm currently in the process of building sleeper walls in my garden with new treated sleepers. I started this a while back with 2400x200x100 sleepers and now just ordered 5 more of the same size to complete the project. The 5 that arrived all have different widths and depths. I.e one will...

Hi all, Ive build out a patio in my back garden and have now come to the stage of building the steps from my French doors down to the patio. However, I've been reading that I should have laid the steps first... Should I - A - lift the flags where the steps will be, fit the steps then refit the...

Hi all, My house is on a corner plot and i have a piece of grass on my side garden which is wasted and not used. I currently have a 6ft fence around the side of the house which i would like to extend over the grass in my side garden so that it can be used as part of my private garden. I've...

Hi all, I'm currently in the process of building a sleeper wall to try and flatten out my lawn. There is already a retaining wall for a sunken patio which is due to the house being on the side of a hill and theres not much i can do with that. I'm in a bit of a dilemma on what do to with the...

Hi all, I've currently got a problem with a very squelchy lawn. The lawn is on a gradual slope towards the house and is at it's worst at the bottom of the slope. The soil is generally heavy with clay as well. I was planning on installing a landdrain throughout the lawn but i'm now wondering if...

Hi all, I'm currently looking into installing a perforated land drain in my back garden as the grass is becoming a boggy mess. I currently have an aco drain along the side of the patio which leads into the house gutter drain which is close to the edge of the grass. This drain is the only option...

Hi All, I'm currently installing a 17 m2 patio in my back garden. I'm currently in a bit of a dilemma regarding the drainage. The grass that the patio leads onto is raised and also has a high clay content, so dispersing water through that doesn't look too good. I'm thinking there are two...

Hi all, This may be a stupid question.... but i'm building a patio which i was originally planning on sloping away from the house, but due to it leading into a raised bed of grass which is very high in clay content i've decided to slope it back towards the house and put drainage channel between...

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Hi, Over the past few weeks, i've noticed that there is some water getting into the wall behind our chimney stack on both the ground and first floor of our house, which has stained the plasterboard. I've been able to get some photos of the chimney and from first review it looks like the crown...

Hi, Less than a year ago I installed a pyronix enforcer into my house, with a few sensors and a wireless siren externally. Recently, the alarm has been randomly sounding internally with an alert to say that "Wrls Poll Fail - Siren 1". The siren hasn't sounded for any long periods of time...