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Looking for some advice on planning a small deck, probably less than 3x3m. The garden is currently excavated about 250mm below where I want the surface to be. I'd like for beds to be within 50mm of this level and (stone slab) paths to and from flush with it. All the info I've seen on ground...

Can anyone advise on the best sheet material for forming a 2.8m circle to form a concrete base for a patio. In truth it will actually be ring, essentially a small retaining wall which I can fill with sub-base, so a 2.4m diameter form inside the 2.8m, 100mm above the current grade and about 150mm...

I have a concrete slab outside my house that previously had concrete slabs laid on a dry sand and cement mixer. Both of those have now been removed and I'd like to re-screed before laying foam underlay and artificial grass. My reason for this is the slab is very rough and it also pools water...

For reasons that are too longwinded to explain here, I'm going to have to get my supply pipe replaced. Currently 25mm Alkathene enters by the front door and runs approx. 10m in 15mm to the back of the house where it splits off to the taps, appliances and combi boiler. My question is: do you...

I have a Victorian end terrace that has been a bit neglected over the years, that's not to say not modernised, but done so unsympathetically. The main living space at ground floor has a concrete floor which extends from side to side of the original house through the hallway. The rear of the...

I own a 1900s Victorian end terrace. My side wall is on the boundary and adjoins 4 neighbouring plots of an adjacent road. On clearing out the end neighbors garden yesterday, in preparation for some minor render repairs, I noticed that it's in much worse state than I first thought in places, so...