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Hi all, I've got an 80mm french drain to put in my garden and need to connect it into my water drain but the trap drain that i need to connect it to is an older square terracota one. I can obviously dig it all out and replace it with a plastic one but i wondered if anyone had ever managed to...

Hi all, i've got a drain cover (as per the picture below...obviously taken off) that is sat smack bang in the middle of our walkway between the house and the garden. This is the main drain that runs through all the houses on the road and although the picture doesn't show it the cover is a layer...

Hi all, I've read quite a few posts and recommendations for painting OSB3 but the cost of what is recommended make a Latex/Acrylic based paint a massive cost hike for us but a lot of people/posts around states they have painted using masonry paint but others said not to use a water based paint...

Hi all, I put Onduline bitumen roofing sheets on my garage this year (about 8 months ago) and it's constantly leaking. I've overlapped the sheets fine but there are massive patches of wet on the underside of the sheets i.e there's not a few leaks where it's dripping out of a 1cm wide gap or...

Hi all, I fitted a shower into my bathroom when I renovated it just over a year ago and due to where the drain pipe from the shower tray is I've had to buy a raised shower tray but have found that it's cracked and looking at the reviews (ironically AFTER the warranty ran out) I see loads of...

Hi all, We've got 7 radiators on our house and I've gone to bleed them today and found 2 of them are not even getting warm. One of these is downstairs and one is upstairs. I've bled them both and i can feel the pipe going to the non-TRV valve (i.e the one with the white cap on it) is hot but...

Hi all, We've built a new extension and building control have said that as we've kept the exterior wall and door in place (as it's just a larger replacement of an old conservatory) that we won't need building control as such and they're happy to sign it off however I want 2 x 2 Gang electrical...

Hi all, How do i remove the spring on this door assembly ? i can see a socket on the left of the spring but it looks different to any on the videos i've seen, it seems to have an allen key grub screw on the top and bottom and the 4 holes on the sides so am i to put a screwdriver in two of these...

As the title says, going to be putting decking down and wondered if anyone has had any real-life experiences with this stuff ? i.e does it actually stop slipping when wet ? Also would we stain the decking as normal and then this goes on after in which case is there anything we can put on to...

Hi all, Might sound a stupid question but....got an exterior building covered in Cement Fibre board that we are unsure as to whether to render it or clad it in wood at the moment but normally if you've got a wooden OSB wall (which this has) then you'd put battens on to raise the wooden cladding...

Hi all, We've put Cement Fibre board on the outside of a room/building we've built and i was hoping to simply prime and paint it if i could get it nice and smooth but as i didn't realise how difficult this stuff is to cut and shape it's not turned out perfectly well so i've put Leyland Acrylic...

Hi all, Going to put decking down around my extension and although I've seen them before I've been looking at the decking risers (i.e the plastic circular feet) and looking at a couple of suppliers they are saying that there's no need for concrete footings for these and you can put them...

Hi all, I'm a home owner (not professional builder) and i need to create an elevation drawing for building planning so any advice on what to use to make this ? i.e can i simply draw it by hand or use something like Microsoft Visio or something ? Never had to do one before so not sure on how...

Hi all, Two questions for this...i'm putting Cement Fibre board as an external protection\clad onto a small building and as we can simply prime it and paint it (as opposed to putting a render or further cladding on it) i've never installed this stuff but looking at various instructions and...

Hi all, I've started to build a new conservatory and although i'm doing the work myself i totally forgot about getting it checked for safety and building control etc so can i hire a builder to go through this with me i.e to check the building structurally and then apply for building control in...

Hi all, I just wanting some advise on cutting Fascia boards which sound like simple thing to answer but my concern is that i only need to cut about 10mm off a 5m length (long-ways) so i'm just thinking about the best way to do this without scratching the fascia and also obviously getting a...

Hi all, Put a SIP roof on an outbuilding which has gone fine but i've also put some Waferhead screws in to fix the SIP panels down which i'm going to put a rubber roof on and the screws are slightly raised and i'm reluctant to further screw them in as they might rip the top OSB board and also...

Hi all, We've built a wooden structure with a lot of windows (full height) and so there are essentially 2 corners/pillars and it's covered in OSB and then damp membrane so we were either planning on simple wooden siding (i.e shiplap sort or thing) or steel roofing sheets, both which we like but...

Hi all, I've put a wooden roof on a room/building that joins a house wall. The room is 2.4.m high and onto a semi-detached house (i.e the roof butts up to the wall at 90 degrees) and due to a variation in the house wall i've found a 1cm gap between the room roof and the house wall. I'm not...

Hi all, Simple one but just wanted to check..putting on a flat EPDM roof over 5m, is 9cm at the high end ok for the pitch ? Thanks