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So - my clay soil is now relatively level with a few high spots and a few soft spots. Plan is to compact MOT with a whacker this weekend to get a flat (slightlg sloping) base on which I will put down some weed membrane and then drop some nice gavel on and maybe build a raised area with...

Morning all My garden is sloping and quite long. I have leveled the bottom area (roughly 20ft x 20ft) which is all heavy clay soil. I am going to be building some steps down from the sloping section, a patio area (slightly raised) and the rest will be gravel. The main thing I am...

Hey I am going to be putting in a sleeper retaining wall and raised beds next week. Should i go for hardwood or softwood sleepers and what's the difference?

I am levelling a section of my garden (around 10m x 10m) in order to lay a patio on which will be a summer house housing a hot tub etc. The soil is serious clay - you could put this stuff on a wheel a make a mug...... Can't get a digger in so it is coming out by hand and barrow and...

My 1950's semi has an outhouse, the floor of which looks like it sits below the dpc of the house. The room is single skin and cold so currently fitting insulating plasterboard to help. The previous owner had laid this rigid Lino sheets down and when I lifted these the concrete was stained...

My house has cavity walls which all have cavity wall insulation. On the side of my house is a single skin brick utility room with a pitched roof. I want to insulate the external 3 walls and then plasterboard over the insulation so my plan is to build some timber batons onto the brickwork...

Hi guys Bathroom is almost ready to tile. Ive done my homework and have a few questions which I hope you can help me with. 1. One of the walls has been rendered by my plasterer with a sand and cement mix. Can I tile straight onto this and do I need to use any special sort of adhesive...

Hi The gap for my bath is about 1710 and my bath is 1700 so if I were to tile down to the bath I will have a gap at one end. I could tile the walls first though down below the level of the bath and it should just slot straight in. I know that tiling to the bath is better but what...

Hi I am tiling the bathroom floor which is currently boarded. I have repaired the boards and punched the nails down. I am ready to fit my 6mm backer boards with adhesive and 30mm galvanised screws. Can I use ready mixed or should i use powdered? Any recommendations on what I...

a house i am renovating has a cast iron bath at present and i want to install a shower instead. the shower will need to be against the opposite wall to where the bath waste is situated. am i going to have to route the waste pipe under the floorboards or would it be better to raise the tray...

Hi Guys Over the last two weeks I have been extending the tiling in my bathroom which was previously only part tiled and I had loads of tiles left over from when we had it done. The tiles are normal ceramic ones and I have used unibond tile and grout The room itself is an old outhouse...

We are buying a new house soon and renting out our current property. We have no end of power cuts in our current house which causes our alarm to go off about twice a month (and as there is obviously a backup battery somewhere it is a cause of some nusiance) We dont use the alarm and to...

right - i dont know how to link to my album where all my photos are but there are pics of the wall in there the guy who plastered it last plastered over paint which had been applied to the bricks. there is a layer of yellow and then green over the top. the green paint became loose in places...

hi guys i am fitting a flatscreen in the lounge and am mounting it on the chimney breast. The chimney is capped and the fireplace is now empty so my plan is to run the wires up the chimney and through a large hole behind the screen so that they are invisible i assume i need one of those...

ok guys, i have built a shed from scratch and i have given it a normal pitched roof should i use chipboard, mdf or what for the actual roof (i will be felting it) whats the cheapest option?

complete newbie question so i apologise in advance I am building a lean to shed for my motorbike and want to secure the frame to my very solid patio i have a cordless hammer drill and a 240v non hammer drill, the cordless doesnt seem to have the juice and the non hammer drill has just left...

i am building a shed for my motorbike to go in which will be around 220 x 140 cm with the door on the narrow end it is a lean too shed and the rear and one side are already in place i was just going to use some fence panels for the remaining side but was looking at tongue and groove...

I am building a small rectangular shed (7ft deep x 4ft wide) for my motorbike, not for theft protection merely for weather and out of sight protection at present there is a fence (6ft x 6ft panels) running to the wall of my house (45 degree to wall) with professionally sunken posts in gap on...

i have a 3015a (i think) the caress 1500 a model anyway it will only fast spin when the drum is crammed full of clothes and wont when the drum is only at normal load or less what is broken/needs renewing?

i put sealant on the edges of the bath as whoever fitted it put some kinda strips of plastic to join bath to tiles which isnt sealed to the bath but is grouted onto the tiles put the sealant on (which wasnt silicone sealant, just bathroom sealant which presumably is not as good but had it...