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Great feedback all - really useful. Thanks a lot. An old doorbell seems a really likely suggestion considering the old wired one has been removed and replaced with a wireless one. I'll do as you suggest and put them in a terminal block for now until my electrician can get out.

Was cleaning the understairs cupboard in our new house and this popped out at me. It's setting off my wee detector, but only on low, not the big alarm you get when you touch plug sockets. It's a 100 year old house so could be from any era! Can't trace it back any further as it goes right under...

Just noticed a little problem. Each row is almost exactly 2.5 boards. I think this means I can't just keep using the last cut of one row to start the next row, or I'll end up with an H-pattern / H-joints. Came up with a solution where for the third row I take a cut off the first board and last...

Can you explain what this means please, Daz? Thanks for all this, Blue. Feeling confident. It's a new build room and it's never had skirting, so I have the luxury of worrying about that later. Great tip about starting at the door. There's just enough of a gap between the inside of the french...

Good point, I'll experiment with both layouts.

Now this is interesting info! That changes things. Thanks for the perspective.

A couple of ladies from the neighbourhood watch. I'm not even joking, here.

Sadly I can't, because for the outbuilding to meet regulation max height (2.5m) the adjacent ground needs to be at the level of the grass. This is my penance for setting it deeper and trying to get an extra half foot height inside the room (I'm a tall guy).

Thanks. I think you're right, no reason to avoid an air gap. Just looking for shortcuts! I should have clarified that ideally I'd do stepping stones in the gravel, and I'm not sure the driveway grid would work with that (unless you can put slabs on those?). Definitely going for weed memrane.

I've made a bit of a rod for my own back and need help finding a solution. I had an outbuilding constructed. I asked them to dig a bit deeper for extra head height on the inside, so the building is below ground level and the cladding is level with the grass adjacent. I'm now planning to put a...

Thanks for the tip. The room is a square - 10.5ft on both sides. It's a standalone outbuilding with one set of french doors. I was going to lay them left to right as you enter the room as opposed to bottom to top (if that makes sense). Would you say that's the best approach? (P.S. the laminate...

Magic, thanks for this. Delighted I don't need to do the curving up the edges.

Some info: I've got 10mm laminate, going onto 5mm foam gold foil backed underlay with a chipboard subfloor. Questions: 1. Do you need to run the underlay up the wall a few inches instead of just flush to the wall edges, then cut it away at the end? Why is this? Seems a faff with the spacers...

Mystery solved. Feel like a bit of a plum now! Was looking at photos of the concrete pour I had done for a shed base, and the bits I hit while digging are just overspill from the frame when it was being poured.

Brilliant, thanks for this.

This is a good option. I've wound up with probably half a tonne of gravel in the process of just tidying up the edges, so that's a good start. The reason i wanted to avoid this was because I need to drag bins over part of it, but I might be able to mix slabs and gravel.

I'm liking the sound of this. After a bit of excavating, the ground is rock solid and extremely clay heavy (I could set up a pottery business). It's also filled with large stones and random slabs (no idea why - it's very odd). A layer of sand would probably give a decent base for some slabs...

A bit of Googling has turned up Fiber Reinforced Concrete - could be that?

I was digging in the garden and hit this. Stopped as soon as I saw it was blue and hairy. I know absolutely nothing about asbestos, so not sure if it should be ringing alarm bells, or I'm being overly cautious. I've already called the pros about coming to look at it, but as they can't come...

It'll be 4.8m at least along the front of a shed, but if it goes well I might run more of it round two other sides of the shed, so up to 12m.