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Hi I'm trying to do wainscott paneling on my stairs and hallway and I cannot get thr end of the dado rail to meet and come straight. I've worked the angle out to about 53 degrees or there abouts, I've tired cuts on the mitre saw with a sacrificial fence and can't get it. Can anyone offer...

Hi folks. Posted a while back about the flashing on my garage roof which is split and leaking. It's an oil fired boiler flue. I've tried to seal it up with gutter sealant which worked temporarily but after a few heat cycles it goes again. Some forum users gave great suggestions on replacing...

Hi all. Trying to add drainage for my garage guttering, unfortunately when I moved in the garage didn't have any just a gutter discharging into the pathway that the previous owner laid on concrete flag and my worry was it going into the foundations long term although it's been like this for...

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Hi all. Wasn't sure where to put this so thought this would be best. I have an old concrete driveway with large cracks in it and would like to go about filling them in as best I can just for aesthetics and general upkeep, although I know nothing will truly fix it. This driveway is like 50 years...

Thanks for the help earlier in the week on fixing my fence. Its 90% back together now I've got every thing ready to go but I haven't filled the holes back in yet ontop of the post crete. I'd really like to paint the fence a nice green or grey colour as it's a 10 year old wooden panel fence...

Hi all. Back again with another problem Fence blew down last year in the wind, the last 2 panels on the end. Told by neighbour previous sections had fallen and been repaired before we bought the house. These are 6 ft wide panels and the posts had snapped due to rot. I cannot move the holes due...

Trying to clean my roof today, it's got a portion in a shaded area where another house is above me and the moss seems to grow there otherwise its fairly clean. I had a small wire brush I taped and cable tied to a long 5m extension pole that just about reaches to the top and I was able to...

Hi folks. Apologies for making a new thread I know I have a similar one slightly below. I am desperate to fix this tumble dryer money is super tight at the moment and it would help massively If I could fix this myself. It's a Hoover link HL C9DF-80 likely a faulty sensor but I can't get the...

Hi folks Have a Hoover link tumble dryer approx 2-3 years old. Every so often maybe 2 times in the last year the empty water indicator would come up even though the bottle has been emptied. Previous times to this I'd ensure the bottle was emptied, clean out the lint trap and clean out the...

Hi folks. Old Render around the bottom of my pebble dash wall and garage and quite bad around garage door. I can't afford to get it done professionally and hoped I'd be able to buy some sort of repair or patch kit I can smooth on and paint afterwards. Is this possible or does it need...

Hi. Got a little project going on here. Been wanting a firepit for quite some time to add to my garden which is an ongoing project due to recommence in the summer, , my aunt moved house and I was able to snag this off her which she was leaving behind. Pretty delighted with it although it does...

Hi all. Having problems with my garage boiler flue leaking. Had problems with my garage roof leaking when I moved in, managed to sort them with cement sides and fitted a dry ridge myself. The boiler flue goes straight up from my boiler out the top of the roof. It's badly fitted due to the lead...

Hi folks how's things. Im after a bit of advice regarding these little roof space / crawl space doors around my house, I'm not too sure what their actually called. My house is a chalet bungalow so we have 1 of these in the upstairs cupboard and 1 in each bedroom. Inside they are leading to a...

Hi folks. Trying to come up with some ways to bring the look of my house up and modernise it as much as possible myself, totally new to DIY mostly. Any idea if it's a big job to change the spindles on a 30 year old stair case? We would really like to get more square shape and then paint a...

Hi I'd like to remove this fireplace and replace in the next year or so and replace with a wood burning stove connected to the heating system. It has an electric fire in at the moment the previous owner installed but I can pull it out to a traditional fireplace behind but we've never lit it...

Hi folks. So I'm pretty new to DIY and have never really done any plumbing before. Some of my radiators are luke warm in the middle so I decided to attempt removing one and flushing it through with a hose to remove any sludge. I've watched a few youtube videos and it seemed really straight...

Hi all. Im trying to figure out what could be the cause and how to treat this small patch of what I believe is rising damp just beside my front door in my hallway. Not the best picture but the door is just to right of the patch. We are living in the house 1 year to the month and we've never...

Hi folks. Had a bathroom suite fitted about a year ago. The plumber who did it was hired through a local contractor and wasn't great to be honest I've had a few issues mostly resolved now but this has just happened about 30 mins ago. Gave my son a bath tonight and pulled the plug out to let...

Hi guys. Urgent request for help here. Im finally ready to finish my roof. Just need to redo the verge with cement and done. I mixed 1 sharp sand, 2 building sand and 1 cement with water but simply couldn't get the consistency I wanted. I tried 3 or 4 batches and couldn't get it right. In the...