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Hi all am after a bit of your knowledge/suggestions. we are on private water and are having a few problems but i'm not sure if we've got a leak or not. the pipe from the pump house runs down hill for about 8-12 meters then enters the house (somewhere*) and upto the loft watertank (which...

Need some advice... We need to vinyl over some kitchen tiles but at the moment it’s not feasible to take up the existing tiles (time constraints && young crawling children). The tiles are smooth 80’s style about 8mm apart (chipped) with about 1-2mm deep grout troughs between them...

Hi, just after some opinions on this... we have a 20sq m2 flat garage roof that is leaking in a number of places. The roof boards are untreated chipboard :shock: and about 30 - 40% of them are shot - the roofing felt is in pretty bad shape (cracks, bubbles Etc... one section even has a...

hey all, well after about a year or so away from doynot i'm back 8) . we're about to put an offer in on our 3rd property in need of work (no, we've sold the others - onward and upwards Etc) anyway this one is in rural scotland and is a bit strange as in it's a semi detached period...

hey peeps been a few months since i've been on here but i just want to say thanks to everyone on here who has helped me out with advice over the last few years... what can this mean?!?!? well, yes i've finally finished the house... put it up for sale and sold it (took 4 days to get asking...

hey there need a lil' advice and recommendations for a couple of things (not being a gardener or a cat person) 1. can anyone recommend a good weed killer for clearing a patch of ground with some very stubborn weeds.... some have very deep roots and the others are the type that if you...

afternoon all quick question as i couldn't find anything in the archives.... anyone know of any product(s) out there that'll stop efflorescence?? we have a couple of damp patches that are continually generating efflorescence and i just can't seem to hide it (the wall affected is about 1 ->...

not really a disaster but.... in january of this year (05) we finally managed to get a company to put a new pot on the chimney for our log burner - they were suppose to do it in october but they kept on putting us off (weather Etc...) i should have sacked em off then it but because it was...

A man goes to the zoo. When he gets there, there was only a dog. It was a sh!tzu. i thank you :roll:

hey all anyone know how to clean enamel - we've got an antique enamelled log burner (and very nice it is too) but it's got what looks like stains on it it's like something has entered the enamel and bleached away some of the colour - if you wipe over it with water it goes back to the original...

hey all have had a quick trawl around the archives but couldn't find anything so........ what's the method to stop stairs squeaking when being used?? we can't get underneath as that'll entail far too much work..... i was going to screw down what's screwable and bang in wood wedges...

morning have had a search around the archives but canna find what i want (too many results - lol) going to skim two sections of plasterboard tomorrow and i was wondering what to do about the join between them? i only have two 'boards' with a total join of about 8 - 10 feet so i don't...

Morning. I've found this polystyrene insulation stuff that is about 2mm thick and you apply it to the wall like wall paper (and then wall paper over the top) - I would like to do this too two walls in our attic room but obviously I don't want to contravene building regs in regards to loft...

so what's the difference between artex/plaster and why are so many people against artex? i'm in the process of plastering a room - one wall has been artexed in the past so i'm either going to plaster over it or artexing over it - anyone see any problems with that? just intrested in...

just thought i'd share this with you all to show that getting a number of quotes is not stupid (but then again you know that!) job - replace guttering and 1 down pipe on end terrace house in the north.... quote 1 - £1843 :shock: quote 2 - £580 :? quote 3 - £390 :P obviously we...

morning all just a quick one (ohh errrr misses!!!) going to start tiling a bathroom in the next week or so and was wondering if there's an easy way to tile behind a raditator? can a rad be loosened at the pipes so you can 'swing it down' a bit or have you got to drain the system and...

morning all i've just installed a french 1920s log burner in the fireplace of our house - it's lovely but unfortunately we had trouble getting a flu the correct size (3 1/2 inch) so i had one made up at a local stainless steel exhaust garage (top job too). anyway we sparked it up the other...

we're thinking of re-locating to cambridgeshire in about 8 months time - so in anticipation of this i've been trawling property sites to see what's available in our price range (f#'%$£"£$% expensive springs to mind!!!) anyway came across what looks like quite a nice cottage outside of...

morning all very quick question.... when fitting a sink into a kitchen worktop should there be a 'special' rubber seal between the sink and the top or is a flexible grout good enough?? cheers and merry christmas :O)

not sure which forum to put this so general it is :twisted: single colour kitchen work tops- do they exist?? i don't want any of this 'trying to be marble or granite or shale or Pandapoo Etc' all i want is a plain single coloured work surface and i canna find one :( i would have thought...