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Hi all Im in the process of getting a new drive layed. Its a long story but desperately waiting for the guy to come back any time now. Anyway recently been looking at plugin hybrids as the missus needs a new car and that led on to upgrading the supply comming into the house and some fast...

Hi all I have had a nightmare of a time with a new drive. First of all there was the decision of what drive to go for and after looking at neighbours issues with paviours etc we decided to go for imprinted concrete - I know some people dont like IC and we understand the pros and cons too...

Hi all We had a drive wall done probably about two years ago block on flat and with a sand cement render. I put some watered down oil based external paint on (watered down with white spirits) and then some full coat toos - looked great initially of course Over time though its going green - you...

Hi all I bought a Nest thermostat for the single zone underfloor heating we have We have an existing thermostat for the undefloor and the plan was to just replace that with the nest just to control the underfloor heating I have another nest wired up to the boiler and that works really well -...

Hi all Last year we had a wall built along the side of the house - it has cement render I put a washy coat of pilolite paint on followed by a a full coat We are having the drive done now so it looks a mess anyway but the paint is also comming off Wouldnt say its peeling off but just coming...

Hi all - Ive had a bit of a mare with the guy who was due to do our new drive and I had to get rid of him after two days Anyway he was going to do PIC for our new drive but now I have nobody to do the drive and now the weather is against us too - so Im thinking maybe get block now - ie...

Hi all I have to make the opening for a potential new fire smaller. The reason Im going for the fire is that its the only one that fits in the existing hole that we have had empty for years. I dont want the mess of taking out the lintel for a new larger fire. The less disruption the better...

Hi all We have just repointed chimney we and now doing the crown - it wasnt in too bad but there were some loose bits that needed removing and some roots too We cant remove the crown altogether as its a bigger job than we realised when we started so we are going to recover with a layer of...

Hi all We are finding out that pointing the chimney is a bigger job than we first thought! We have repointed the main bulk of it now but we are now looking at the worst part of the chimney - the top 4 courses of bricks and parts of the flaunching. The two back corners of the chimney look bad...

Just been grinding away the joints on my chimney stack before repointing There are some horrible fern type roots groing and attacking the motar joints - so it definately needs repointing for sure - just come down now and got me thinking what sort of cement is in the bricks Its looks like...

Hi all Im just started doing the repointing on a 1930s chimney - its needs doing as there a fern type plant attaching to the joints. In some places its gone in quite deep and it comes out fairly easy but its quite a rooty fibrous type fern that seems to take hold on all the chimneys round here...

Hi all We have a leak in the attic around the chimney stack thats been there probably for a while now in reality Anyway we have scaffolding in place around the chimney and while we are up there we may aswell do the repointing of the chimney stack as it has plants all over it and the crown has...

Hi all Putting up a fence by fixing post to a wall on boundary garden wall Its a new block on flat wall with cement render and some block pillars where we plan on putting the fence posts themselves The posts will be 3x2 timber essentially fixed to the block pillars using thunderbolts possibly...

Hi all - we came very close to flooding recently in some very extreme weather - about 5cm from threshold at back of house - not from river but from rainfall alone - it was mad We are on clay soils and when it rains the water just sits for ages and we havent got anywhere for the water to go Ive...

Hi all We have a leak in the main roof of a 1930s semi - we think its around the chimney area as when the weather is blowing one way - its not too bad but when blowing the other way the chimney breast in the attic is wet - you can see its obviously wet The water is then going down the beams...

Hi all Ive just had a small retaining wall built between us and neighbours (garden wall). Its block and flat and rendered in smooth cement. Planning on painting sometime soon (have a shower quadrant to fit before the wall) anyway was gonna use very diluted wish wash coat of pliolite paint which...

Hi all Currently have some builders in finishing off a block on flat retaining wall about 1m in height maximum. We are planning on putting some block on flat pillars in so we can have some fencing between us and new neighbours The issue is the neighbours land is stepped up quite a bit from...

Hi all My missus is putting pressure on to get our house sorted out :( Next thing probably to do is a strip of decking at the back of the house - will help stopping me carrying muck on boots through the kitchen Anyway the strip is only about 1250mm wide by 6m in length - then we have steps up...

Hi all Last week we had an extreme rain downpour and the new extension we put in two year ago came very close to having water comming into the air vents (which allow air for the wooden floor in original part of the house) It wasnt comming into the house but we were about 2cm away from it...

Hi all - about to buy some recessed concrete posts for a closeboard fence Our new next door neighbours land is about 2-3ft higher on their side and their wall is in a bit of a state - so as we have been looking at this sorry wall for years we think a fence would be a good idea and it would...