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Hi All I'm planned to build a garden wall in Bath Stone blocks about 1m high. ( 3 courses ). I have alot of large blocks which were left over following a partial demolition of part of the house. We're happy for the wall to look rough and ready so I'm happy that the blocks are not exactly...

Hi All I have a few feet of 100 mm flexible corrugated drain pipe which I need to join to a new section of standard underground drain. The new section does not exist yet. Job for the weekend ! I think the corrugated drain pipe is made by polypipe and carries rainwater run off from the...

Hi all I've has a good search and spent time on paving expert so please forgive me asking about this well trodden subject. I am planning to lay a 90 sqm Indian sandstone patio (riven) over the jubilee weekend. Lots of advice out there but it all seems to differ slightly. So far all...

Hi All I'm planning on laying about 70m2 of patio. Currently looking at a cheaper Indian sandstone in grey. Planning to buy 5 patio packs. I've noticed that the supplier i'm looking at (http://indianstonedirect.co.uk/index.php?productID=406) is quoting a thickness of 15-25mm. Most...

Hi All I have a Santon Premier Plus solar hot water cylinder. It has 2 plastic housing covers on it's side. The lower is for the solar heating temperature probe so I know what is happening with that one. I have attached an image of the top cover. According to the manual it...

Hi All Had a google and can't find an answer. I've got a house with 2 boilers. Stupid but true. Any ideas how I can monitor the amount of gas used by each boiler ? Obviously I've got my main meter from which I take regular reading but that's it. I'm thinking some kind of...

Hi All I hope this an easy one for you. I'm intending to build up an architrave around a few windows at home. It will be made up of 2 layers to closely match what is already in place in the rest of the house. I'm buying an off the shelf architrave (MDF) which is about 95mm wide. This...

Hi All Hopefully a simple one for you. I have 1-1.5 inches of brown soilpipe sticking up from the existing concrete floor in our kitchen-of-the-future. This pipe joins into the main soil pipe underground which exiting into the main manhole outside the house. From the smell coming out of...

Hi All Hopefully an easy one for you. I need to lift a bedroom floor slightly so that it is approx level with the bathroom tiles when carpeted. I've got a few sheets of 5mm ply which i'm going to lay over the existing 22mm chipboard T+G floor. Should bring it up enough. Not sure if the...

Hi All I am about to start on the last phase of laying my wooden floor. I have battens at 40cm centers on a flat concrete base. I have fitted insulation and UFH in the void between the battens. The last step is to fit the boards on top. The boards are old pitch pine and are 18cm wide...

Hi All I need for form a conduit now through which will run a new gas supply. The new supply will probably be something like 32 mm Outside Diameter, 27.6 mm Inside Diameter in YELLOW MDPE (PE80) GAS PIPE. I am building a new wall and stair case at the moment ( in concrete) and need to...

Hi All I've uploaded 2 pics here //www.diynot.com/network/wertert/albums/6860 from my partially installed system. The white pipes are 16mm MLCP underfloor heating pipes. I am trying to workout what the others are.... 2 two grey pipes ( with the white clips ) next to the MLCP...

Hi All We have started work on a battened wooden floor and UFH on a concrete slab and have discovered a small issue. There appears to be a large rock located at this end of the room which is possibly part of the foundations. The concrete slab has been formed around this rock. There also...

Hi All I am planning to complete a 4 zone UFH system which was partially installed by a builder before he went belly up. The question I have concerns the insulation that I will install under the heat spreader plates. We have a concrete slab on which we have installed 45x45mm battens at...

All I have been trying to get my head around the idea of linking a wood burner into a central heating and hot water system. We are building an extension onto our house and it will have an entirely new heating system. The extension is 3 storey with kitchen/utility on the ground floor...

Hi All New member here. Part way through a project and I would like to ask some advice. We have a small patio at the back of our house which is below the level of the garden ( approx 550mm ). There is a double skin brieze block wall (red) faced in some nice old stone (blue) which acts as...