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I have a lintel as per the picture. It has expanded with rust and forced up the Gable above it. I am replacing it with a new galvanised angle type under the outer leaf only. I should remove 7/8 courses and rebuild to realign joints but I don't have time and was wondering if it was a crazy idea...

We have switched the layout of our bungalow so that what was a dining room is now a bathroom. The bathroom is at the front of the house and visible to the road (there is some shrubs partially obscuring it) Obviously it's a huge window with a low cill as you would find in a dining room but this...

I have a recently aquired medical grade piston vacuum pump that i intend to use for vacuum bagging. It has however arrived with no flex It simply has 3 Wires. 1. Bare ended green and yellow which is obviously earth. 2. Crimp ended brown wire which i presume to be the live 3. Crimp ended...

I have a small wood workshop at home and need to get on top of dust extraction. I am considering making a fixed ducting system to the major items and some flexible hose take offs for handheld tools. I have one of these http://www.poolewood.co.uk/product/fox-2hp-dust-extractor-f50-842/ and...

I am helping a friend planning a barn conversion. It is 1850s and has solid stone walls with brick quions, the walls are approx 450mm thick. Its a long thin rectangle 6m by approx 25m It has a Mono-pitch about 20 deg and as the span is about 6m and as it will be self built I had thought JJI...

My elderly neighbour has a leaking valley on a tiled roof. Lots of the cut tiles have come loose and slipped down partially obscuring the valley and much of the bedding mortar has crumbled or come loose. The lead itself is in pretty good condition, its just the build up of crud that has formed...

Hi, first, sorry for the long post but i just want to give all the details for an overall sense of whats going on. I live in a smallish bungalow which has recently been rennovated and a whole new heating sytem installed from scratch. Suspended floors are insulated as is roofspace and cavity...

I Built a wall last autumn, its a standard free standing wall 4ft high with 6ft piers. The wall is 9 inch, piers 18, constructed of 3.5N blocks and rendered with a scratch coat and float coat/sponge finish. The wall has shown real signs of rising damp which has left some salt tide marks...

had to leave a hired mini digger (1.5t) on site and the homeowner is away so want to know how best to chain it up? Any advice welcome Nothing of substance to chain it to and i realise chains won't stop a motivated thief

I have a small unfinished room which will soon be a guest toilet. The room also houses the gas combi and the consumer unit. The rennovations are being done under a building notice. I want to clad a stud wall inside this room with timber rather than plaster it. From a fire point of view...

I have bought a stihl combi as spares or repair because i wanted the attachment that came with it and will use the head unit as a parts donor for identical one i'm running currently. It's a KM130 and about 4/5 years old. I would ideally like to get it running as a spare unit if it wasn't...

Following on from this post //www.diynot.com/forums/building/render-problems.375024/ I have decided to install a chemical dpc in a 9 inch 7N block wall. Having never done it before let alone know anything about them any tips info or specific product recommendations welcome...

I recently built a small wall and 2 piers on a job. The walls were built of 7N concrete blocks and rendered with a scratch coat and float coat of render mixed 5:1. The wall is 9 inch blockwork and the piers solid 18inch blockwork. The footings were into decent ground but there was a layer...

Can i remove an interceptor/ buchan trap? A friend of mine has a property he rents out and the trap is frequently blocking. I am putting in a couple of new gullies as part of some paving works but he has asked me if its possible to just remove the trap altogether and replace with a new...

Just in my local b and q earlier and saw these for sale. Same price as the 2.4's used to be. In other news what should i do with old broken ryobi batteries? I have a 2.4ah and a 1.2 lithium that won't charge, what should i look at or do with them? Cheers

I want to have a push to open door with no handle. The door will be a cut out of a large sheet of laminated mdf and i have carefully cut the door out of the sheet in order to keep the grain looking right. I don't want to attach a frame of any kind so am looking for ideas on how best to...

Anyone had any experience with clay plasters? It's purely as a decorative choice as i really like the effect of it and am considering using them in some rooms. Seems to be more popular in the states but if anyone had any info on suppliers or had first hand experience using it i'd be keen to...

after hiring when needed i think its time to buy one but probably just a second hand one. What i'm mainly looking for is any experiences of things that commonly go wrong and things to check when buying second hand. Heard tales of fans giving up repeatedly etc so just after some reassurance...

I am renting a house and due to move out at the end of februrary. We needed oil earlier this month but becuase we are leaving we had the minimum of 100 litres delivered, this was on the 10th of jan We just ran out today. Is it possible that we have used 100 litres in 3 weeks? Or has some been...

I am having a WB greenstar CDI combi fitted on a new system. Because the boiler is fully modulating is a normal wirless programmable stat such as a Honeywell CMT921 going to make the most of this or should i go for the WB FR110? In essence i want to know if the stat has a part to play in...