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Great site, thanks very much J

And, what do I need, how deep do I dig the hole, does anything need to go in the hole before the contrete/paving slabs

Any tips on what I need to do to my front garden to make a car port. Concrete or paving slabs? Any advice will be much appreciated. Cheers

Thanks. I've got a couple of corgis coming out this week.

Why tut tut, I want to know what my options are so that when a plumber/engineer calls, I know that I'm not being ripped off if there is an easy solution to my problem. I just want to make sure that someone doesn't make a bigger job out of what could be a simple job.

I am wanting to move the gas cooker to a differnet part of the kitchen. I'm wanting to re-route the point as easily as possible without ripping up floors and chiselling out walls. Is there anyway that I can convert the exisiting point to 15mm/22mm copper, by means of a convertor and run the...

Thanks for that. Our house is ex-council, "Built like bomb shelters those outhouse roofs", one of our neighbours as said to us. That is why some many people have knocked the walls out and extended into the outhouse. As we bought the house just over a year ago for the son of the deceased...

The gap is 6ft wide. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/johnmoore/photos/8.jpg

The concrete roof is exactly 7 inches thick. We have seen other houses in the road who have done the same thing. There is no lintel. We have been advised by a number of builders that the outhouse roof is as strong, if not stronger than a lintel. So what about the plaster cracks. These cracks...

Hi, We moved into our new house last year and had the kitchen replastered. We also turned the old outhouse into part of the kitchen. The outhouse is connected to the house; the wall between the kitchen and the outhouse was already knocked down so it was an ideal way to make a bigger...

Cheers guys, that's very helpful. I did think it had to do with difference in room temp, but I wasn't sure

Hi, If you leave our living room door ajar and hold your hand against the gap, you feel a gale force wind blowing through the gap from the hall and yet when you stand in the hall you cannot feel any drafts. We have gas central heating, cavity wall and loft insulation, we also have double...

I have just laid ceramic floors tile in my kitchen using a sand/cement mix. The floor has gone down fine, but now I'm trying to clean them up to get rid of the dusty/cement marks and they wont come off. The floor must have been cleaned 6 or 7 times. Every time it is cleaned, there are light...

Is there anything i can treat a damp/wet concrete floor with before laying ceramic floor tiles. Also, is there anything I can add to a sand/cement mix that will make it set quicker. Cheers John