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Here's the story, about four years ago they rendered the front of this old cottage, they meshed it up using rabbit wire, scratch coated it, left it about a week then floated it, left it a few days then tyroleaned it. I had seen the wall was hair lined cracked or crazed really and I thought it...

Are you allowed to use an air admittance valve outside on the soil pipe instead of taking the vent pipe up and over the gutter, what I'd like to do is fit one on the equal T where it enters the house at first floor height.

Are these suitable as an internal block wall for fixing the wall plate to for taking the roof load. the wall will be 1.2m on top of the existing 9" solid.

The developer has put in his edging kerbs to the back edge of the new footpath into his site. where these cross my driveway he has raised the level of my existing drive by a 100 mm, is he allowed to do this? should he have dropped them to the existing levels?. the footpath is stranded at...

will the old ½ inch pipe, compression fitting nut & olive fit straight on to ( in to) a new 15mm compression equal tee. or do I have to get a female 15mm to ½ coupler and if so will the old compression nut fit the threads of the new coupler, this is the old stop cock compression nut that I...

the staff blue's I can get for £415.+ vat a 1000. I've just been in jewsons and the cheapest blue they can do is £520 + vat (not staff's) but he told me that some cheap blue's come with a lot of broken bricks so I could lose out by having a lot of waste. anyone know if you tend to get a lot of...

would a heater like this http://www.screwfix.com/prods/84978/Heating-Cooling/Electric-Heating/2000W-Portable-Oil-Filled-Convector-Heater be suitable to leave on 24/7 in a shed, I just want to keep the temperature about 10 celsius or there about's. any recommendations on a heater type ? does...

Pocket Taser Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Taser for their anniversary submitted this: Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little...

In a few months time I am hoping to raise the height of the rear roof by 900mm internally, height now inside is 1200mm, walls are 9 inch solid, cottage age is about 1870, question is, are building control going to want to see the footings.

looking for a belt sander, diy / light trade use, on a £200 budget for this tool, what make /size would you recommend.

10.15 pm They just tried to steal my old car, (1984) rung the near side door lock with a screw driver and pulled the wires from the ignition don't think they have busted the ignition lock thou but I can't really see its to dark to tell, any how I phoned it in to the police to report it as an...

The great shed robbery took place sometime between Tuesday night and Sunday morning the culprit / culprits came and went unseen and left no trace and did no damage, they almost emptied a 12 by 80 inch shelf of walnut stacked 2 & 3 deep that had nicely dried. I had gone in there this morning...