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Hi All - i'm currently planning a long thin deck attached to the front of the house - 2m x 10m. I want the deck boards to run perpendicular to the house so, one ledger board and 4 joists at 40mm centres, will run parallel to the house. The deck will only be a few inchs off the ground so I'm...

Hi All I'm going to be laying floating engineered wood floor on a screed in my living room. At one end of the room is a bi fold door. The planks will go perpendicular to the door recess. I was wondering about the best way to finish this section off. When laid the floor will sit just 1 or 2 mm...

Hi DIYnotters .... plumbing in me new bathroom ... now onto the basin waste ... there is an existing lead waste pipe going through the wall which is rock solid and going no-where. Hence i would like to get a a connection onto or into the lead pipe... i have bought a plastic compression joint but...

Hi all - I'm fitting a concealed shower and just thought I'd see if I can get some confirmation that I'm attacking it in the correct manner. The shower ... https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/astoria-traditional-concealed-shower-valve-inc-8-head-with-arm The valve is vertical with two taps. To...

Hi All .... I am assuming that it is a coincidence but yesterday we had our gas metre moved. Since the reconnection. When the boiler is supposed to be heating up the tank, it is actually turning the central heating on. This led me to the Drayton mid position actuator. it appears that the...

We,ve just had a 5ft garden wall built and rendered ... it doesn't have a damp course... the first two courses of block are below ground level.... i'm going to backfill a flower bed up to these first two courses but below the render level. Might be a daft question but should I protect the...

Evening all - planning on swapping a radiator for a smaller one this weekend. I thought it might be worth explaining what my plan is on here in case i'm going to make a major cock up. The house is on three floors and the radiator in question is on the middle floor. The central heating is via...

Hello - i've got some solid planks from an oak tree - and i'm now starting to think about making a rustic oak kitchen table. I've sawn the planks down so they are 7 inches wide. The problem is they are 2inches think and slightly warped. Once attached to a table frame my idea is to hire a belt...

Anyone ever used Silvapor ? The surveyors say our cavity is too narrow (30mm) and can't be insulated. Been reading about Silvapor - you knock into the cavity at the top of your house, construct some type of hopper then poor the stuff in. Anyone with any experience of this stuff - good or bad ?

We been away for a month. The washing machine is in the shed. Now when i've turned the water back on water is coming out from under the machine. It is a hot and cold feed but we have only ever used the cold feed. I haven't had the back off yet but a reckon some internal connector has blown...

I've got some old chunky rafters which i am planning to use to build a raised platform / treehouse for the kids. Any suggestions what is the best way to treat this timber for a long outdoor life ?

I am plumbing a toilet into my shed but haven't yet got beyond the head scratching stage. The soil pipe comes up out of a solid floor directly under the back of the toilet (close coupled variety). There seems little or no room to put a tee in the soil pipe so that I can then put a air...

I'm fitting a toilet in my shed and there is little room between the outflow of the toilet and where the soil pipe comes out of a solid floor. To join the two i'm going to use a 90 degree pan connector. Not sure if this is a stupid question but is it ok to boss a waste pipe into a white...

i am soon to be building my shed/office roof. my three layers are going to be 9mm wpb plywood on top of this i plan to put that cheap polystyrene sheets for insulation and on top of this i plan to put box profile roofing sheets. now i think there should probably be a vapour barrier (?)...

i've posted this on roofing as well because not sure which it fits --- i'm gonna be making a ridge beam out of two pieces of 4 x 2 - i was told on this site a couple of weeks ago to use a scarfe joint to join the two. I've looked it up on t'internet and it seems to be a very shallow...

i'm gonna be making a ridge beam out of two pieces of 4 x 2 - i was told on this site a couple of weeks ago to use a scarfe joint to join the two. I've looked it up on t'internet and it seems to be a very shallow diagonal cut. Question number one - Any information on how to join the...

i've built the walls for my new 3.6 x 7.6m outbuilding and now i am in deep thought about the roof ---proper diy - zero progress outside - 100% head scratching inside. here is the basic idea for my roof truss from a book i've been following (building green) however i have changed the...

i've built the walls for my new 3.6 x 7.6m outbuilding and now i am in deep thought about the roof ---proper diy - zero progress outside - 100% head scratching inside. here is the basic idea for my roof truss from a book i've been following (building green) however i have changed...

I'm building a 3.5 x 7m shed in my garden. I'm up to the top of the walls - single skin blockwork. 1. is 100mm x 75 mm wall plate the norm ? 2. the top of my wall isn't quite as flat as a snooker table - do i bed my wall plate on a layer of mortar ?

is it possible to do ? i need to line my chimney - my dads got about 24 foot of the stuff spare but my chimney is at least 30ft - i was thinking i could maybe buy another six ft and connect the two pieces together... is this sensible...... and how would i do it ?