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laying a 900mm block paving path around a circular swimming pool. One side of the path is the concrete swimming pool the other is a timber retaining wall for the garden. Would you recommend an edging course on either or both sides or not ?

just errected a pergola with 4 100mm x 100mm posts 2.4 high. one of the posts has started to bend. Any ideas how to correct it warping ?

need to render internal cheeks of an old fireplace to make good a recently exposed opening. Thinking a 3:1 mix of render to withstand heat of real fire. Need to dab out by 40mm so thinking that is too much just for render alone. any advice on heat resistant board ?

I've had a new room built with an 18mm weyroc moisture resistant chipboard floor screwed down. I'm looking to fit a karndean floor and the fittinmg instructions say I need to put down a 6mm ply floor first. Has anyone layed a karndean floor directly onto a chipboard floor without the ply? The...

putting down an 8mm laminate floor in a through living room. There's a difference in height half way along the living room floor by about 5mm. I'm laying on top of an existing wooden floor. Any suggestions as to the best way to take up the gap? I have a thin moisture resistant underlay to put...

I have a standard consumer unit with lighting and socket MCB's positioned along the buzz bar. I have an RCD (80amp) protecting 2 MCB's both 32A - 1 for kitchen sockets and 1 for sockets elsewhere and boiler. I have just fitted a new induction cooker rated 45A with a 10mm cable direct back to its...

I'm adding a 3 gang light switch to control ceiling lights/wall lights/ another wall light and placing a 2 way switch at the far end of the room. I'm installing 3c + earth wire between the switches. My question is do I need to install 1 x 3c + earth wire for each gang ? All need to be switched...

built a new extension with a concrete slab floor(insulation underneath). Room has a set of french doors and a back door. Now about to lay tiles but want to know how to bridge the 100mm cavity which exists at the french doors and back door. Don't want to compromise dpc.

I've had a vokera boiler for just over 2 years. Had 4 call outs from engineers, for various reasons in that time, but the latest isn't covered as now out of warranty. I have a pool of water forming just below the plastic condensate syphon box. It leaks down through the boiler and causes it to...

building a single storey block extension and at the stage of blocking up. Am I right in thinking the inner skin is 1 course higher than the outer skin to accommodate the the wall plate and trusses ? To achieve somewhere near 2400 mm height I'm going 11 courses inner skin (2475mm) and thinking...

I'm building an extension with a concrete floor over an existing soil pipe which is encased in concrete. Where the soil pipe leaves the new build I want to add a rain water gully. How easy is it to remove concrete outer casing externally, to expose enough pipe to cut and add a branch off to my...

located an alkathene water pipe underground and managed to compress part of it with my breaker. Didn't go all the way through but managed to leave a scar. Should this be replaced or is it best left alone. Definitely no water coming out !

I'm building a single storey extension with block walls. The external skin in 7n 100mm concrete blocks and the internal skin thermalite 100mm blocks. My question is, what mortar mixture is required for both skins ? I was going to use a 1:5 for both with a plasticiser but wondered whether they...

I'm adding a double pole socket to a ring main. The socket has 1 live, 1 neutral and 2 earth connection points. Do I need to connect to both earth terminals.