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Hi, we are going to tile two small external areas up to our front door with Victorian tiles. We are going to dig out, put some hardcore in, followed by about 4 inch deep concrete (will add some micro fibres to the mix). Let it dry out for a few weeks, and then tile upon a decoupling membrane...

Hi, we live in a terraced house on a hill, that has the ground floor elevated off the pavement by a metre or so. We have a very small area outside the front that we would potentially like to plant up so looks better. The area currently has broken concrete. And is in front of our cellar that is...

Hi, we have this external wall and the mortar is discolouring and becoming slightly flakey (more so in the bottom right of the picture). It is a Victorian terraced but the previous owners rebuilt this wall (some reason used smaller bricks and massive mortar joints). Anyway, we want to render...

Hi, my dad had some work done to move a light and the lining paper, and other old wall paper underneath, was cut away. He can’t afford a decorator so I was going to attempt to make it look less messy for him. I don’t want to have to strip the wall, so was wanting to just fill, sand and repaint...

Hi, I would like to build a shed to store bikes, trailer, animal hutch etc. Was going to use solid base and timber studs with membrane and cladding etc. With some floor and wall anchors for security. Was hoping to do a green roof too. The space is limited so was going to be about 6m x 1.5m and...

Hi, We've had the whole of our house replastered (a mixture of skimming and dry lining and the bar plaster is between 5-10 months old). We are currently preping it for painting and have sanded the bare plaster walls on the 1st floor. Reading some posts here it says you shouldn't do that as...

Hi, We've just had lots of new timber skirting / architraves fitted and we want to paint it mainly with white gloss. Do we need to treat the scew/nail heads beofre filling and priming? Someone told me to do the following: 1. Use knotting compund directly on the screw heads and any...

Hi, I've got to run some 15 mm hot/cold feeds in a stud before the plasterers come in in preparation for the plumber to fix the wall hung basin. I'm gonna use plastic pipes, then a 90 degree elbow, some more plastic pipe before attaching to a flexi monbloc hose with a compresison fitting...

Hi, we were going to lay laminate in our kitchen but on the advice of some posters we are going for tiles. Half the floor is currently 18mm ply direct on to the joists. Reading on here it says 18mm might have too much flex for tiles. Is it advisable to take it up and replace with 25mm ply or...

We've fitted a cloakroom to our kitchen and where the basin can go there is a sold and or a stud (about 70mm thick excluding plasterboard). We're gonna hang a wall hung basin on the stud and get one of those chrome plated bottle traps for the waste. The basin will have a monobloc basin...

Hi, This is my first post - I had a look at some older posts and the sticky's but I couldn't find the right answer/advice so hoping someone can help and apologies if it has been answered before :) Basically we are refitting our kitchen (it is a rectangle shape about 7*3m). The entire...