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Hi, I have a brick built detatched single skin garage and the inside is very dusty and has Efflorescence on the walls so I would like to paint it to try and limit the dust with some exterior paint. What is the best way to do this to avoid any issues with the Efflorescence making the paint...

Hi, I wondered if somebody could help me with a couple of questions. I plan to lay a few concrete flags in my back garden, do I need to put a slurry on them or with them not being granite is it ok? If so could somebody point me in the direction of a good premixed slurry or is it best to make my...

Hi, I had a patio laid last year and all seemed fine during the summer but in the winter I noticed a few of the flags could move and I could pick them up, then over the winter some of the flags became raised (see picture). I have taken some of them up now and added a picture showing what the...

Hi, We had a planter built last year and as you can see from the picture where the walls join it has cracked. It appears that the back wall has moved backwards. The house is a new build built around 18 months ago and where the wall was built last year the ground was new and very soggy which it...

Hi, I have got a problem with our sliding patio door, the handle won't go up to be able to lock the door. There is an allen key bolt which if I press it in the handle will slide up but it just pops back out again. I have attached a couple of pictures and circled the allen key bolt...

Hi, We have a chrome door handle on on the exterior of our front door and it has some white marks that have which have appeared which I guess the weather has caused. Could anybody recommend a way to get rid of these? Is there a certain polish that is best? Thanks, Danny

Hi, I have just painted my back gate in black gloss paint a couple of weeks back. I have been having a bit of work done on the driveway so the gate needed a wipe but after wiping it when it dries you can see mark where the water was. Is there anything to use to stop these marks or is it...

Hi, My external drain has 3 pipes going to it, one from the gutter/bathroom, one from the washing machine and one from the kitchen sink. Pretty much all 3 of them splash everywhere as you can see from the picture. Could anybody give me some advice on the best way to fix this...

Hi, I'm looking to get a couple of quotes this weekend so I can have power in the garage. My current setup is a consumer unit with 4 circuits all being used. From what I have read on here it sounds like this is going to be needed to be replaced. A bit of info, the garahe is about 6...

Hi, I'm getting some pointing done soon and I'd like to replace some bricks where a door was bricked up and the brick match used is a completely different colour. Has anybody got any idea what this brick is called or how I would describe it. If it helps the house is about 60 years old...

Hi, My grandma had a concrete driveway installed a couple of years ago with a couple of paths coming off it. When the main path to the house was iced up/frozen, to clear the ice she broke it up by hitting the ice with the other end of a wodden broom and then scraped the broken ice with a...

Hi, I am looking at getting my driveway block paved. Permeable block paving has been suggested but other than the environment benefity I can't find much info about how it compares against normaly block paving when it comes to maintenance/weeds growing through gaps and is it expected to last...

Hi, Is this the sort of thing you would get from a reclamation centre? It's a pretty basic rectangular gate post top but as you can see part of it's cracked off. If you look at it from this picture there seem to be some metal in it so it looks like more than just a concrete slab...

Hi, I was wondering if somebody could tell me what this: It was a copper colour, but we got this stuff painted on the tarmac drive and they painted over the pipe so it is now that black/grey colour. The reason I'm asking is we have been in the house 3 years, never needed to do...

Hi, In a couple of months I'm am looking to get my driveway re-done so this will be an ideal time to have power ran to my garage. I won't be doing any of this work myself but I'm just trying to work out roughly what is going to be needed. My current consumer unit has 4 breakers which...

Hi, Is there a recommended size conduit for 1mm flex to run through. It's only a small run through a cavity wall but I thought it best to protect it. Would conduit with an internal diameter of 10mm be too tight? Thanks, Dan

Hi, I'd like to hang a punchbag in my garage. The garage I have is one like this - all the tips on the internet I think are more aimed at the stronger looking brick built ones or ones that are part of the house because they talk about wooden joists accross the roof which my garage...

Hi, For some reason the outside tap at my house is plumbed into the hot water supply and I want to plumb it into the cold. I have had a look where the tap is spurred off from on the hot water pipe and right below it is a cold water pipe so is it just a simple job of turning the water off...

Hi, We have had an indoor wooden step tiled just over a week ago and this morning I have noticed that there are some cracks in the grout. A bit of information about the the job: The step is about 1.5 inches high and roughly 1.8mx0.3m and it's beech wood screwed down to the concrete floor...

Hi, Everytime we turn one partiulcar bedroom light on in the house it trips the fuse for all the lights. We have no other problems with any of the other lights, just this one. We had noticed sometimes when it was on it would flicker but now it has got worse. Any ideas what the most likely...