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Hi, I'm thinking of making alterations to my kitchen (see pic). It currently is accessed from an arch through longer/dining room to the right and has a non escape window on the left and an external back door on the right. I am considering separating the lounge and dining room with a wall, making...

My Ideal mini C28 is heating water but won't heat rads. Looked on internet for advice on how to 'reset' it but all we can find relates to a model with 2 lights and ours has 1 (green). Can anyone advise checks we can do ourselves before ringing our plumber? Thank you.

Hi, Can anyone diagnose the fault with this please? I'm assuming screen or invertor need replacing but don't know which. Sometimes the laptop works fine for hours with no problem but then it starts flickering slightly and gradually more lines appear until it looks like this. If I shut it down...

Earlier today some idiot with a digger cut a power line and all of the power in the area went off (including our tropical fish tank - argh!) and alarm systems went into overdrive driving us crazy all afternoon. The power eventually came back on but now we cannot get our central heating to work...

I'm desperate to get a play area finished for my kids. Their swing set and slide has been boxed in the garage for 2 years! We have cut down several trees and gravelled a large area this year so they do have somewhere to play. We just need to get the lawned area finished and then there's the...

I'm about to lay some block paving bricks around my front garden as a seperator between two different types of gravel. The soil is very hard and I thought I might get away with laying onto a bed of sand but I'd like to add a layer of dry mix on top just to stabilise it a bit more. Can I buy it...

Hi, I'm back again :D I'm trying to gather all info for the garden before the bank holiday so we can at least get the materials together and make a start. It's a big project with many areas so I may be picking your brains a lot, sorry! Anyway, we need to replace nextdoors fence to make the...

We have a garage in our garden that is an eyesore. It was originally built from breezeblock. I think this was then rendered to match the house. I guess that at some point the roof fell in because when we bought the house the whole garage had been clad in industrial metal cladding, probably to...

Can anyone recommend a fast acting, kill everything weedkiller? We want to clear our overgrown garden (about 1-3' high at moment) which is currently a mixture of thorns, grass, weeds, shrubs and sprouting bulbs and create a rubber chip play area for the kids & a bit of new lawn. I used B&Q's...

Can anyone help me please? Last summer we had builders in repairing our home after the big floods. We mentioned that we would like a new bathroom and one of them (a friend of my husbands family) said he could do it. So we paid him to do it (turned out to be a big mistake!). He persuaded us to...

Hi, does anyone know if it's possible to lay pavers over concrete? And if so - how? We have a drive thats half concrete/ half tarmac and want to gravel the garden to the side of it. Therefore we would like to lay two strips of pavers over the drive for the car to drive onto and infill with...

I know I'll be shot down in flames for wanting to do this but we are due to move back into our home next week following 6 months in a tiny caravan whilst flood damage was repaired. We have just the weekend between the builders leaving and the laminate flooring being laid/ furniture arriving...

No doubt you have answered this type of question many times before but I've already checked out a few of he answers and none of them seem to fit my query (worryingly!). We were flooded last year and currently have the cable from our satellite dish running externally to the caravan we are...

Our guttering was replaced around 3 years ago with pvc but our neighbour still has wooden ones (where she has them at all!). On the roof where hers meets ours the end of hers is all brittle and leaks. Unfortunately due to the wind direction/ gravity/ position of house we get the water from the...

Can anyone please help. We had walls that were painted with 2 coats of vinyl silk but wanted to wallpaper so we sized them with wallpaper paste. We were going to paper 3 walls but after finishing the chimney breast have decided that it will look too busy and opted just to do 2 walls. The problem...

Can aquapanel be used in place of plasterboard and dot and dabbed to a brick exterior wall? I understand that using this saves having to tank the area around the bath shower. Is it compatible with plasterboard if the rest of the bathroom is plasterboarded or will it all have to be aquapanel?

So ive been on the website for the pebble tiles and it says i may need a reinforced waterproof membrane under the border. No idea what or where to find this. It also says to use an high quality thinset mortar adheisive (I have chosen Mapei Keraquick because it says its ok for natural stone - is...

Hi, We would like to put a made to measure mirror in our bathroom on the top half of one wall to make it look bigger but I don't really want those ugly fixing screws with plastic caps. Can anyone advise how to attach the mirror to the wall with invisible fixings or some kind of mirror friendly...

Does anyone know how to install under bath striplighting and what is safe to use please? We have wanted an illuminated bath panel for ages but don't know how to do it.