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I'm going to build my own shed. The floor will be framed using 2x4 pressure treated timbers with an 18mm WPB ply as the deck. I plan to insulate the walls and roof using rockwool. The wall cavity will only be 4in deep between the plasterboard on the inside and the exterior sidings. Is this...

OK, the start of my winter project. I'm building a playhouse for my 2yo & 4yo, which will be an 2.5mx2.5m shed with a raised platform inside. I know, starting an outdoor project in winter makes no sense but this has to be completed by March - i hope to get it closed in within a fortnight of...

I have recently laid a floating solid wood floor in my hallway and dining room, both these rooms have doorways leading onto the lounge. Currently the lounge has no floor covering, its just stripped back to the concrete floor. Obviously there is a fairly big difference in levels between the...

I bought solid oak flooring from wickes to replace the 8yr old laminate in our dining room, which although looking a little tired had actually lasted quite well. Following the instructions on the back of the pack I laid down a DPM onto the concrete floor, followed by the wickes fibreboard...

I am in the process of replacing my kitchen floor with a new concrete floor (The old one was only a few inches thick with no insulation, DPM or hardcore beneath). I intend to dig down the required depth and then fill as follows (top to bottom): 1. Concrete Screed, containing...

donut ask how but; I have dropped a kitchen knife in the bath which happened to land point first in the middle of the bath and has chipped away some of the plastic [plastic/resin/dunno what really, just know its not enamel!]. The chip is about 5mm across and 2-3mm deep. Is this repairable...

Due to the fact that the existing kitchen floor had sunk by approx 2in in the center [of a not very big room] and had large cracks in it I have ripped up the old concrete floor [which turned out to be not much more than 2-3in thick with big air gaps underneath where the floor had settled away...

hmm, I rewired the entire house last year [June 2004] except the kitchen and have spent the last year renovating the house. I intended to get a sparky round to check it out at the end of this year once the kitchen was complete but now with part P i'm not sure what to do! As I did the rest of the...

Please can we have a new forum where all the 'i've just bought a new carpet and puked all over it, how do I get the stain out' type queries can go. I find them slightly annoying as they are not DIY questions and are generally of no use to most people (until they happen to spill some sherry on...

I've installed a security light and mains powered doorbell. Both of these items are obviously near the front door and the cables fall quite conveniently near the gas meter cupboard where I also have access to the downstairs main ring. I intend to connect the light and doorbell to the ring via...

When quoting cable sizes does it matter if a cable is single core [one thick piece of copper] or stranded [multiple smaller strands]. Eg, i've added an electric towel rad to the bathroom and obviously need to bond it to the metal pipework in the bathroom. I have a reel of 10mm multi-strand [7...

OK, some time ago I rewired my house, with a sparky installing a new CU on the wall of my understairs cupboard and myself then putting in the new rings and lighting circuits by myself. All of the cables reached the understairs cupboard via the void under the wooden hallway floor. Unfortuntately...

Is there a limit to the number of extension sockets that you can run from the master socket [Telewest]? If you wish to have more extenions than the limit allows how can you get around the limit [if it is possible?]. I currently have a master socket downstairs and three extension sockets...

I really dont like the look of the cable box sat on the shelf under my TV and HiFi. The TV and HiFi are both a matching silver colour, whereas the Telewest box is an ugly black thing. What I would like to do is hide the telewest box somewhere else and run a long SCART or SVideo cable back to...

the cable for my lighting circuits is 1mm at the consumer unit, however at some point upstairs it turns into 1.5mm cable... is it nessisary to replace the 1mm cable [i really hope not!!]. As doing both lighting circuits in 1mm cable [its only a small house, 4 rooms on each floor] should be...

I have noticed several of my floor joists are infested with some form of wood boring insect, fortunately I was already planning on replacing a number of the joists due to wet rot [lucky me]. Obviously I will treat the new joists and the remaining original joists against wood boring insects -...

I'm in the process of replastering a number of walls in my house. I have no problems with the existing electrics and intended to simply put new board up over the existing wires and skim it as it was previously. I have checked in my DIY book and it states that electric cables need no further...

I'm in the middle of doing up my house and I want to check that the electrics in my bathroom are up to scratch as I have noticed that there is no cross bonding in the bathroom [so far I have just been replacing like for like]. I have copper H&C pipes coming straight up from downstairs buried...

I am currently redecorating my entire house, which includes replacing all the internal doors and architraving. All of the doors appear to be slightly different widths with various amounts of packing between the door frames and the brick walls, also none of the frames are square. As such I...