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https://imgur.com/a/HhTEN2l - IMAGE Hi all, I hope you can help - I'm reasonably handy with small DIY jobs but know nothing about building work and so please be kind if I sound stupid! I'm hoping to remove a wall with a view to accessing and boarding the eaves and wanted some advice. From the...

Hi all I'm moving into a new house, we got it for a bargain because it's in pretty poor condition. Floor plan Photos I'm not sure about the order in which we should do work to it. The 'essentials' that need doing are: -Rip up the carpet and restore wooden floors (DIY) -Repair/replace any...

Hi all Our new build walls are all plasterboard front, any exterior facing walls have a very small gap between that and the thermalite brick. Can anyone recommend a fitting to use in this case? This would be for TV mounting, book shelves and other heavy load bearing things. Thanks Renz

I'm in the process of getting the nursery ready with my partner... I'm 35 weeks pregnant and on a budget so trying to install laminate flooring ourselves (my partner is doing the actual physical parts and I'm doing the calculations). I was measuring up and I can only get 2 boards along a row...

Hi all We're moving into a new victorian terraced house that needs a lot of work - double glazing, heating, floorboard etc - but the main thing we want to do is a kitchen side extension. From the sale of our previous house, we will end up with around £75k and the idea is to make sure we get the...

We have a single skin coal house on the rear of our property, now used to store the washer and dryer. It is currently accessed from the rear door to the house. It works but it is a small room and when we have children it would be much-needed additional space. The room is already powered by a...

Hi I have looked around the net and not been able to find an example of the situation I am in and would appreciate some advice. We decided to expose a boarded up fireplace in our house (Victorian terrace). Started by removing the skirting board and plaster in the (assumed) centre of the hole...

I’m currently redoing an old house, I am abit of an amateur when it comes to electrics. The decorators have taken the light switches off and I have since bought new ones. In the master bedroom there is a double switch that controls the dressing room and the bedroom (there is another single...

Hello everyone, I'm currently in the middle of renovating my kitchen and dining room. I'm wanting to remove the door frame that sits below the stairs. It doesn't seem to have a lintel that goes across in to the brick either side. However, there are 3 bits of wood that look like support or...

I’m building a set of driveway gates, each leaf is 1600mm wide by 2m tall. I have made the frame from 4x2 PSE, with a mid rail, which gives me two panels to drop some match boarding into. These panels are around 1400x825mm. I intended to add some bracing around 45 degrees, but it looks...

Hi, I need to increase lengh of the existing hatch in order to fit a new new door. I am attaching graphic. https://ibb.co/p0jjPyW - The green in the middle is existing hatch space. - Thick Black bars are Big Joists. - A bit smaller gray bars are smaller joists. - The red square is the...

Based on prior diy experience of furniture self-assembly only, I have set myself on an ambitious project of laying amtico click smart lvt throughout the house except bathrooms and kitchen although might bring someone in to do the stairs. I’ve read up forum posts on the topic and my plan is: 1)...

Hi thought i'd set about Painting the inside of the garage white as i've seen a few threads and thought it would brighten up the garage. I've bought a couple of tins of White Deco Aldi Masonry Paint. I've not long started and i've already used 1/2 a tub and i've hardly got anywhere :eek: ...

Hi everyone. I'm about to embark on a complete bathroom refit (very small bathroom approx. 3.2sqm) that will have a corner shower with full height tiling in 8mm porcelain tiles (approx 100mm across). The remainder of the room will be 9mm porcelain hexagon tiles (approx. 250mm across) up to a...

I'm currently doing a bit of decorating and the keypad is looking a little discoloured. Considering the wall around the keypad is going to be bright white I'm looking to give the Keypad housing a little TLC and remove the plastic casings to touch up. Vain I know but cannot afford a new system at...

Originally SSE were supplying my electricity. They replaced my meter with a smart meter and also gave me a separate device displaying my readings. Last summer I switched to Economy Energy who recently were taken over by OVO. I got an email from OVO asking for meter readings but when I checked it...

Hi Guys, Could anyone please assist me on the best method for filling in gaps between coving corners. Sadly, my plasterer could not level the walls or ceilings in my home when re-plastering the home. The condition of the walls and ceiling were much worse and out of level by far, though, things...

First post so bear with me. We’ve recently moved into this house and have decided we want to knock down the wall that separates the bathroom from the toilet. It’s and ex council house on the end of a terrace. There is no wall below it, in the loft you can see the plastererboard then there is a...

Hi Guys, I just nail gunned my skirting and architraves around the home and now would like to fill the small holes. I was contemplating using a ready filler such as Polyfilla all-purpose or Gyproc Easi-Fill as I have heard this is just as good. But I worry this is only for use on plaster...

In doing various (smalish) jobs on the house, I've discovered a few 'funnies' presumably from when the house was constructed 72 years ago. - Partition wall between bathroom and bedroom built with bricks on their sides - Concrete fence post used as lintel - Metal advertising board (circa 1940s)...