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Hi, Trying to determine whether I should use 6mm or 8mm bars to create a lintel repair above a patio door. I had thought 8mm, but since read that thicker isn't always better for crack stitching because of flexibility. The house I bought 4 years ago has two cracks at the back, one stepped crack...

Have a garage. Corrugated steel external wall is rotting. Need to clad it with weather proof cladding that won't rot. Here been to GAP plastics. They recommend 2.4 m x 1.2 m, 3 mm thick white uPVC sheeting. This would certainly keep the weather off and preserve the steel corrugation, but would...

I've stud walled a door way and theres big gaps round the edge, especially where the old door frame had wooden wedges. can I just use expanding foam? Can foam be cut back and then taped and plastered over by a plasterer? Thanks

I feel like I've written about this a million times, but here goes.... When I moved in my property 8 years ago, I had tha bathroom retiled and the bathroom wall replastered. It's an exterior brick wall in a victorian house. It then transpired the tiles were fixed directly to the plaster, with...

I feel like I've written about this a million times, but here goes.... When I moved in my property 8 years ago, I had tha bathroom retiled and the bathroom wall replastered. It's an exterior brick wall in a victorian house. It then transpired the tiles were fixed directly to the plaster, with...

Hi, i've repaired this section of wall and built up with sand/cement.. i need to bring up as a finish filling a depth of around 2.5cm and then paint same as rest of the wall... whats the best method? Thanks in advance!

Hi, What would be the best way (or is there a tool) to remove the wood paneling from the bathroom wall, please? Stuff like knives and wall-paper strippers just bend, if I get any leverage, and my crowbar is too thick to get in behind each panel. I'm presuming it was glued on. I can't see any...

I'm designing a bookcase to be fit into a bungalow as the image attached. The entire thing is made from MDF and weights collectively 180KG. There is a base cabinet sat on the floor, end panels sat on the floor, 25mm thick worktop sat on the end panels and cabinet and battens all around the...

I live in an 1950s ex local authority house with walls that are made of what appears to be aggregate mixed with concrete and I need advice on drilling. It’s not smooth pebblecrete as I would call it as it is lumpy stones of approx 20mm+ across loosely glued together with a sheen on concrete...

Selco Paris Matt stuff, so 15mm MDF. Presumably I clamp panels and screw from inside carcass outwards into end clad panels, but no screws provided. No recommended clad fixing hole positions indicated on inside of carcass. What edge distances are recommended? Only a 16mm void so trying to lose...

Not sure which forum is right for this - happy for mods to move it as needed... I have coaxial cables from a sat dish entering the ground floor of my house in two places, neither of which is where I want - so I plan to move or remove them. Looking from outside, both cable ingress points have a...

My wife and I are about to complete on our first home this week. We are looking to completely redecorate the whole house and one of the things we have been looking at doing is widening the space between the two rooms picture below. I wasn't able to get much information out of the seller...

Hey Guys. So I did have a question up on another part of the forum and uploaded content and pictures there. But i have decided to start a new thread, to make it easier to see and see my mistakes. Here goes. The Mrs wanted to change the flat, and have a space for her plants where the cat does...

Or possibly, does anyone make them at all these days? My wall units are a bit tired but I have limited headroom, the sheds all seem to only have quite tall wall units. Can someone point me at a source for shorter units? Cheers, Dain

I'm in the process of removing wallpaper from the living room so we can re-wallpaper. Doing so, I've discovered a 1-2cm line running horizontally along the wall, about 1/4 of the way down - does anyone know what this could be?

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...

Should a strip of the existing screed be cut back down to the concrete base before building the new blockwork up, or just build the new blockwork up on top of the screed?

Hello all, I've ordered some blinds from Blinds2Go which require selfi-fitting. I live in a new build property and the window frame, to my basic knowledge and basic exploratory skills (drilling a couple of holes) leads me to believe that there is 15mm plasterboard with around a 10mm gap...

As you'll see from the below pictures, my cooking hob has an extractor fan. What the kitchen installers failed to do (before I owned the house) was to install a pipe and a vent from the extractor fan hood. This obviously leads to undesirable problems when cooking, more noticeably in the winter...

Hi, I'm a novice building a small natural stone (Cotswold) wall with recessed seating – c. 4m long wall, double skin. I have about 200 stones, various shapes, sizes. My plan is to do footing, then get cracking. My questions are: 1.Which mortar do I use? I want it to be light coloured to...