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Please help me find a good builder in North London
We want to build an extension to the back and garage conversion to our property but are finding it very difficult to get a good trustworthy builder in North London. If you know of anyone please could you provide me with details.
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Cleaning Stone wall?
Hi there, I have an old stone garden wall and when young my DDs painted our door number on (it was useful at time as only have a side door so number couldn't be seen) and now I would like to remove this. Is there some product/method of doing this? Thanks.
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Cheapest Silver Washing machine with digital display?
As per post - i was looking at indesit WIE157S but hear its comming to the end of its line... any others?
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White coming out of my brick work
I've a 1930s house, and just noticed some white powder coming out of some of the lower brick work near to the floor on the outside of my house. What can I do to stop this or clean it up ?? Would they clear water repellant paint be of any use?? I also had cavity wall installation last year could that be to blame?
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Walls are a mess
Hi, The walls in my living room are an absulute mess. Bumps, gashes, grooves etc because of general wear and due to the fact a stone fireplace used to sit against one. I've been thinking of having a painter and decorator come in to do the living room and was just thinking if a painter and decorator would actually be able…
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Central Heating Installation - Leeds
Hi, I am in the process of buying a house that needs central heating and plumbing for a new bathroom (including a waste pipe - the toilet is currently downstairs). How much do you think this would cost? Also, can anyone recommend someone good to do the job? I have had a look at Rated Tradesmen, but it has had some negative…
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Wickes Kitchen
We have finally decided on a Wickes kitchen What should we expect to pay for fitting?
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HammerPaint
I have a very large metal fence which needs painting. I would prefer to buy a 5 litre tin of Hammerite black hammered paint. Where are the cheapest and best places / website to find it ? I think B & Q was about £50 ( I was hoping that might have a some sort of sale on their paint sometime) . Any other ideas ?
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garden fence renewal
My neighbours wants replace the garden fence between our properties with a new,slightly higher one, at their own expense.:D We have no real objection but are a bit concerned because the fence is in the deeds as being ours and we have kept it maintained for 15yrs. What can we do to protect ourselves against any future…
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Cleaning Decking
After the winter and now we have had a couple of nice days thought it was about time the i cleaned the decking. Could anybody tell me what the best thing is for cleaning decking as we have only had it down for one year. Was thinking of jet washing it but wasnt sure what detergent was the best to use on wood. Anyone got any…
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Joiner or Builder and putting in a new window
Hi, we need some work done on our house - basically a 3 stud partitions putting up to divide one room into 2 and to create a small utility room downstairs. - This would also need a new window knocking through to the side of the house. From my internet research it would seem I don't need planning permission - but I cant…
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Rotary clothes line/airer
Hi, We're currently doing up our back garden and are looking at getting a rotary clothes line/airer We've put a patio down this weekend and will be digging up the lawn and reseeding it later in the summer as we're extending it and the current "lawn" is far from flat Anyway, I've seen a few rotary airers on the net this…
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Shower Screen - Broken Pivot
Hi all I've got a shower screen above my bath which is made up of two panels of frameless glass. The panels are joined by a full length metal fitting with a pivot at the top and bottom to hold in the adjoining panel. (Hope that makes sense :confused: ) When I was cleaning it last week, one panel fell away - the pivot part…
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Help!!! Cant find the key to the utility door and its Locked..
Hardly ever use the door from the utility to the garden in the winter and now its come to this time of year we need to get out there, However this weekend weve found that the key is missing and cant open it as its locked. :eek: hubbys been to diy store this morning thinking it would be easy enough to just take the old lock…
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possibley Asbestos drainpipe disposal
I took some old downpipes from an out building to the local dump and they say they are asbestos! They wont take them..... Anyone know how to dispose of them before i ring the council and get charged a fortune.
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I wanna new driveway.
Our driveway is fairly long and slopes slightly downwards. It leads to the garage and then across to the front of the house. At the moment it is concreted but the top of the drive is crumbling away so looks horrible. The choices we can think of are: Block paving (very expensive 9k) Crete print ?? Pattern paving ??…
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tv signal booster
I have had a freeview box for a while but recently have trouble viewing the ITV channels because of a poor signal. There is no problem with viewing any channel on the normalTV or most of the freeview channels. I have been told that one can get a signal booster, I'm not sure where... Does anyone have any experience of this…
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getting carpets up
We have just bought some carpet and waiting for it to be delivered. I have had a look at the stuff we are replacing. The one in the bathroom is hessian backed on underlay so that is not too bad, so is the hall. But the bedroom is rubber backed with by the looks no underlay or paper down. Now I have helped get a carpet up…
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Lead Pipe Replacement - Recommendations
Please help simplify my life :huh: I need to replace the lead mains pipe coming in from the external stopvalve to my kitchen. I'm in South London so if anyone knows a good company that can do this please PM me. I can narrow down my search massively then :) Thank You! Oh and while I'm here, anyone had this done recently?…
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3 faulty Rayburn 499ks in 10 years!HELP
I have been having problems with Rayburn for 10 years the boilers always leak no.1 installed 03.09.96 leaked 04.01.98 had to have a complete new Rayburn no.2 installed 16.01.98 leaked 29.05.01 had another new Rayburn no.3 installed 13.06.01 leaked 11.03.07 the boiler had split on the weld Boiler replaced in this one…
