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Shower room - Bonding + skim OR plasterboard + skim?
Hi everyone, I’m currently renovating a small shower room (2m x 1.7m) and have taken it back to brick. I’m getting different information in relation to the best way to go about plastering. The walls will be half tiled and half painted, with the tiles being approx 30x10 in brick formation, the shower area will be fully…
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Leather in a summer house
I plan on having a summer house that I will insulte with 20mm Kingspan board under a Shiplap finish. The base will be insulated and sit on a damp proof membrane. I will install a small stove and have mains electric. l'll have a small radiator which I'll set to come on for 2 hours each night when the weather is colde . My…
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DIY options for electric/fake wood burning stove?
This may seem a strange thing to ask, but as googling isn't pulling up much, I'm wondering if anyone has heard of such a thing? I'd hoped to install a woodburner but the chimney is too far gone to cost-effectively open up again. However, as it's a period house, I want to put something in the opening, just to be a focal…
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Crack on the wall
Hi, my kitchen wall had a crack on it, a shape of a door frame, fixed it two years ago using just a normal filler on it, the crack is back again, just found out it used to be a door before, I scraped where the crack is appearing, found stud timber with a 1-2 mm gape with the brick wall, can anybody advise on how I can fix…
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Detached Garage Crack
This is a crack that has been in the garage since we bought. At that time, we got a structural engineer to survey it and he said basically it’s likely been there since just after built and no evidence of recent movement. That was 9 years ago and we are thinking of selling. What do you make if this? it goes down the dash…
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Correct clip size for CT100 cable
I'm hoping someone will know this. I need to replace the TV aerial and will be putting new cable in at the same time. I have purchased the cable and what I thought were the right size clips (7mm). The cable is officially 6.8mm external diameter and a quick check with vernier calipers agrees, however the clips look a bit…
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thermostatic shower playing up
Well after a year or so of being hard to turn colder and me ignoring it as long as the temperature achieved was ok, the shower suddenly decided molten lava was the appropriate temperature! I took of the "turny bit" (advanced tecnical term there!) and have got it turning easier but there is about a 0.5 degree turn now…
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Neighbours alarm causing my boiler to click?
The combi boiler for my flat is in the same room I have been using as a home office while I work from home. The room is at the back of the building, looking onto an inner courtyard of sorts for the block of buildings. Predominantly residential buildings and store fronts on the ground floor, main road facing buildings. I've…
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Viessman Boilers
Dear all, What is your opinion on combi boilers Viessman? I have 2 in mind 1. VIESSMAN VITODENS 050-w 29 w 2. VIESSMAN VITODRN 100-w 30kw The difference in price £450. I'm interested on views. Further info- 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1 shower, mid-terraced house. Thank you
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Log cabins
Hi. Has anyone bought a log cabin from Cabins UK. I've been unable to find any reviews apart from on their website. Diolch yn fawr.
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Boundary query?
First off, I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question - so apologies if I'm in the wrong foram! We only have a chain link fence between us and next door so, to act as a privacy screen, I erected a fence a few inches my side of the chain link. My question is: is there any danger of this fence becoming seen…
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Garden DIY Pizza Oven - Great Lockdown Project!
If you buy a pizza oven DIY kit you are looking at a minimum of £1000 + cost of base + labour and it may be difficult getting heavy parts through the house if you have poor access to the rear garden. In 2016 we made a pizza oven, asa a family, from clay and sand on top of a base made from blocks. The all-in cost was £650.…
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Replacment lenses for sunglasses reccommendation?
Does anyone have a reccommendation of a replacement online service they have used to order up lenses for Sunglasses? I bought a fancy pair of sunnies about 5 years ago, and the are scratched to hell now, but looking to salvage them if possible!
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GF Toilet
I have seen many houses I like but most do not have a ground floor toilet. Would I need planning permission to add a small brick built lobby /boot area with toilet onto the back door. Leading from the kitchen? Has anyone done this and what was the cost. Many thanks
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Soundproofing front door
Hi all, Would appreciate some help with a fairly unique issue. Our front door is on a main road. While our neighbours have simply bricked up the door so it is only there for show, the previous owners of our house decided to build a secondary door, so we basically have two front doors with a foot of gap in the middle. It's…
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Garage living rooms
Can a single garage conversion which would be approx 4 metres by 2.3 metres be okay to use as a snug/lounge room? Wanting to make the rest of my downstairs open plan for multiple reasons and have a kitchen lounge diner but need somewhere to go when the washing machine is on or just to have a chill.
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Burning Smell from Vacuum Cleaner
Hi, Bit of a long story but we have a Shark 'lift-away upright vacuum cleaner with true pet' and have managed to get quite a bit of water in it (about two pints worth in the bin section). This happened over two weeks ago and I have cleaned filters, bin etc with cleaning wipes and left everything outside to dry. However,…
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Plaster or ceiling lights
Hi all... Some advice- I want add new lights on my ceiling (currently only one in the living room). I am also getting ceiling plastered. Which should I do first? Thank you! If i did do lights second- would I need to plaster again. The idea was to move in (live in it) and then decide where lights best will go.... Advice…
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Strengthen an inbuilt kitchen cupboard to reduce vibrations
Hi, I've got an inbuilt fridge / freezer and it's sitting on a rectangle box shelf 3 inches tall, which itself then just sits on the cupboard unit a little above the floor. The f/f makes a terrible vibration noise which I'd like to resolve, so I was wondering how best to do it? I was thinking of removing the front to the…
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Moved to a flat aerial socket loose and is not connected ?
HI i just moved to a flat. The TV reception is sporadic at best and we have been needing to re-tune it every few days. I have tried to look online and all the sockets seem to be wired in and the live wire connected ? Does this look normal ? Any advice would be great thank you.
